Art 1 Fish Sculptures

6th graders have been busy making giant fish sculptures in teams that are decorating the halls here at Good Hope. Sculpture is sometimes hard for teachers to integrate into the classroom without massive amounts of space and without powertools, wood, metal, etc. So, I decided to make 3 dimensional paper sculptures that we could display rather than store (My storage space is getting seriously limited)! Some students went with characters from movies (Nemo!) and others chose to do anatomically accurate fish, whereas others created their own mythical fish (We actually have a Llamafish!) Teachers and Students are all excited about the colorful displays "swimming" through the hallways:) Here are a few pictures of just some of the fish. I'll take more pics to post soon!

Limo Lunch Trip

My dear students that sold 25 or more on the annual Art Fundraiser were treated to lunch at Johnny's Pizza. They traveled by LIMO (woohoo!) and enjoyed pizza, breadsticks and cinnamon sticks. The boys also got to watch the big screen on ESPN. Thank you for all your support!

Art 2 Masks

Here are noteworthy Art 2 (7th & 8th graders) Masks!

" Miss Music"

by Sarah Cady
"Ima Star"
by Molly Bryan

"KISS"

by Madeline Kent

Art 1 & 2 Masks

I always try to do the mask project around Mardi Gras. I always do this with 6th graders (Art 1), but this year my Art 2 students BEGGED to do them again, so I gave in. I figure if its something that they REALLY want to do, they will do good at it...and they did! My Art 1 students could create anything on their masks as long as they had all the components, but I made Art 2 students have a theme. We ended our maskmaking by eating a King Cake:) Yummy!

Here are some noteworthy masks from Art 1.by Elyssa Myers

By Kenda Barnes

By Nick Sanders

By Kayla Phillips

By Kenny Grant

Welcome to the Leachland Blog!

I hate that this idea just now came to me, but I came up with the idea to start blogging projects for students, parents, and extended family and friends of students to see what we are doing in Art. There are so many things that they do that they want to share, and I know how interested families are to see what there kids are doing:) So, I've decided to share the excitement of my classroom with you, sharing the creativity and successes of my students, your children, with you...because I hate to be stingy and keep it all to myself:) I'll post as we finish projects in each class. I hope you will enjoy and stay tuned:)