Artists by Jack M.

This month during Art, we are learning about Van Gogh. Van Gogh sold a few paintings, but after he died, some of his paintings became priceless! Van Gogh lived 37 years and started painting when he was 27 that means he only painted for 10 years. In 1888, Vincent left Paris and went to a French town called Arles. The reason we are learning about Van Gogh is because every month we learn about a new artist so we can learn about different styles of art.

What's Up in Gym Class by Mason

Gym at Knollwood is really fun but it is also extremely different from other classes because you use your body and you get to run.

At gym, the gym teacher, Mr. Lydon, knows a lot of fun games, and even if it's an ordinary game like tag, he knows a really fun way to play it. One of the best games is Capture the Flag, which is the first game we learned.

How you play Capture the Flag is there are two teams and two sides. When the game starts, you try to run or you can try to tag people who are on your side but on the other team. If you run, you have to try to grab a "flag" which could be anything to represent it. If you grab a flag from the box, you are safe, but when you leave the box, you have to run to your side. If you get tagged, you have to go to jail.

When you go to jail, you have to wait for someone on your team to rescue you by running across to the jail without getting tagged.

Gym, in my opinion, is the best subject because you get to run around and have a lot of fun.

Fun Art by Michael

When Mr. Z showed us the Jackson Pollock project, we all got excited. We thought it was splatter paint, but we would put the paint down and blow it with a straw. And at the end of the day, Mr. Z showed us jacksonpollock.org. It was really cool. I even go to it when I get bored. You can visit it at: jacksonpollock.org.

Gym at Knollwood School by Caroline

Running, throwing, catching...they're all part of one special: Gym. At Gym currently, we are in our basketball unit. In this unit we are dribbling, passing, shooting, and hustling.

If it is a very nice day out, we might go outside and play Capture the Flag. It's when there are two sides of the field and each side has a jail and a ball box. Everyone starts with four balls. To win you need to have all eight balls in your ball box.

Gym is really exciting. We go to it every Tuesday from 2:00 to 3:00.

What We Do at Art! by Aloka

At Art, we do so many fun and interesting things. We learn about 3D drawings, overlapping, cubism, and so much more interesting things. We also make skeletons out of paper, straw, and glue, we sketch whatever we want, we paint, color, trace people and SO MUCH MORE.

Art is great for expressing your imagination. What else would have made video games video games? Without art, there would be no video games! And I know a lot of people like video games very much.

(Note from the teachers: the video above contains photos that were taken or drawn and edited into a movie by Aloka. Caroline assisted with some of the sound effects and narration.)