8th Grade Begins to Create

In their first studio class, 8th Graders completed their first observation drawing of a potted flowering plant and they will continue to draw the same plant once a month as the plant grows and blooms. Students will make clay pots to repot the plants in the coming months, and in the spring we will plant them outside and continue our observation drawings once a month outside. Today student's began creating their flower pots using various clay hand building techniques, such as slab, coil, braids, and spheres. Students also continued to practice their centering and on the wheel so they can eventually make a 6"Hx4"D flower pot on the pottery wheel.