A Brand New Beaverific Year!

I hope you all had a great time sharpening your family's saw during summer break! Although the time off is wonderful, it really feels great to be back at BES for another great school year! During the first week of school I always like to do my welcome and get students warmed up for the year in the art room by giving them a one day project that goes into a school wide collaborative display for the front hall. This year, students drew self-portraits using either a cool or a warm color scheme. I did not give any instruction on how to use shapes to draw the human figure in order to assess where each student is at the beginning of this school year.  Take a look at the amazing mural our students synergized to create during week one in the art room! Can you read the secret message within the artwork? Here are two hints... the letters are purple and the message is our school theme for the year!

Be sure to check back soon to see what we are up to for our first art units of the 2015-16 school year!