Thursday, March 2, 2017

Mini-Waynes


The Fourth Graders at school created this art project based on the still-life paintings of Wayne Thiebaud, famous for his colorful renditions of common objects like desserts and gumball machines.




I particularly like the Rubik's Cube!

We don't have students in school today or tomorrow because the teachers are having conferences with parents. It's probably going to be a slow day in the library. I'm thinking I'll work on shelf-reading, as I've been finding a lot of wildly out-of-place books lately...
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11 comments:

  1. eMarch 2, 2017 at 6:40 AM

    Sounds like a plan...Are you allowed music if the kids aren't there? That always helps me work faster. I love the kids' artwork. How long will it stay up?

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  2. Yorkshire PuddingMarch 2, 2017 at 9:26 AM

    The teachers have days allotted to parent/teacher "conferences"? Hell, in all my teaching years they just slapped such meetings on to the evenings after school. Sometimes I didn't get home till ten or eleven at night. I always resented this so I think your school's arrangement is much better. BTW I loved the kids' collage.

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  3. Ms. MoonMarch 2, 2017 at 1:26 PM

    That is AMAZING!!!!
    What talented kids!

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  4. ellen abbottMarch 2, 2017 at 2:02 PM

    cool art project and fun for the kids. so how do those books get misplaced? the kids move them around just to give you something to do?

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  5. Shooting ParrotsMarch 2, 2017 at 3:23 PM

    It looks as if the kids had a lot of fun with this project. It took me a few moments to find the Rubik's Cube though.

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  6. SharonMarch 2, 2017 at 4:14 PM

    Wow, I'm impressed. That really is amazing and so colorful.

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  7. CatalystMarch 2, 2017 at 5:52 PM

    That seems to be a very precocious young lot.

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  8. jenny_oMarch 2, 2017 at 6:43 PM

    That is an impressive piece of wall art. Seriously. And it looks great in that space.

    Enjoy reading the shelves! I had thought briefly of becoming trained as a librarian, many years ago. Putting things back on the proper shelves was, strangely, both a draw and a deterrent. It seems a bit like the plight of Sisyphus but taps into my love of organizing. Which, incidentally, does not extend to my own belongings.

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  9. 37paddingtonMarch 2, 2017 at 10:54 PM

    Beautiful collage! And those red chairs set if off perfectly.

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  10. RedMarch 3, 2017 at 12:22 AM

    Neat stuff for fourth graders.

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  11. Alphie SoupMarch 3, 2017 at 3:31 AM

    A riot of colour. I missed the Rubik's Cube entirely but I did not miss the scissors, nor the vase of flowers.

    Scissors and flowers - an indispensable part of my life.

    Alphie

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