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    • Learn About Our Parish
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    • Mission Statement
    • School Advisory Council
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    • 75th Anniversary Magazine
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    • Apply Now
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    • Scholarships & Tuition Assistance
    • Re-Enrollment 2023-24
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      • Kindergarten
      • First Grade
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    • Middle School Division
    • Specialized Areas >
      • Spanish
      • Art/Art Tech
      • Music
      • Library / Media Center
      • Physical Education
      • Computer Class
    • Resource Department
    • Academic Excellence >
      • Curriculum
      • Accelerated Reader Program
      • Read With Me
    • Wildcat Saint Teachers
  • Student Life
    • Handbook and Forms
    • Uniforms
    • After School Program
    • Spiritual Life >
      • All Saints Day
      • Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
      • First Friday Morning Prayer
      • JOY Soup Kitchen
      • Rosary Circle
      • Rosary Making Club
      • Service Learning
    • Athletics
    • Extracurricular Activities >
      • Battle of the Books
      • Hoopsters
      • Junior Beta Club
      • Math Super Stars
      • Music
      • Strings Program
      • Robotics Team
      • Science Olympiad
      • Young Actors Workshop
    • Wildcat Nation Expectations
    • Wildcat Saints
    • Wildcat Spirit Rock
    • Prayer Partners
    • Supply and Reading Lists
  • Giving
    • Laurel Walsh Fund
    • Wildcat Wednesdays
    • Halloween Carnival
    • Brick Campaign
    • Teacher Wish Lists
    • Donate Now
  • Quick Links
    • New Families
    • FACTS Family Portal Link
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Stations of the Cross, Butterflies, and Mini-golf

3/26/2023

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This week's student art is from the 1st grade symmetrical butterfly project, the 7th grade mini-golf design project, and the 8th grade Stations of the Cross project.

The grid method was employed by 8th graders to make free-hand pencil and ink drawings of illustrations by contemporary artist Shari Van Vranken.  Students photographed their drawings and colored their photos in the Sketchbook app on their iPads.

For the mini-golf project, 7th graders used only the the basic shape tools of Tinkercad computer-aided design software to create the complex forms in their virtual 3D models. This interdisciplinary assignment involves creative engineering and math calculations. It was developed and is taught by Mr. Bell and Mrs. Cvetan.

In art class, first graders have learned about symmetry by drawing half of a butterfly on a folded piece of paper, cutting it out, and then unfolding the paper.  Crayons were used to color the butterflies.  Flowers and other landscape components were made with cut colored paper.  Students used glue sticks to affix the butterflies and the other objects to a background paper.
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Natalie Reid
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Eliana Gonzalez
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Corina Perez
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Marshall Wingfield
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Maxy Morgado
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Victoria Castillo
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Adamaris Cruz
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Declan Hildebrand
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Lenna Alarcon-Lawrence
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Cathryn Crabtree
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Cassie Meadows
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Mary Roberts Eason
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Janai King
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Ava Walsh
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Jacob Sutton
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Katie Sconiers
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Sevvy Ludwig
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Jennings Vincent
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Benjamin Morse
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Lena Walter
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Andrew Johnston
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Piper Goodwin
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4th Grade Art Tech

3/17/2023

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Fourth grade art students have recently been working with Sketch Up for Schools Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software on their Chromebooks to create sailboats in an environment.  Many of the fourth graders' finished works are shown in this presentation.  Several of the fourth graders will continue working on their boat scenes next week.  

Sketch Up for Schools is a free cloud-based software that students access through their school Google accounts.  Sketch Up Pro is widely used by architects and structural designers.  The student and professional versions of Sketch Up are very similar. As Sketch Up for Schools is geometry-based, students are provided with an educational opportunity in math, as well as a stepping stone toward various professions which employ engineering and architectural 3D modeling software.

Our students make all of their forms with the tools of the program, and are never allowed to use downloaded or pre-constructed forms in their Sketch Up work. The tools the fourth graders have been using include line, rectangle, push-pull, select, flip, offset, rotate, move, scale, and bucket fill (for colors).

