Dear Parents and Community Members!
The walls at MVSD are covered in art! Please come and take a tour the next time you are in the building.
Currently the first graders are working on some very colorful (talking) turkeys and just finished working on
their voluptuous pumpkin sculptures, hopefully you will see them decorating a table or inside display (they aren't waterproof!)
The combined second and third graders are working with
color and will be working on their color combinations this week. We made primary color symmetrical creatures. Next week
we will mute the colors for a fall scene painting.
Fourth graders learned how to draw horses last week. You can see the "Horsing Around" display
in the hallway. This week Mrs. Weber is reading them the Mouse and the Motorcycle, and then they will create the lego motorcycles.
We will be preparing for that project by talking about the process of art.
Fifth graders are working on tesselations and will finish those up right before Thanksgiving. Tesselations
are actually tiles, as in terms of a mosaic. The greatest tesselation maker of our time was Maurits Cornelias Escher, better
known as MC Escher. You can view his work at www.mcescher.com. It is really fabulous.
Sixth graders are creating some out of the world art! We are studying Howie Green, who creates fantastical
dimensional art on a flat surface. This week we drew the preliminary sketch of what we will be painting next week. You can
see his work at www.hgd.com. Check it out, and ask your 6th grader how to make your name in 3-D - they know how!
Please take a moment to look at the art work in the gallery
that has been removed from the walls. We didn't have room to put every piece, but you might find one that is familiar!
Sincerely,
Ms. Barger
