Mr. Mills Blog

First, I’d like to extend a welcome to Ms. Lager. She will be student teaching with Ms. Ziegler and I until earl May. She is originally from Alaska and has been studying to become an art teacher at the School of the Art Institute. She will be observing Ms. Ziegler and I until next Friday, but when we all return from spring break, she will be taking over all of the teaching duties for the next 4 weeks. Ms. Ziegler and I are excited she is here and very confident she will do a great job. So….welcome!

Second, I want to once again ask people to visit the Murray Language Academy blog to write stories based on the pictures the fourth graders took. This week, they have been writing stories on other groups pictures. Plus, the 5th and 6th graders have been writing stories about their pictures. We really want to create a community with this blog, so we are hoping that many people will participate.

The third graders have finished their landscape pictures using Windows Paint. There are a couple examples below.

The 5th graders are finishing up their Warhol portraits. They are currently hanging in the same wing as the fine arts room.

The 6th graders are working on their out of proportion collages. We talked about how things in this world look like they are “in proportion” because we are used to seeing them a certain way. For example, the human body has a certain look to it. For this project, they are putting together items that look like they are out of proportion. Some of the results are really funny.

Until next week…