One of the photos below shows the steps that Muna Akubue of 4P used to create her boats.
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Muna Akubue
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Eva Bunn
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Kate Brockway
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Mili Genao
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Juliana Gonzalez
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Hughes Harris
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Julieta Wayar
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Joey Burgess
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Thomas D'Alonzo
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Muna Akubue
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Thomas I.
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Kate Loesner
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Mary Kate Connelly
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Gabi Dunn
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Driver Vincent
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Jesus Garcia
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Ava Blanchard
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Luke Walter
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Noelle Doggett
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Kayden Mitchell
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Putt-Putt Design

3/10/2023

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This week's student art is from the 7th grade mini-golf lane design project. The basic shape tools of Tinkercad computer-aided design software were used to make the complex forms in these virtual 3D models. This math-art assignment, which involves creative engineering and math calculations, was developed and is taught by Mr. Bell and Mrs. Cvetan.

The beautifully creative and innovative images produced by students for this project have been made entirely with Tinkercad software, except for the work of Austin Ju. He created a laptop computer model with the basic shape and text tools of Tinkercad. However, the images on his virtual computer's monitor are screenshots of his Tinkercad work for the mini-golf project, which he made on his iPad. He arranged photos of his mini-golf lane on a photo of his laptop model in the Sketchbook app on his iPad.  

In the world of Austin's image, the mini-golf design was created by the laptop computer. The laptop computer was created by Austin on his iPad. If we consider this image in the context of recent advances in computer technologies and artificial intelligence, we might ask ourselves who created the mini-golf design in Austin's picture. Was it made by Austin or by the virtual model of the laptop computer?     
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Austin Ju
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Jules Bowling
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Nathan Wright
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Alicia Baumgartner
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Brooke Owens
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Nate Coidan
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Nick Coggins
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Stelling Harris
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Raffy Balanay
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Ewan Kim
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Birds of Springtime

3/6/2023

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This week's student art features watercolor paintings by 2nd graders.  Students drew, cut, and assembled relatively simple paper shapes to make the more complex structures of the birds.  The watercolor shapes and crayon line patterns in the sky echo the shapes of the birds, thus helping to create compositional unity in the paintings. ​
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Jackson White
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Hadley Lewis
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Robbie Gottschalk
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Piper Burgweger
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Jesus Morgado
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Will Wilson
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Amelia Chriscoe
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Lennon Gibson
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Cullen Garner
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Charlotte Ju
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Stations of the Cross and Mini-Golf

2/24/2023

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This week's Art Tech student work is from the 8th grade Stations of the Cross project and the 7th grade mini-golf design project. The 8th graders used the grid method to make free-hand pencil drawings of illustrations by contemporary artist Shari Van Vranken.  The students colored photos of their own drawings in the Sketchbook app on their iPads.  Seventh graders created their mini-golf lanes and the surrounding thematic sculptural forms with Tinkercad computer-aided design software on their iPads.   Dimensions of the putting lanes and walls are used for performing math calculations.  Students engineered all of the complex 3D forms in their models using only the simple shape tools of Tinkercad. This math-art interdisciplinary project was developed by Mr. Bell and Mrs. Cvetan, who teach it collaboratively.
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Ana Luisa Sensi
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Jana Silver
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Julia Cadierno
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Anna Turrone
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Claire McDonald
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Abby Guidry
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Cara Morris
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Jack DuBose
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Thomas Stroud
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Asher High
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​Mini-golf, Kindergarten Giraffes, and Origami Birds

