March '17

Hilltop Library Collaborative ART PROJECT

Students are working together to construct a collaborative art project. ALL students are working toward ONE  beautiful reward. Students earn stickers at various times throughout the week.  They then collaborate, pay close attention to details by following the color code, and apply their stickers.  Students have been making predictions, community-building, and earning lots of stickers. The end result...a school-wide collaborative ART project. What do you think it will become?

Hilltop Library Celebrates National Women’s History Month!

We have been reading and researching amazing women @ the Hilltop Library! Students in 3rd and 4th grades conducted mini-research using various print and digital sources. In grades K-4 we have been exploring nonfiction, biography, and of course referring to www.loc.gov for some wonderful primary sources!!

We will be kicking off the READING WITHOUT WALLS program challenge @ the Hilltop Library after spring break. Stay on the lookout for more information about this wonderful reading challenge brought to us by the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Gene Luen Yang. All students will have an opportunity to participate in this challenge in various forms.

Questions?? email: lemay@mendhamboroschools.org

Art:  March is National Youth Art month! We are celebrating it with the annual exhibition of students’ artworks at the Mendham Public Library.  Please come and enjoy the artworks made by many Mendham students from Hilltop and Mountainview.  The exhibition will be held until the end of March.  Thank you for your support!

Hilltop artists will be showing their artworks on paper this month at the Mendham Public Library.  Due to the lack of space, we can only afford to exhibit only a sampling of the artworks by the lower grades.  However, the prints made by entire fourth graders will be displayed. There will be portraits, landscapes, still lifes as well as a sprinkle of folk art and pictures using different styles.   

Congratulations to the following Hilltop students for their artworks exhibited:

The entire fourth grade class

Lucas A

Zoya A

Fiona C

Jake C

Max C

Tyler D

Matthew D

Mallory F

Sarah F

Beckett G

Cassidy G

Ella O

Nikola H

Colin J

Avril K

Olivia K

Mackenzie K

Lila K

Tess K

Jack M

Stella M

Will M

Annabel N

Matthew P

Sophie P

Catherine R

Josh S

Amanda S

Jessica

Jedd V

Dasha Z

In the art room, our fourth graders have begun the weaving lesson and are thoroughly enjoying the therapeutic activity.  Third graders are working on creating artwork applying different principles of design. They are also practicing using mixed media to create artworks.  Second graders are working on the next element of art -- form.  Using soft pastels, they are learning to highlight and shade to transform a flat shape into a three-dimensional form.  Their Birds on a Tree pictures exhibiting this concept may be seen at the art show.  First graders have finished their folk art unit, and have started to learn about different famous artists and their styles.  We are starting out with Joan Miro and his abstract art and continuing to Vincent Van Gogh.  Kindergarteners are introduced to famous artists as well.  This month, they are creating delightful stabiles in the style of Alexander Calder who is most famous for his mobiles.