Sneak Preview

This year's Fifth Graders are super pumped about the upcoming Crosstie Festival! Why? Because for the past few weeks they have been designing and painting a new banner to be displayed! Talk about excited!!!!! Anyway......Here's a sneak preview!

First, the children made sketches depicting what they think of when they think about the festival.

 

Then, they used the sketches to make beautiful construction paper collages. We enlarged pictures of some of their artwork and traced them onto canvas to paint.

 

SNEAK PREVIEW....

CHECK OUT THE FINISHED BANNER AT CROSSTIE!!!

 

 

District Art Competition

This week our school will host the District I West Art Competition. Below are a few of our entrants. Didn't they do a great job?

 

4K

Ann Howarth, Lena, Allie, Shelby, and Caleb

 

5th Grade

Nathan, Ariel, Kelly Ann, Justin and Farrar Kathryn

 

Polar Bear, Polar Bear...

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you see?

I see cool PDS kindergarteners looking at me!

 Today may have been Spring picture day, but last week's snow was definitely on these students' minds.

 

Precious Pre-School Printers

These smiling preschoolers are just a few of the reasons

 I LOVE my job!!!!!!

 

We had so much fun printing with found objects!

Valentines for Veterans

What an honor it was for our students to make Valentines for

some of the brave men and women

who have served in our armed forces!

 

 

Thank you,

Mrs. Aguzzi and the DAR for giving us this opportunity!

Thanks, too, to Mrs. Farmer for all her help!!!!!

"Action Jackson"

This week the 4K classes read a book about artist Jackson Pollock.... whom the children liked to call "Action Jackson!" They were fascinated by Pollock's unconventional painting techniques, and so we decided to employ a few unconventional painting tools of our own....MARBLES and CARDBOARD BOXES! Needless to say, the art room was a  flurry of activity as the children wiggled, jiggled, shook, bounced and giggled their way to making their own "action paintings!"

Our God is Awesome!

"Our God is so good, so strong and so mighty! There's nothing our God cannot do!"

How often we have sung these words in chapel, but they have never been more real to me than during these past couple of months as I've battled cancer! Thank you PDS parents, students, staff and friends for praying for me, my doctors and my family. Your prayers, love and support mean more than I can say! I'm doing great now and SOOOOO glad to be back in my classroom! As I close, I'd like to share one of the verses that has really helped sustain me during this trial, and maybe it will help some of you when you meet adversity as well.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3: 5-6

 

And remember...."Our God is so good, so strong and so mighty! There's nothing our God cannot do!"