Leaves, leaves, and more leaves!

Our stamped leaf trees were created by kindergarteners.

Here are a couple of chalk pastel leaf projects from my fourth graders.

These glitter leaves projects were created by 3rd graders.  They took forever to make, but I love how they turned out.  

Fifth graders made these outlined leaves.  

Tree Themed Projects

 Fourth Grade Fauve Trees

 When March rolls around it feels like the long winter months are never going to end.  We worked on these tropical paintings while listening to ocean waves on my iTunes.  This helped set the mood to bring us to a "staycation" in our classroom.  

Winter Projects

 Second grade Oil Pastel Snowmen

 Third Grade Oil Pastel Snowmen

 Kindergarten Snow Friends

 Fifth Grade Glitter Snowflakes

 First Grade Picasso Inspired Snowmen

First Grade Polar Bears

 Fourth Grade Eating Snowflakes

 Kindergarten Snow Globes

First Grade Polar Bears

Trees, trees, and more trees...

My first year of teaching I made the mistake of creating a "Santa" themed project.  I had one kindergartener that shouted out "He aint weel!"  I was shocked and responded right back, "He is too weel."  After this project was over I promised myself, no matter how awesome the project, I will never do a "Santa" themed project again.  Instead I try to have each grade do some sort of a Christmas tree.    

4th graders completed this patterned tree.

 3rd graders completed this Christmas music project.

5th grade complete this Picasso inspired tree.

Van Gogh Inspired Sunflowers

 Here are a few 4th grade Van Gogh inspired sunflower.  We used marbleized construction paper, black glue and oil pastels.