PreK 5 students are using their imagination to make art – just like the great Salvador Dali! This Spanish artist worked in a style called Surrealism and taught us that the sky isn’t the limit, it’s actually the place to…
Author: Catherine Weide
For Unit 3, the Grade 3 students were learning about visual, performing, and literary arts. In their homeroom, students wrote a poem inspired by one of four feelings: happy, sad, scared, or angry. After writing their poem, students illustrated their…
Next week, the Chinese New Year will celebrate the Year of the Goat. Traditions of celebrating the new year came about partly from the story of Nian, a sea-dwelling monster who would terrorize the people on land once a year…
This week Grade 1 classes had a terrific visit to the Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art in Education City. The guides there are truly exceptional. Modern art can be quite abstract and inaccessible even for the trained critic.…
Grade 5 students have kicked off a unit about Modern Art by learning about the art of Henri Matisse. This modern master’s work is still being celebrated today and the most recent exhibit is Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs, which features…