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Dear Hiawatha Community,

I hope you enjoy your weekend and Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. I look forward to seeing you at our Community Dinner on Friday, January 24th at 5:30 PM.

Take care,

Katherine

* January 20, 2025 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day - No School - please plan accordingly

* January 24, 2025 - Annual Community Dinner from 5:30 - 7:00 PM

During the winter months, please send your student to school with a hat, a pair of gloves or mittens, a coat, snow pants, and boots. Students go outside for recess unless the ‘feels like’ temperature is below zero degrees.

Also, please pack extra shoes for your student to wear inside the school building. Wearing wet snow boots is not only uncomfortable but makes for wet floors, which can lead to injury.

If you need assistance with obtaining winter gear, please contact me or Mrs. Grykien (kgrykien@ewsd.org).

Thank you,

Reyna Maher, RN

rmaher@ewsd.org

857-7740

Here are what Hiawatha artists have been working on! Please remember to check my website for more photos and updates. After these projects, students will learn about their favorite art medium: CLAY!!!!

Kindergarten students are finishing up their mixed media landscape snow scenes. They are now learning about figure drawing and how to draw people realistically. Students can model in a still-life pose while their classmates draw them using basic shapes. I am always amazed at the growth that happens during this lesson. It's pretty fun, too!

First-grade artists finished their adorable penguins and moved on to constructing relief sculptures using mixed media and found objects. Students will choose objects to glue onto a circular background. Then, they will use metallic paints to make their work look like real metal. I can't wait to see how these turn out.

Second-grade artists learned about the Japanese art of origami. They made origami and decorated their cats with found objects and mixed media. These cats are adorable, and our art students are so creative! A student in Mr. Caforia's class knew how to make an origami fox, so she became an art teacher for a day and taught other students what she knew. It was a blast.

Third-grade artists are working on making their version of the Tree of Life inspired by Gustav Klimt. Students decorate their trees this year using gems and other mixed media forms. Please keep your eyes on these beautiful masterpieces going up in the hallways.

Integration: Third-grade artists have been coming to the art room each Wednesday for a unique integrated project. Students are designing and sewing their very own emoji pillows! First, they came up with a feeling to depict. Then, they drew an emoji face to show that feeling. Next, they cut shapes out of felt and began putting their pillows together. Now, they are learning how to sew and stuff their pillows! Students learn that sewing takes time and patience, but you can make almost anything once you understand it! Great work, fiber artists.

Cassandra Gengras, M.Ed.

She/Her

Art Educator

Hiawatha School

Room B2/ext. 7765

cgengras@ewsd.org
(802) 881-8885

In case you missed it, here are our notes from this month’s PTO Meeting. Check them out here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oKSrqSCr_zgP6XKpop2X-VqjfFcw8bA2iIBJ7r2P1jI/edit?usp=sharing

Want to help out with the Spring Dance in March, here’s a link to sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0A48ADAF2AA0F58-54166729-hiawatha No contribution is too big or too small!

Don’t forget to stop in for a yummy, free dinner next Friday in the Hiawatha Cafeteria. We hope to see you there!

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Email: hiawathaoffice@ewsd.org