Keep on Walking
1 06 2007 
An annual tradition for Murray…the PTO Walk-A-Thon. The rain stayed away and it was a great day. Thanks to the PTO for supporting CUIP with the donations made during the Walk-A-Thon. We all certainly appreciate it.
First, I wanted to mention that the 4th grade has finished up their video poems. I hope to have all of these videos up on the Murray web site next week.
For fine arts, the 3rd graders had their final event for the Smart Museum Art in Focus program. It was the culmination of their weeks of learning how to look and talk about art. They learned about many principles of art through visits to the SmartKids web site, three visits to the Smart Museum, and different art making projects. We would certainly like to thank the Smart Museum and the hard work of the docents to educate our students in visual language.
In 4th grade, we are doing two projects at the same time. The students are finishing up their surrealism collages that we started before Ms. Lager began teaching. Also, we are working on sonobe cubes. It is an origami cube you can make with 6 pieces of square paper.
The 5th graders have finished their mythical sculptures made out of clay and they are currently being fired in a kiln over at the Hyde Park Art Center. They painted a background for their sculpture on cardboard this week, and next week they will paint their sculptures.
The 6th graders are still working on their graffiti project. The students have really gotten in to this project and have been doing some excellent work. As you can see from the above photo, we went outside this week so they could paint outside. I hope to show them how to use an airbrush this week, but I do not think we will have time for everyone to use it.
Until next week…
