“Romare Bearden Inspired Collage”

Willow Road third graders created these musical collages as part of their unit of study on artist Romare Bearden. After studying “The Block” a famous six panel collage in which Bearden depicts a typical Harlem block, students created their own blocks in the style of Bearden. Student’s next looked at Bearden’s collages inspired by Jazz music. Student’s created their own collages based on Jazz music they listened to.

Day of the Dead Masks

James A. Dever third graders used the element of shape to create these masks which celebrate Mexico's Day of the Dead.
Each mask was cut into a symmetrical shape, then divided inot smaller shapes before painting.

This is Stellaluna.  After hearing the story and looking at the pictures of the book Stellaluna, the third grade students at Wheeler each made a bat.  Stellaluna is a story about a bat who ends up in a birds nest.  A story much like The Ugly Duckling.  Stellaluna and the baby birds compare and contrast the way they each live. 

In Howell Road School, our third grade classes experienced the artwork of Vincent Van Gogh. We looked one of his most famous works, “The Starry Night” and made artwork with water-colors, craypas and colored paper.