In Information Literacy Class with Karin Gravina, the students worked in pairs to create a publicity poster of a national park using Comic Life. Students researched their parks and downloaded images to create the posters. Still looking for a summer vacation spot? Check out their posters for some ideas!
Road Trip to the National Parks with Grade 4 from Karin Gravina on Vimeo.
Each year in Ms. Gow’s Grade 6th class the students create hot air balloons. With the assistance of David Mager and Paul Bourke, the balloons are launched. It’s an incredible to sight to see! See what goes into creating these balloons.
Planning it all out.
Placing the pattern.
Cutting the pattern.
Gluing gore parts.
Drying the gores. Many are colorful, some show a definite pattern!
Joining 2 gores.
Gluing 4 gores together.
A third of the way done.
Adding details.
Launch Day!
Heating the balloon.
Up, up and away!
Tracking the balloon.
A high flyer!
Flying towards Leverett Elementary.
Safe catch. Successful flight!
The second graders have been studying biographies and the life and times of famous people. Each student selected a biography to read and then designed a project to present to their classmates. Some students created videos while many others created posters and presented their person in character.
Grade 2 Biographies from Karin Gravina on Vimeo.
In Computer Information Literacy Class with Karin Gravina, students in Grade 3 created a monster using KidPix, wrote a detailed description of their creation, and then the description was given to another group of students who then had to re-create the monster without seeing the original picture.
To see all the monsters, please use the scroll bar within the Monsters slideshow or click on Full.
In preschool, the students heard two stories by Marcus Pfister about Hopper and Mama rabbit. One story takes place in winter and one in spring. Children first used water color paints on their rabbits and then were offered collage materials to create a winter or spring scene in response to these stories.
Preschool’s Hopper and Mama Rabbit from Karin Gravina on Vimeo.
Kindergarten has been studying places and the different customs and rules that each place can have. They began with their bedrooms, school playground and continued on with streets, towns, states, countries and of course, our world! They read the book “The Big Orange Splot” by Daniel Manus Pinkwater which begins with a street where everything is the same. The story ends with a street where each house is as unique as the people who live there. The students then created pictures of there home where they like to be.
My House is Me from Karin Gravina on Vimeo.
As part of the fourth grade curriculum on immigration, Genie Casey, Grade 4 Teacher, and Susan Boss, Art Teacher, collaborate and have students create family trees.
This traditional craft from Mexico was created in the classroom using brown craft paper, permanent marker, and florescent paint. The students used images from nature as their design elements.
Grade 1’s Mexican Bark Paintings with Susan Boss from Karin Gravina on Vimeo.
Students made a large pinch pot by hand. They then created clay “nesting” material with a garlic press and added this to the pot to enhance the illusion of a nest. Extra clay was employed to make eggs and even birds! The finished work was glazed and fired.
Tracey’s Grade 3 Clay Nests with Susan Boss from Karin Gravina on Vimeo.
Carla’s students were inspired by The Accidental Zucchini by Max Gruber. They invented their own alliterations and sketched lightly and added oil pastel and watercolor.