2/19/2023

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Seventh graders have recently been creating mini-golf lanes (or holes) with Tinkercad computer-aided design software on their iPads.   Mr. Bell and Mrs. Cvetan developed this  math-art integrated STREAM assignment.  In the first stage of the project, students create and label the segments of their putting lanes, as well as obstacles that contact the putting surface.  In Mrs. Cvetan's math class, students use measurements of components of their models to calculate surface area, volume, perimeter, and cost of materials.  Their math calculations relate to the putting surface and walls.  Students express themselves creatively by making elaborate sculptural forms above or around the putting area.  In addition to their time in art class, students of 7W and 7C have been team-taught by Mrs. Cvetan and Mr. Bell for about 45 minutes per week.  All of the forms in these virtual 3D models were created by our student artists with only the simple shape tools of the Tinkercad engineering software.
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Carter Davenport
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Abby Flowers
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Lauren Brockway
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Garrett Stokes
For their giraffe paintings, kindergarten art students traced cardboard rectangles to draw the main shapes of the bodies of the animals.  By arranging the rectangles to create the general shapes of the giraffes, students learned that simple shapes can be used to make more complex forms.  Tempera paint was applied with cotton swabs and fingers.
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Graham Hildebrand
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Collin Phillips
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Ruthie Godwin
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Teddy Compton
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Liz Perkins
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Parker Palumbo
The below Videos titled "5 Green Art Class Flapping Birds" and "5 Blue Art Class Flapping Birds" show our fifth graders flapping the wings of their origami creations and practicing their bird calls. 
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8th Grade Stations of the Cross

2/10/2023

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Many 8th graders in art tech class are now applying color to their pencil drawings of the Stations of the Cross.  They are using the tools of the Sketchbook app on their iPads. Although our students employ modern digital technology to develop their images, the basis of their work on this project is free-hand drawing with pencils and pens.
 
To begin this project, students drew grids with 1/2-inch squares on small prints of illustrations by contemporary artist Shari Van Vranken.  They drew proportionate grids with 1-inch squares on their drawing papers in order to scale up the images they were viewing.

The works shown here are among the first to be finished.  Many more very strong images are nearing completion.  Students have been highly motivated on this project because it allows them to express their faith in a creative and challenging way.
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Kensey Caporossi
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Piper Cartwright
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Aiden Williams
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Celia Bansah
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Noah Cox
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Milly Williams
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Webb Evans
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Anna Vause McCarthy
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Brinn Skalak
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Ava Thomas
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3rd Grade Hound Dogs

2/2/2023

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In art class, third graders have been creating doghouses, dog pens, and dogs with Sketch Up for Schools computer-aided design software on their Chromebooks.  This geometry-based architectural software allows students to integrate their creative art production with math and engineering.  Students of the 3H art class are shown here with their drawings of dogs.  Soon, students will use the "scale" tool to resize their dogs and move them into their pens.
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6th graders begin animal and plant cell pillows

1/29/2023

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Sixth grade art tech students are currently working on the sewing stage of their cell pillow sculptures. This STEM-oriented project began last semester with drawings of animal and plant cells.  Students photographed their drawings and labelled them with the Sketchbook app on their iPads.

Recently, students traced the outer edges of photocopies of their cell drawings onto sheets of felt cloth. The "running stitch" is used for sewing along the traced edges to join the two halves of each cell.  A "pull-through hole" is left open so the joined sheets can be turned inside-out after excess cloth around the cell is cut away. Poly-fill stuffing packs the interior of each cell. Students use the "whip stitch" to seal the pull-through hole.

After completing the basic pillow form, students will refer to their drawings as they carefully design organelles for their cells.  The organelles will primarily be made from cloth scraps that are left over from the construction of the basic pillow forms.  The organelles will be attached to the surface with fabric glue.
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8th grade artwork in progress

1/22/2023

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​8th graders in art tech class continue to advance on their Stations of the Cross pencil and pen drawings, which they will soon develop into colorful digital images.  Grids and pencil marks are visible in some of the drawings shown here, while some have black marker pen lines and white spaces that have been electronically "cleaned up" in the Sketchbook app on students' iPads. Although our students employ modern electronic technology to develop their images, the basis of their work on this project is the ancient drawing method of carefully observing and analyzing a subject, and using tools (pencil and pen) to transfer visual information to a physical surface (cardstock).

For this project, students have drawn grids with 1/2-inch squares on small prints of illustrations by contemporary artist Shari Van Vranken.  They have made proportionate grids with 1-inch squares on their drawing papers in order to scale up the images which they are observing.  This method was widely used by artists during the Renaissance to scale up drawings to larger formats.
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Brinn Skalak
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Milly Williams
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Jana Silver
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Grace Carroll
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Ava Thomas
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Piper Cartwright
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Eliana Gonzalez
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Abby Guidry
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Aiden Williams
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Anna Turrone
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