Erickson Elementary Fine Arts

 February has been a fun month for art at Erickson as we work our way toward a clay unit coming up in the next few weeks. We once again have been working this year to bridge what the students are learning in the homeroom class with what we are learning in art class.   In Kindergarten we had a busy month. We started off by doing a Romero Britto inspired Valentine Heart project and are now reviewing weather with a silly drawing inspired by the book "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs"  by Judi Barrett.  First grade spend some time creating some incredible solar systems with their own chalk pastel planets. These really turned out to be amazing! Our sweet first graders are now working on a super secret first step to an upcoming clay project (this is sure to be a sweet gift for the family).  Second graders spent some time doing valentines lessons inspired by artist Chris Uphues and are now finishing up with their Ghanaian Kente Cloth inspired paper weavings....

What’s Happening at the Erickson Library? In Kindergarten Library class, we talked about point of view. Point of view the mouth and eyes of the story. In 1st grade, 2nd grade and 3rd grade library class, we talked about nonfiction!  We reviewed the text features of maps, captions, special print and glossary.   We looked at  nonfiction books to see if those books had the text features we learned.  In 2nd and 3rd grade we took "selfies" of all the text features we could find in the books! OH there are so many! In 4th grade, we learned how books are shelved in the library. We had a library Hunt, looking for books that were on the shelf and determining if they were fiction or nonfiction books! 5th grade we learned about different genres of books and the differences between the genres. Poetry vs. Novel and Verse, Historical Fiction vs. Informational and Memoir vs. Autobiography. We found some great books to read too! If you have any questions, please contact me at h...

    Erickson Music Edition:  February 2025        Happy almost March  everyone! Here is what each grade is working on: Kindergarten:     Kindergarten students are working on keeping a Steady Beat and finishing up their Sound/Silence songs. 1st Grade:     1st grade students are currently working on writing rhythms and practicing their Sol and Mi Solfege syllables. 2nd Grade:     2nd grade students just finished up writing Do-Re-Mi songs and will be working on Boomwhacker songs. 3rd Grade:     3rd grade students are currently learning how to play recorders and composing their own songs! 4th Grade:     4th  grade students are currently learning how to play recorders and composing their own songs! 5th Grade:     5 th  grade students are currently learning how to play recorders and composing their own songs! Musical:      Musical rehearsals are progressing well and we ...