Student Work and Art

Students and parents came to school on Lunar New Year to learn about the special day. They created fun Lunar New Year Crafts. They also met and listened to the author Aram Kim. She read her book "Sunday Funday in Koreatown" to parents and students and even showed them how to draw the main character.

  • Aram Kim signing her book.
  • Lunar New Year hat colored.
  • Another Lunar New Year hat.
  • Lunar New Year hat with pink firework.
  • Lunar New Year lantern.
  • Lunar New Year lantern and paper
  • Parents working on a Lunar New Year craft
  • Parents making a Lunar New Year lantern.
  • The parents who came to the Lunar New Year event.
  • Starting to work on the Lunar New Year hat.
  • Starting to color her Lunar New Year hat.
  • Working hard on her Lunar New Year hat.
  • Lunar New Year craft.
  • Making a lion mask for Lunar New Year.
  • Lunar New Year lion mask.
  • Wearing a Lunar New Year hat and making a dragon mask.
  • Wearing a dragon mask he made.
  • Listening to the author speak.
  • Aram Kim with her book.
  • Aram Kim talking about her book.
  • Aram Kim reading her book.
  • Aram Kim drawing the main character from her book.
  • Aram Kim signing her book.
  • Lunar New Year hat colored.

Students learned about Martin Luther King Jr. They listened to a read aloud of Martins Big Words and worked on vocabulary, they did a STEM project to create a podium and created a mural.

 Starting to work on the mural  Mural Peach justice    Mural Friendship   Finished mural  podium with no color  podium with color  podium with mic  Planning for podium Starting to work on podium   podium with clay mic  Listening to Martins Big Words  Martins Big Words questions  Podium with lots of clay  podium with notes 

Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who is sometimes called “The Princess of Polka Dots”. Although she makes lots of different types of art, paintings, sculptures, performances and installations, they have one thing in common-DOTS! For this project, the students learned all about Yoyoi Kusama and her artwork. We focused on how she uses dots to show depth in her pumpkins. We also noticed the different patterns in the background and foreground. Next, we drew pumpkins on colored construction paper, added dots with black paint and oil pastels for the patterns in the background and foreground. Mrs. Weiss-Visual Arts 1st Grade

  • quote from parent
  • Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Blue
  • Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Orange
  • Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin wide pumpkin
  • Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin pink
  • Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin many dots
  • quote from parent
  • Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Blue

P.S. 144Q's Let's Rock This School Year Event

3K-5th grade students and their families came to the school to draw or write messages on rocks. 

 

 Rocks that are painted.  

  • A teacher painting an "S" on a rock.
  • Group of rocks!
  • Painted rocks.
  • All different color rocks.
  • People at the event.
  • Picking out a rock to paint.
  • Painting rocks together.
  • Painting rocks under the blue tent.
  • Painting rocks with friends.
  • A group of children painting rocks.
  • Having fun painting rocks together.
  • A teacher painting a rock.
  • Working hard painting a rock.
  • Having fun painting a rock.
  • Painting a colorful rock.
  • Coloring a rock.
  • Helping the students pick out a rock to paint.
  • Working on their rock to paint.
  • Picking what color to paint the rock.
  • A beautiful painted rock.
  • Painting a face on a rock.
  • Using different colors to paint a rock.

    Using lots of colors to paint a rock. 

  • Painting a pink rock.
  • Painting a red rock.
  • A rock with a flower painted on it.
  • A teacher painting an "S" on a rock.
  • Group of rocks!