Artist Of The Week 12/20/2017

Fifth Grade Students have been completing a snowflake project. This is not the folding and cutting project you may be imagining, but an experiment with Masking Tape and an exercise creating Tints of a color by adding white. We started our study of snowflakes by watching a quick video that showed us some of the science about how snowflakes form. Then we switched gears and talked about how a house painter uses masking tape. We carefully created our snowflakes with tape and then covered our papers with Tints of a color of our choice. When our paintings were dry and the tape was removed our snowflakes emerged. This weeks Artist Of The Week always does a careful job. I chose her to recognize her snowflake out of so many beautiful snowflakes that 5th graders created because of how she blended the transition between the Tints that she created and the unique border that she made. Nice work Grace T. in 5 Gerrish!

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