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Hey Folks. If you're like me and never want to throw stuff away you acquire alot of items.  Many of my items come from people who think I will use it eventually.  Well, this is the project.   I had many items collected over  time - foam shapes that were just laying around, bottle caps from a recycling project, tissue paper and pipe cleaners from a retiring teacher, cardboard from a

My 4th graders created these fun and colorful carts for our Tropical Rainforest Unit. Inspiration The traditional oxcart, or carreta,is Costa Rica’s most famous type of craft.  From the mid-nineteenth century, oxcarts were used to transport coffee beans from Costa Rica’s central valley over the mountains to Puntarenas on the Pacific coast, a journey requiring ten to fifteen days.

I hope all of you are enjoying a restful summer break. We sure are at our house. A couple of days after school got out we packed up our VW minivan and headed out west.  We are a national park's family. We love the national parks and all they have to offer: beautiful scenery, fun lodges, stamps for passport books and our favorite thing the Junior Ranger Program! Ok, that is another post

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Deep in the country of Mexico lies the Sierra Madre Mountain range.  While preparing for our Fine Arts Festival  -The Mexican Marketplace and Tropical Rainforest-my 5th grade students created these beautiful mountain landscapes that included at least 3 landscape details.  DETAILS such as: horizon line, foreground with trees and plants, middle ground with hills, smaller trees, rivers or

I have been using painted paper for a while, it just really adds spectacular color to students work. This project was a combination of tempera painted birds shapes with painted paper details such as feathers, claws, beaks. etc.   I had my 3rd graders use a template to get started, (this class has some severe special needs and I put out a template to get them started as well as feel

As we prepared for our annual Fine Arts Festival my fourth graders had been creating some beautiful projects. This one has been a favorite. Students created a glue resist chalk drawing by first using pencils to draw their image; then applying glue directly to the drawing and coloring in the image with chalk.   Day One: Beautiful birds outlined in glue. I used Elmer's Glue All because