Showers and thunderstorms. Steady temperature around 55. Breezy, with a southeast wind around 21 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday
Showers and thunderstorms. High near 68. Breezy, with a southeast wind 14 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Friday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 49. West wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
The Kindergarten, First and Second grades recently completed painting winter trees in Art class. The students began their winter scene by tearing a piece of white paper in half. They glued this to a piece of gray paper to form snow on the bottom of the page.
Next the students were given a demonstration on how to paint a tree with watercolor or tempera depending on grade level. They started at the bottom of the tree trunk by pressing the brush down flat on the paper. As they went up the page or tree trunk they started to lift their brush to make a narrower brush stroke and a smaller tree branch. The branches branched out in a Y formation to simulate how actual branches form on a tree. After their tree dried the older students added snow on top of their branches and snow flakes. They used a cotton swab to dot on the snowflakes. And the winter scenes were complete. They added a black mat to finish off the project.
You can click on the "Winter Tree Demo" article to see step by step how to do the project. Click on the photo corners of this article to view the students' work.
2015 Winter Trees
Mrs. Shoe
Mar 02, 2015
Wow! Pretty impressive, Mrs. Heithoff and elementary artists!
