Category 6th Grade

All are invited to the student music recitals on Thursday, March 3rd, at 7:00 p.m. at the Wauconda Area Library! Come one, come all to the Wauconda Area Library and hear the beautiful music presented by the students in 4th…

6th, 7th & 8th Grade Magazine The sixth, seventh, and eighth graders have been hard at work over the past few weeks creating a school magazine. With the help of Mrs. Fiskum and her journalistic prowess, the students were able…

6th, 7th & 8th Grades: Sculpture & Clay Modeling Half-size heads Using terra cotta clay, students in 6th, 7th and 8th grades created half-size heads modeled after their own noggins. This one is Ben Hurt-Haller's. You might not recognize the…

Upper Grades Farm & Garden Class—Building Brooding Boxes for the Bees The 4th and 5th grade class and the 6th, 7th and 8th grade class have been building brood boxes for the bees. Next week we will continue doing this…

6th, 7th & 8th Grades—Printmaking Watercolored Block Prints The 6th, 7th and 8th graders have spent many weeks going through the steps to create these unique pieces of art. First they created original drawings during their study of illuminated letters…

Handwork Happenings Left: The 4th grade student is doing cross stitch embroidery. The final result will be a hand-sewn pencil case. Right: The 6th, 7th and 8th graders are hand-sewing cloth elephants, using patterns of their own making, based on…

6th, 7th & 8th Grades: Seed Drawing The medium of seed drawing stands between the two dimensions of drawing and the three dimensions of modeling, making it possible for students to easily adjust the straightness or curve of a line…