Huzzah!

When I read powerful student writing, something happens to my knees. They actually shake. I know that sounds silly, but it just happens. I get weak in the knees. It’s a good thing I am usually sitting down when I read student posts because these days I would have to strap a pillow to my derriere. [...]

Tags: Art, Creativity, following your passion, writing

For a little Halloween fun, we sought out the creative inspiration of graphic artist Stefan G. Bucher. Several years ago he shared his imagination and talent with the world by creating The Daily Monster. He filmed the process and invited people to make their own. A simple process with infinite variation. You see it in [...]

Tags: Art, Creativity, Halloween, monsters

Robots are pretty fascinating. And, as we have discovered over the last few weeks, a great challenge and a lot of fun. Here is a video of our efforts. We are really grateful to our guest judges, Mrs. Mooney, Ms. Janine, Mrs. Crawford, and Mrs. Timmins. Thank you for taking the time to give us [...]

Tags: Creativity, dance, engineering, Lego Robotics, robot

Eric’s post made me giggle–and who doesn’t need a giggle on March 23rd? I was inspired to write this by the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, because so very much, if not all of the novel is illogical and nonsense. I made a list consisting of nine impossible things, and giving my thoughts on them. [...]

Tags: Creativity, imagination, impossibility

We finished our self-portraits! We are a pretty fine looking crew, don’t you think? Not every student portrait is represented in this mosaic, but I will up-date this image as the last few are handed in. These were our first self-portraits, and it’s an exercise we will repeat. Many artists, from Rembrandt to van Gogh [...]

Tags: Art, Creativity, portraiture

The Challenge: Draw a self-portrait. It’s tougher than it sounds! The Tools: A hand mirror, pencil, paper, and ruler (to prove to ourselves that our eyes are only half-way up our heads–not closer to the top!) The Learning: First, we looked at this video of portraits of women in the last 500 years: do you [...]

Tags: Art, Creativity, portraiture

Begin with the end in mind. To start the year off right, we have come up with the agreements we will live and learn by. We looked at a series of Flickr images and then brainstormed possible messages they could represent about positive classroom relationships and a healthy learning environment. For example, for this peacock [...]

Tags: agreements, community, Creativity