Congratulations to those students who represented Westview. Kindergarten classes have been using printmaking and painting techniques to make a variety of collage papers. Students will create dinosaur collages with these papers. As part of our focus on the art and culture of Japan, Westview hosted Janice Harrington from the Champaign Public Library. She told a wonderful and engaging Japanese folktale to 1st and 2nd grade students.
Westview classes continue to study Japanese sumi paining using authentic materials.
First, second and third graders have been painting the Japanese numbers from one through ten. Fourth graders have created paintings based on the phonetic equivalent of their names in Japanese. Students have had the opportunity to see artifacts from Japan throughout the art units. These include objects brought back from Japan as well as those provided by the Krannert Museum s Resource Center. We try to keep the site as current as possible, so you may want to check it periodically.