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The Artsonia website www.artsonia.com, where you may view Hartland Elementary School student artwork,  is up and running again this year. If parents want to start a Fan Club for their children on Artsonia, or have their children receive comments about their artwork on the website, you'll need your child's Screen Name and password.  I do have all those screen names and passwords in a file.  Just email me if you need them:  Jcathey@wsesu.net

Sustainable Art

Sustainable Art

5^th Grade Students layered white wool fleece, sprinkled with wildflower seeds, and needle-felted designs on top using colored wool. The results are erosion control "healing blankets". They will be placed on some of the unstable silty banks of the White River that were dramatically altered by the flooding during Hurricane Irene last fall.  The blankets will help stabilize the riverbank.  After the seeds inside the blankets germinate, the roots of the growing wildflowers will help reduce erosion as well.

Basket Ball

4th Grade Students show their random woven "Basket Balls".

Jr Iron Chef Competition

Three HES middle School students participated yesterday in the Jr Iron Chef VT Competition.  It was the 5th annual competition, but the first time the Hartland Hash Slingers  joined in.  I had fun, and it looked as if they did too!  There were about 72 other teams there at the Essex Fairgrounds from all over VT!!!  Our challenge was to make the most tasty, nutritious, locally grown, creative, attractive, simple vegetarian dish we could.  How do you do that all at once?  There were only 3 prizes given out, and we did not "win", but we gained lots of experience and enjoyed the day, and I hope these chefs want to come back to try again next year.  Thank you so much to the parents who helped with travel, supplies, and support, to Jaden's cousin Buddy, who imparted lots of chef knowledge to our fledgling chef's, and to our sponsors HES Farm to School Program and the Windsor County Farm Bureau for funding and support.

 Do you want our recipe for Wheatberry Apple Pilaf with Kale Chips?  Click on its name.

At Work

Waving the Finished Flag

Serving the judges' portions

Solidarity

The final presentations were impressive

End of the First Semester

The first semester is coming to a close, and so is 7th Grade Art.  I will be seeing our HES 8th Graders again once each week for the rest of the school year.

Our last project in 7th Grade Art integrated Science and Art.  Seventh grade students studied one-celled organisms this year.  I have always been amazed at the beauty of one-celled organisms, such as diatoms.  I showed students photos of these microscopic creatures, painstakingly arranged on slides by scientists.  Students chose one organism to draw.  They painted ceramic tiles with three layers of glaze.  They scratched  a repeated design of their chosen diatom or other single-celled organism into the glaze.  The tiles were then fired.

See more student examples at www.Artsonia.com

Klimt Trees are our inspiration

With the onset of winter, the beauty of the patterns of tree branches are visible all around us.  I showed students the intricately patterned artwork of Gustav Klimt, and we created our own trees, using lots of patterns and lots of GOLD, as Klimt did.

Students in third grade used metallic oil pastels and watercolor paints.  5th Graders embossed tooling foil, then colorized with oil pastels, then embossed designs with wooden sticks.  4th graders are embroidering trees with golden thread and sequins.

See more student artwork on the Artsonia website.

Empty Bowls Dinner

We raised $361 for the VT Food Bank.  Thank you so much kitchen ladies and volunteers!!  We hope that unsold bowls will be made available for sale at Breakfast with Santa.