Kinder"garden" Showcase

Congratulations to our PK and Kindergarten students on their concert performance today! Each class represented a different part of our Kinder-"Garden." During art class, students created masks according to their theme, such as the sun, trees, insects, flowers and rain. We made our own textured painted paper and used them to make our colorful masks!

Thank you to all the Hosmer families for coming to support & experience what the students made and learned this year!

Carnival of the Animals Masks

For their upcoming June concert, PK and K artists made animal masks to connect to the Carnival of the Animals songs they have been learning in music! Each class was given a different animal. 

We began with a white mask template and painted them. We also painted paper to use for different parts, like ears, as well as for the background. After the painted mask had dried, we added different cut out details to represent the animal. 

Mrs. Martignetti’s class created elephants, using their painted gray paper to add large ears and folding a piece of painted paper for the long trunk. 

Mrs. Beatty’s class made lions, using their painted yellow and orange paper to add ears and a mane. We also added a nose with black paper. 

Mrs. Segreve’s class created donkeys, using their painted gray paper for ears and adding a tuft of hair and a snout to represent the donkey. 

Mrs. Blackwood’s class got fish, so we used painted purple and blue paper to add fins and scales around our masks. 

Mrs. Bolton’s class made kangaroo masks, adding long ears with painted paper and a heart shaped nose. 

Ms. Mattson’s class created colorful birds, painting the mask red, blue or yellow and adding colorful feathers and an orange beak that pops out. 

Finally, Mrs. Tan’s class made swans, drawing a black design around the eyes and adding white feathers. They also created beaks using orange paper that pop out by folding them and gluing down the sides. 

Classes also helped make backgrounds for the show, collaborating on large murals. Some classes cut out leaves from painted green paper, and other classes worked on an underwater background. Look for our masks and background at the concert this Friday, June 17!

Paper Masks

3rd grade artists created paper sculptures recently, experimenting with different ways of manipulating paper, a 2D material, to transform it into 3D forms and shapes. They then used this experience to create paper masks, utilizing some of the 3D paper techniques they learned.

First, we discussed masks and when one might wear a mask. Students shared that they had worn masks for Halloween, costume or masquerade parties, and for sports. Then students looked at a variety of masks from different tribes and countries in Africa.

We learned that many African masks are created to be worn in ceremonies and events and many have a spiritual meaning for the tribe. Often symmetrical in design, some of the designs combine animal and human characteristics. They are made of wood, metal or pottery and decorated with materials such as animal hair, straw, horns, feathers and shells.

We then began making our own masks. Beginning with the mask's shape, students folded their paper in half to create a symmetrical shape. They then added details, such as eyes, noses, hair, mouths, etc. Students used some of the techniques they had explored the previous class to bend, fold, twist and curl the paper to make it pop and stand up.

Some students made their masks to be worn, while others kept them more decorative. 

Here are some examples of our paper masks! Some of them are currently on display in the connector hallway for the Extravaganza.