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If you watch the news then you know we have had record rain here in North Texas for the month of May. The gardens are growing in and outside of the classroom, but enough is enough! My fifth graders just finished these amazing one day pinch pots.... They used Sax underglaze with a clear coat to finish last week.  It is hard to get the clay to dry out and find a non stormy day to run the kiln this month! We have had 3 inches of rain on Saturday.... not to mention the amount falling right now.  my little garden is lush... but  it needs some sunlight to ripen the tomatoes.  Third Grade is working on their last project.... We looked at Rufino Tamayo's   paintings and drew repeated slices with oil pastels. 12 x 18 white sulfite paper Sax tempera cakes love these...I know I pinned this idea from Pinterest but can't find the pin.. Thanks to whoever originally posted this...

Kindergarten's annual Mothers's Day bouquets are blooming from the April Showers.  We had a record amount of rain here in North Texas last month.  The lakes in our county are finally full. Hopefully the drought will go away.  The kiddo's have not been out to recess very much,  but a garden has bloomed in the classroom and my personal garden has too.  I even have tomatoes! We have created Mother's day flower sculptures. We have Painted flowers in first grade....check out Laura at Painted Paper  for fabulous ideas.  We have also created Clay pinch pot flower vases. Second grade students are studying plants so these sunflower collages and pinch pots worked well cross curricular.  Check out Mrs. Knights site for more of these awesome creations. I had enough clay left in my cabinet for 5th grade to make a second project. I can't wait to see how these turn out...  Stay tu...

The circle themed #bigartday15 art show has been installed at my school with the help of a few awesome PTA moms and myself,  but an overnight ice and snow storm has delayed our school event! So here goes....a virtual art show!  Let's start with the littlest....Kindergarten created Monet's pond using painted paper on 10 inch cardboard painted circles.  I loved coming up with this new lesson and they were all successful.   see my previous link about this fun lesson!  I used last years most popular blog post for the Concentric Circle lesson in  1st grade with these little artists. Look how bright and colorful they are.  The 2nd grade and 4th grade created Circle Weaving.  2nd grade's project came from the super successful lesson   over at  Cassie Stephens 's amazing blog.  4th graders not only wove in a circle, but they made the clay looms for their weaving.  If you...