Kindergarten is Hatching!!!

We had fun creating these projects in kindergarten today! 

Happy Spring Break! 

Georgia O'Keeffe

5th grade learned about Georgia O'Keeffe and looked at some of her famous paintings. We talked about "zooming in" and how she liked to do close up paintings of things in nature. 

The students then looked up flowers on the computer and chose one to zoom in on. They drew their close ups on black paper with pastels and colored them in using pastels. 

Here are some examples. They did an amazing job!!!

Monet's Water Lilies in the Dark

6th grade learned about the artist, Monet, and made our own version of his Japanese Bridge over Water Lilies. We did "Water Lilies in the Dark" using pastels on black paper. 

2015 Rain Barrel!!!

4th grade designed and painted this year's entry into the Barnegat Bay Blitz Rain Barrel Challenge!! Look for more info about voting soon! It got picked up yesterday to be sealed and photographed for the website!! 

Primer!

Students working on our Minecraft themed barrel!

The class researched animals that live in the NJ Watershed and made a tile for their animal. 

Almost finished!!

Great job, 4th graders!!! I am proud of how hard and how well you worked to finish this!! 

Dr. Seuss Week!

Dr. Seuss Day is one of my favorite days in school. I am making it Dr. Seuss Week with many activities in every class. 

Preschoolers, Kindergarten and 1st grade followed directions and used patterns to create their own "Cat in the Hat" this week!

Binary Bracelets!

Because we are locked out of the computers during the weeks that the PARCC is administered, we are doing "Unplugged Activities" from http://www.CODE.ORG . In 5th and kindergarten, we learned about binary code and made binary bracelets using beads that stand for the first letter of our first names. 

This is a picture of the 5th graders and their binary bracelets. 

I truly thought it might be over the heads for the kindergarteners, but a good amount of them deciphered a message I put on the board using a binary code to say "Tech is cool!"