West Shore & Torrey Hill

The first grade students of Ms. Shuler's and Mrs. Yeaster's first grade classrooms took part in a district-wide collaboration project. Students drew a sea creature of their own inspiration and then wrote a sentence or two telling about their creature. The creatures were then handed off to the middle school where Mrs. Bruno's eighth grade art class redrew the creatures incorporating the details that the first graders wrote about. Finally the creatures made their way to Lake Fenton High School where ceramics students modeled the monsters out of clay. The sea creatures were displayed at the Lake Fenton Fine Arts District Art Show. In order to deliver the sea creatures back to the first graders, Mrs. Sudia's high school students came to West Shore and had a celebration with our students. At the celebration, the high school students helped the first graders create sea creatures of their own out of clay. They also packaged the creatures for safe travels back to the homes of our first graders. A huge thank you to all those involved, including our building administrators: Mrs. Shaughnessy, Mr. Belcher and Dr. Ferguson. We sincerely thank them for their support of this year's collaboration project.

I want to express a sincere thank you for your support of our Art to Remember fundraiser! The funds raised from this sale will be used to purchase supplies and items to be used in our elementary art program.

Kindergarten students have been busy making some very hungry caterpillars! These caterpillars are munching away on all the delicious food in the West Shore hallway. You know what happens once a caterpillar eats and eats and eats? Be sure to ask your kindergarten student to find out!

If I were the very hungry caterpillar, I would eat one ice cream. -Sydney

If I were the very hungry caterpillar, I would eat an apple. -Eowyn

If I were the very hungry caterpillar, I would eat 20 kiwis! -Alyssa

If I were the very hungry caterpillar, I would eat cake! -Kayden

If I were the very hungry caterpillar, I would eat 10 donuts. -Anynomus

Thank you, Mrs. Beaudry's fourth graders for painting all the delicious foods for our caterpillars to eat!

Thank you so much for supporting our Artome Elementary Art Show! If you were unable to make the show, no problem! Please be sure to check out the video that Brianna Johnson and Cody Sheltraw from Lake View TV created as a part of their television class at Lake Fenton High School.

I also would like to extend a HUGE "Thank you" to the volunteers that helped the evening of the show. Without these volunteers the show simply would not be possible: Andrea Krause, Billie DeWitt, Theresa Galibrath, Celeste Groth, Renee Segouin, Zackary and Jason Melynchek.

In an effort to incorporate other curricular areas with our art lessons, some classes had the opportunity to experience pendulum painting. This STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) lesson allowed students to work as a team to explore building a pendulum. Then adding some watered down paint into the bob of their pendulum, they created a piece of art as the pendulum swung. The students had a great time exploring another method of creating art while learning about Sir Isaac Newton's First Law of Gravity!

It was a honor to have Superintendent Williams ask the art departments from the elementary, middle and high school to create the centerpieces for this year's Lake Fenton Educaitonal Foundation Gala. Ceramics students from the high school made the vessels. Middle school students created the coral and our elementary students made fish and lobsters.

Torrey Hill: (810) 591-3683

West Shore: (810) 591-6578

Email: lmelynchek@lakefentonschools.org
Twitter: @lmelynchek