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.  

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.

Patterned Holiday Trees

Here are a few trees the kindergarten completed right before Christmas break.

I'm on a swing!

Christmas Trees Up Close

This was a super easy and cute holiday project my 1st grade made.  

3rd Grade Autumn Trees

This project was a happy accident... I did a project similar to this a couple of years ago and liked it so much I thought I'd try it again.  But, being at a new school, I'm forgetting that I don't have all of the same supplies I had at my old school.  I didn't realize that I didn't have leaf stamps like I used on the last project.  So instead we drew, colored, and cut them out.  It took much longer, but I loved the results even more than the last time I did this project! 

Happy Fall!