School Year 2019-20

Plans are in the works for some great projects this year.

I am looking forward to developing some new projects as well as revisiting some old favorites:

I even purchased some STEAM books to have in the classroom, for read-aloud and inspiration.

:)

Capitol Hill Art Show - SUCCESS - Thank you to everyone who made it so!

Wow...
what a wonderful evening in celebration of the art created by the children of Capitol Hill School. 

The Show would not have been possible without the crew of dedicated parents - led by Joni and Tabitha - who made it all possible. Thank you to everyone involved.

The student art was strong as ever - showing their individual voices articulated with the skills they have learned in art class. This is an example of the Arts Tax is use. 
The art program staffing is 100% funded by the Arts Tax.

Big Thanks to Lauren for engineering the bevy of butterflies in the school foyer.
She did a gorgeous job!





Extra thanks to the 5th grade students who helped extra with set-up including the Scouts.

I felt so gratified as a teacher and member of the Capitol Hill community. Thank you for making this such a great place to be.

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Please come to the -Capitol Hill Art Show- on April 11th from 6:30-8:00.

This a free event with the sole purpose of celebrating the art and learning of all the Capitol Hill students. 

You will see one piece of art created by each student in the school - Kindergarten through 5th grade.

You will hear musical performances by CH piano students.

And there will be food!

Please come and enjoy the art and celebrate your place in your community.

And many thanks to the volunteers who made this happen.

snow day

Confession - I worried about how I am not updating this blog enough last night instead of sleeping. We have a snow day today so... I have been given a chance to alleviate my guilt.

In the past I have confessed that the photo management changed and I am having trouble getting the images stored in an easy way. I may have finally figured which "cloud" they live in without totally opening my phone to the world wide web. Argh...our digital age.

Anyway I may have it now... BUT I am doing pretty well with instagram - link above - so if you want to see more of what is happening in real time - please consider watching that link.

Happy New Year

We are back from a wonderfully longgggg break and just when we get used to getting up early for school, we have another long weekend.

Yet... we have nothing but gratitude and admiration for the courage of Dr. Martin Luther King, how he championed Civil Rights.

As a country we have made progress, but are not "there" yet.

The year is humming along.

Even though everyone likes to call November - "no-school-November," we have just finished a good long period of school.  We have nine weeks under our belts at the moment this is written.

The students have really settled in nicely, and definitely have grown- especially the youngest ones who are changing so quickly.

This last week the 5th graders began a quick project inspired by a still life. I hadn't really planned to do this but as they were doing such a good job on their "Spooky Still life" I figured we should take a quick detour before our next project.

Just watching them work inspires me.
How about you?

New School Year...in a new classroom

Okay, "new" means new to me, not new as in brand new.

Art has been moved out of the portable classroom to the old Kindergarten room in the main building. While it is set up, but not finely tuned (use with the students is the key to that information) we are up and running.

Last week was the first week with classes and we are off to a good start.
As in most years, we begin with a self-portrait project to document this year in your child's life.

ALL classes are coming to the art studio for one hour/week even the youngest students. Its all good and I look forward to a productive year with the wonderful Capitol Hill Artists.