Field Trip to the MOMA Part 2

Here are a few pics from our second MoMA trip with Ms. Kramer's and Ms. Forero's classes. I was so impressed in how perceptive and well spoken our students are! We analyzed and critiqued the masterworks of Modernism for an hour and students wanted to keep on going!

MOMA trip: 2nd Grade

BrEaK DaNcE: 5th Grade Animation

Here's the latest animation!

Collograph Truck Prints

Trucks and cars are the first group of prints we plan to make. Latter we'll add buildings, street signs, and people, and animals.

Snug Harbor Student Art Show

Student work featured in "Featuring our Young Artists" at Snug Harbor, Staten Island.

far away planet-3rd Grade Animation

Fasten your seat belts!...by Ms. Rich and Sylvester's Class.

Mr. Roboto: Recycled Sculpture

Ms. Szeto's class created this robotic substitute teacher to cover for me on sick days.

Guest Artist

Look who showed up on "Take Your Child to Work Day". Ramon Hugh Brady Graupera!!

ALIEN DOG!

ANIMATIONS

Painting with Primary Colors

These bugs are NOT real, but they gave 1st graders a opportunity to display their color mixing skill.

3 year old wonder child sings Woody Guthrie!

By the way, this is my son.

DESTINATION IMAGINATION T-SHIRTS

Destination Imagination is a school team that competes in creative problem solving and critical thinking. After winning the Spriit Award at the state level, we printed T-Shirt to support our team at the National competition.

SKATEBOARDING IS NOT A CRIME!!

Here is the first in a series of large sculptures that my second grade students are building. All the materials are recycled save our trusty glue gun. In case you can't tell, it's a skater frozen "mid-trick".

Puppet Sculptures

Here are a few examples of the puppet my students created using plaster of paris and free fabric from Materials for the Arts. Now that these guys have a handle on simple 3-d building we'll try something a little more difficult (...more later!)

Clay Highlights

Here are a few highlights from out clay unit. We spent about 2 months exploring the uses of clay from vessels to small animal sculptures to picture frames.

Las Calaveras de Jose Guadalupe Posadas

4th grade students loved the graphic work of Posadas. We used his humorous depictions of "living skeletons" as inspiration for our own Calavera scupltures.