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PAST PROJECTS

Selfie Project

Students will use their selfies to communicate their unique human experience.  Throughout the project we will consider the roll of social media in our lives and explore the power of captions and hashtags to influence audience interpretation.

 

Students are working together in mixed grade level classes to understand the events of the Holocaust and celebrate the resilience of the children who lived and died during this terrible period. 

Sand Sculptures

 

Students kicked off their 8th grade year with a trip to Moonlight State Beach in Encinitas.  Student designed a sand sculpture, gathered materials, set a team schedule. Once we arrived at the beach students were free to succeed or crumble on their own.  Experiences at the beach became the focus of a reflection and socratic seminar on the highs and lows of group work.  These discussions carry on through out their final year at HTMNC.

 

Kindergarten

Commissioned 

Clay Creatures

Students interview a kindergarten student from HTeNC and design a toy based on the child's design.

 

Inspirational 

Portrait

Students create paintings of an inspirational person. The images are recreated using a variety of values and one accent color selected for its symbolic connection to the person being depicted.

 

Block Printing

 

Students create precepts based on their reading of "Wonder" by R.J, Palacio.   Precepts are carved into linoleum and multiple copies are printed for distribution.

Where I'm From

 

Students use a variety of mediums to alter photographs in response to the unfinished statement "I'm From..."  Student work is compiled to reflect who we are as an 8th grade class.  

Guerilla Art

 

“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look.  To affect the quality of the day- that is the highest of arts.”  Henry David Thoreau

Altered Books

Students create an altered book to reveal a significant scene, setting, or symbol from their reading. Books, taken from their literature circles on immigration, are cut, colored, and reassembled.  Final student work was shared with local libraries and displayed in the halls of HTMNC.

 

 

Aestheometry

This collision of math and art was our Spring Exhibition project.  Click the link to visit Illuminate Education where our resources

have been archived.  

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Click on the video to see our

project set up.

 

Silent Film Festival

 

 

Hexaflexagons

 

 

Vignette Silhouettes

""Their strength is secret.  They send ferocious roots beneath the 

ground.  They grow up and they grow down and grab the earth beneath

their hairy toes and bite the sky with their violent teeth and never

quit their anger.  This is how they keep"  -Sandra Cisneros

 

I Never Saw Another 

Butterfly 

Students are working together in mixed grade level classes to understand the events of the Holocaust and celebrate the resilience of the children who lived and died during this terrible period. 

 

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