Polar Bear Collage

Kindergarteners used their drawing skills to fill the sky with beautiful snowflakes, and fine motor skills to tear paper into cuddly POLAR BEARS.

Pinch Pots

Another year, another batch of Kindergarten Pinch Pots!!!

Start by making your clay into a nice round ball....

Then hold your clay in one hand and give me a 'thumbs up' with the other...

Then poke your thumb way down into your clay ball (but not all the way through!)...

When you take your thumb out, you'll see you have a bowl...

But that hole is TOO TINY!  I could only fit 2 M-n-Ms in it!  

we need to fix that....

Do you know how to pinch?

Let's Pinch, Pinch, Pinch the sides of our bowl to make that hole much bigger.

We can fit about 100 M-n-Ms in these bowls!

Now to fire, glaze, fire again.... kindergarten parents, if you're reading this, pretend to be surprised when you open your Christmas Present....

Penguins!!!

The Kindergarten students have been hard at work, painting oil pastel resist snowy scenes, with potato print penguins - they are so CUTE!

Collage Trees!

The first graders printed background sheets with cardboard to make snowflakes, painted green textured papers, made shoe print papers....we were buuuusssssyyyyy.  Then we put them all together into these great tree collages!  They did an amazing job...

The Transitional Kindergarteners even got into the action, using hole-punchers for snow, fiskars shaper punchers for ornaments, and the scraps from the first graders painted papers for big triangle trees!