April 5th-9th!

So...I had a VERY interesting break. The best thing about it was that we surprised my little brother with a party.
Proud to say he WAS really surprised and touched! yeah! I thought he might be really mad at me (especially about the
bunny cake I made for him and presented in front of all his friends), but he even thanked me! Wow.

2nd Grade students had a review of color and are creating a patterned pinwheel. Hopefully I will remember to get 24 pencils to pin them to!

1st Grade students played "catch up" this week and worked on their watercolor pencil shape drawings and their cityscape we created several weeks ago. : )

Kindergarten will be making a kite complete with tails! We will review shapes we know and discuss color and line as well.

This week in the high school we are finishing up some things...Art II--colored pencil drawings for the Art Show April 19th (at Ruthven-Ayrshire).
Morgan finished 3 pieces--one graphite, one charcoal pencil and one chalk pastel pencil.
Sandy will enter some commercial art items and graphic design items she has created.
Jeff will enter a watercolor he did last semester and he is busy building his Knight's Jam website:
http://www.petrichsportfolio.webs.com

Phillip is working on yearbook items that need addressed.
Heather is almost done with all the portrait pages. She is "Miss attention to detail", so we named her editor this year.

The photography students continue to work on the list we created and I have been resorting to worksheets to keep them
a bit more "contained". They have a tendency to wander or do nothing if I don't keep them on task.

Graphic Designers will finish their "Celebrity" pieces and then work on a commercial art piece to be determined through class discussion.

Prom invitations are being delivered this week! We will plan more about the meal, discuss waiter and waitress attire/duties and continue working on decorations. The centerpieces are basically ready to assemble. The 50's theme is really FUN!

It's time for me to get out the mat cutter and begin matting pieces. NOT my favorite activity! I try and do it when most people aren't around. It's frustrating...and VERY time consuming.

I will begin working on the Open House which is scheduled May 4th (the night after the Fine Arts Concert, where we will have artwork displayed as part of the evening.)

Mrs. Thoreson wants to have another Cinco de Mayo celebration. I'm game and will come up for ways for all my students to be involved again.

Hy Vee is asking us to create large cardboard circus animals. I said yes, but may regret being so busy, one of these days!

You all know that my daughter is graduating, which is at times sad for me, but what you may not know is that I'm VERY fond of the 4 seniors I currently see every day...somebody better have lots of kleenex at Graduation. I don't think I'll make it through without several!

Oh...that reminds me--another reason I need senior photos is for the Class Composite I create at graduation. I need them ASAP because I HATE waiting until the last minute!