Art Club Finishes Strong!

Art Club recently finished up. Students had the opportunity to work with various mediums, learn about different artists, and create their own masterpieces. Their work can be found hanging throughout the school.

Our first Art Club project, the watercolor salt resist, hangs in the hallway outside the gym between the restrooms. Art Club participants used masking tape to create trees and then painted over the page adding salt along the way. The salt had an interesting snow-like effect with the paint.

Our Dale Chihully style sculpture. Check out Chihully's work at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Though he works with glass, we colored in plastic bottles with permanent marker and then cut the bottles in a spiral fashion. Our sculpture can be found in the hallway connecting the school to the church.

Art Club students also learned a bit of Japanese history of the cherry blossom. They created their own version of cherry blossom art using the bottom of a two-liter bottle and stamping their "cherry blossom" onto a branch they had painted. Gerhardt and Eden (above) check out their stamps while Brylee (below) makes careful horizontal strokes on her tree branch.

Abby (above) and Jacob and Hubey (below) hard at work!

Emma and Madeline share their ideas with one another.

Zachary (above) and Jack (below) stamp carefully.

Micah fills his branch (above) while Brayden (below) stops to admire his work.

Colleen (above) tries a splattering look while Elaine (below) goes for a tiny blossom effect.

Samantha (above, standing) steps back to check her work. Some finished pieces (below).

Madeline, Eden, and Gerhardt roll their magazine pieces into colorful spiral cylinders and glue them to their cross. The effect is a colorful, three-dimensional design.

Brayden and Elaine (above) talk while they work. Emma (below) quietly concentrates.

Cayla, Colleen, and Samantha work on their crosses (above) while Eden, Gerhardt, and Brylee (below) try to get the right amount of spiral in their rolled up magazine pieces.

Students created a more colorful version of Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" by using pastels to draw a flower and then cutting it out and attaching it to the vase with all of their peers' works.

Photos from Science Center Presentation

Unfortunately, I was sick the day of the Science Center presentation, so I cannot tell you what the presenter is doing in the following photos. I can, however, tell you that your children were ever so fascinated by it and it was all they could talk about the next day. If you didn't have the chance to attend, be sure to ask your child what he/she learned!

Pictures from National Lutheran Schools Week

On Wild Wednesday of National Lutheran Schools Week, the third and fourth grade students conducted a science experiment that they had started on their own over the weekend. Each student was to collect his/her own personal trash in a bag for the entire day and then bring it to school on Wednesday. We sorted through trash (Ewww!) and categorized our items into "Did Not Need to Use", "Recyclable/Reusable", "Cannot Reuse/Recycle." Then the students came up with ways they can better conserve their resources and not 

create so much trash. Surprisingly, they actually enjoyed themselves! Later on in the day, students got a surprise when "Teacher Switch" occurred and they had a new teacher every 15 minutes. Such fun!

On Fictional Friday, the students had the opportunity to dress up like a fictional book or movie character. Jack won from our class with his costume of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs!

L-R: Mrs. McLaughlin, or "Mary Ann," joined the rest of the staff in dressing up like the cast of Gilligan's Island, Jayden as Katniss from Hunger Games, Brayden as the pumpkin from Charlie Brown's The Great Pumpkin, Cayla as Laura Ingalls Wilder, Claire as Annie Oakley, Emily as "Samantha" from the American Girls series, Logan as "Steve Rogers," or Captain America, and Jack in his prize-winning costume.