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It is with a happy, yet heavy heart that I announce my move this coming fall. I have enjoyed 5 exciting years with the kids at Creighton, but I have an opportunity to work closer to home and take my little ones with me to the school's daycare, so I have now been adopted into the Oak Ridge Family. While I'll dearly miss my Creighton Cub family, I'm very excited about my future with the lovely Oak Ridge Owls.

IT'S GONNA BE A HOOT!

Hope you all have a happy and safe summer! See ya in the fall!

I was inspired by another art teacher website, and by my cousin's pending Greek Loggerhead Sea Turtle trip, to draw sea turtles with my 3rd and 4th graders. After learning more about them on National Geographic Kids, we practiced drawing them on sketch paper. We focused on PROPORTION and SHAPE to get our turtles just right. Then, we drew the final turtle focusing on COMPOSITION. The pencil lines were traced in oil pastel and the texture of the turtle's skin and shell were also defined with oil pastel. The students finished up their work by adding a watercolor wash over the top and sprinkling everything with salt. They turned out beautifully! More turtles are popping up everywhere.....

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Here are some fun pics I took while we were doing PAPER SCULPTURE a while back. The guy with glasses is supposed to be Mr. Moran. "EVIL MR. MORAN" to be exact! I saw him walking through my lunch tables, threatening kids if they didn't behave. All they did was laugh at him though. Maybe it was his lack of body..... I'm not sure! :)

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These are some Water Lily projects my second graders drew. We talked about impressionism and how color was more important than detail. We created these with oil pastels. I think they turned out AWESOME!