Art Show 2021

 Art Show 2021!

Our students and staff have been working diligently on their masterpieces for the art show!

Each class put in three different art forms. One based on a famous artist, one process based activity and one of their own choosing. 

Mimi and Mariah's class picked Edvard Munch for their artist. The children made their own interpretations of his work, The Scream using water colors. 

Joan and Maya's class picked Ed Emberly and Eric Carle for their artists. Two of our favorite children's authors! 

They made their own seahorses based on the book, Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle. 

Destiny and Marcie's classes chose Vincent Van Gogh and his Starry Night painting. 

Sonia and the School Age crew chose Pablo Picasso as their artist to draw inspiration from. 

They also let each child choose an artist of their own to interpret or to make some open ended art...or both!

I was able to do an art activity with the students too. It kept us nice and busy on the playground in the afternoon and offered a nice place to relax and cool off. I wanted to focus on a famous female artist as I noticed everyone else had picked a male artist. So we made poppies in the style of artist, Georgia O'Keeffe.

Our school age students made an ocean mural and learned some interesting facts about water. 

They painted rocks too! Some of the children chose to  decoupage their rock and added fabric and beads to theirs.

They also made a collaborative / recycled art project as a group. They worked together and created their own campground. It hosts a long list of amenities including a game room, parking garage, outdoor cafeteria, etc... 

Mimi and Mariah's class also made these creative paintings with the children's picture and with words that the children used to describe themselves. 

They also made this Summer fun mural. All the painting is done with their hands or fingerprints. They worked together and took pictures outside doing a variety of physical activities to add to the mural.

 

Marcie and Destiny's class made these marvelous water color Mickey silhouettes!

Our youngest learners also made these painted masterpieces! They painted a paper with various colors and then dipped the canvas into it to create a work of art! So creative!

Joan and Maya's class made these glittery finger painted masterpieces! 

We set up an area to read some art related books.

We also had some fun photo props! 

We also had the easel ready if anyone wanted to draw.

We hope everyone had a great time!!!

Art show 2021!

Olympics

It's Olympic week here at HDC!

We have had so much fun learning about what it takes to be an Olympian and an all around good sport. We have talked about different countries and what their flags look like. How the rings represent the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from around the world. How the games originated in ancient Greece. How important exercise and eating healthy is for our bodies. We have also learned some great vocabulary words such as podium, athlete, torch and sportsmanship. So many different learning objectives have all come out of our Olympic week. 

To us though, the most important thing is that the children were active and engaged in their learning and we were all able to come together as a school!

Opening ceremonies!

Here come the athletes!

Go team USA!

Let the games begin!!!

Basketball!

Balance Beam!

Hurdles!

Discus!

Javelin!

Bean bag toss!

Cornhole!

Rocket Launch!

Golf!

Relay race time!!!

Great job everyone!!!

Here are some of our school age students doing an Olympic word search.

Here the children are discussing some of the countries and finding them on the globe. 

The children were asked what color the Olympic rings were? They all made their guess and then were able to make their own Olympic rings.  

Our youngest learner's made art by stamping the Olympic rings with a paper towel tube!

Our school age crew had an Olympic Party complete with some fun snacks!

 

We hope everyone is enjoying the Olympic games! Go team USA!