6th graders have been working hard to finish up their projects before the end of the year rolls around. Here are a few more in progress/ done self portraits and guitar projects. The self-portraits have been proving to be a time consuming project. Students are showing a lot of dedication and they are turning out better than I expected. I have been helping with some eye balls and mouths, but otherwise, they have been filling in with all the magazine and creating beautiful value-scale renditions of their faces. Guitars turned out to be a two month project. I am so thrilled that I picked a theme that kept students motivated throughout all the steps of the project. We are finallly adding the final touches and students are taking their instruments home. It is great to see the rock bands performing at the end of the day during bus duty. We used screws and popsicle sticks for the tuning pegs at the top of the guitars. The students are really proud of these two projects and it is so awesome to see their excitement when they get to take them home!!
6th graders are creating collage self- portraits. I took a picture of each of their faces and then went into photoshop and printed them out in black and white with a posterized filter over them. This way students could pick one color and create a value scale on their face. We learned about 
