Where the wild things are...

K5 students at Pershing Elementary created collaborative art after reading the book 'Where the Wild Things Are'. Each student made a tree and their very own wild thing. They loved getting to use their own wild side for inspiration!

Planets in the Art Room at Pershing!

Paper Mache Madness

Working in Planet Groups

Here at Pershing Elementary, third and fourth graders are working on their solar system inquiry unit in their classroom. Students brought their expertise to the Art Room!

We discussed the importance of scale in three-dimensional artwork. Since we can't make life-sized planets, we had to create them to scale. Planets were made using paper mache, and then painted to mimic the actual surface of the planet.

Uranus in the making!

This solar system will be on display for the entire school to see. We labeled each planet, and wrote out two fun facts for each one. This is our way of educating other Pershing students about our planets.

Finding some fun facts about our planets.

Stay tuned to see our final display! It's sure to be out of this world!

Happy Holidays from Pershing Artists!

Seasons' Greetings from Pershing! Our Winter Sing was a few weeks ago in our gym, and first and second graders were in charge of decorations! We made jumbo-sized Christmas lights and painted them in with bright tempera paint. They were strung together and displayed on the curtain behind singers. It was a wonderful concert, with great decorations!

Pershing 1/2/3 Matisse Veggies

 

 

Pershing's Next Generation Learning Community (1st-3rd graders) were inspired by Henri Matisse in this lesson. We read about the great French artist, Henri Matisse. His first love was painting, but after a difficult surgery, he was confined to a wheelchair and began doing paper cuttings. He called this technique "painting with scissors".

 

Students studied organic and geometric shapes, and built up their background with basic paper shapes. Afterwards, we looked at lots of different vegetables, and cut those shapes from paper as well. We got lots of cutting and glueing practice with this project!

These 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade artists are proud of their Matisse-inspired veggies!