Students are being encouraged to fill in detail, listen, share, and manage materials. Student drawings are being elaborated on with greater detail. Each student has been given an opportunity for creative input, to include repeating shapes and make animals or spring-like scenes. Grades 2 through 5 have started worksheets designed for line and shape expression. The highlight of these designs is the addition of values for black, white, gray or color.
Students have the opportunity to express their own invented shapes and line schemes.
Fifth graders have been given the opportunity to make a printing plate and produce a short series of prints. For many students this was their first attempt at printmaking. Many of the students were successful and their work was displayed in the Kiva. The final grouping for after-school art will be posted during the week of April 2, 2001. Students who signed up in September, but have not yet attended, will be given a schedule of dates for the after-school sessions.