Making Knitting Needles to Knit for Project Linus

The 8th grade class is about to embark upon a mission. A Knitting Mission to knit at least 25 stadium-sized blankets for Project Linus! In order to do so, we need materials like knitting needles and yarn. Instead of having families fork out money for knitting needles we decided to have kids make them out of dowels in class. A video for how to do this is linked here. Kids had a lot of fun creating and designing their needles. It was a lot like wood shop in the Art Room!

New changes to our website!

Making some changes to our website to give it some pizzaz.

7th Grade Museum Field Trip

The 7th grade field trip to the California Museum and The Crocker Museum turned out to be a great day. We had 13 fabulous parent chaperone's, perfect weather conditions in the mid 70's and 87 super enthusiastic 7th grade students. We split up the group so that half the kids were at the California Museum and the other half were at the Crocker. We all met up at lunch and picnicked in the park. Afterwards, the kids organized groups to play football, throw the Frisbee, chase squirrels and just play. It was nice to see the students relax and break out of the school day norm.

Exploding Picture Box

The second Paper sculpting project for the 8th grade is an Exploding Picture Box. The kids get very excited about this project and take a lot of time designing their box for the person or theme they are basing it upon. We show this presentation that includes an awesome video that uses paper primarily as a source of design details. The kids end up taking this one home on a Friday to finalize picture layout and email a picture of their final product. Here are a few pictures of final projects.

Quilled Letter

The 8th grade Paper Sculpting Unit Started with the Quilled Letter and the students are really getting creative with making their quilled frame and shapes. We use this video in conjunction with a presentation to kick off the project and get ideas flowing. Here are some pictures of kids during the initial framing and quilling day 1-2.