Elementary Art Classes By: Tina Gniffke

For Christmas the elementary is working on christmasy projects. Mrs. Barb Miller is helping the kids with projects. Like Second grade is working on sponge painting snowmen. Fifth Grade is also sponge painting, poinsettias. They use different sponges and white temperate paint to make Snowmen. Then to make the poinsettias they used sponges and red and green temperate paint. Third Grade is making optical illusions. Then Fourth Grade are making “wax resist” Christmas trees. Wax resist is wax and water colors then they paint beautiful christmas trees. Kindergarten is making construction Christmas trees. They cut different size rectangles and paste them on construction paper then use different materials like ribbon,and glitter. You can see some of their projects pictured online at www.artsonia.com.

Dance for a Cause

On December 18, 2009, Deuel High School students attended a dance held at the school. The admission was three dollars per person. Student Council sponsored the dance, they provide the DJ and chaperones. "I'm glad we had a good turn out for the dance, because it goes toward a good cause." Student Council President, Lauren Brandt said. The DJ was Deuel High School Senior, Matthew Goens. The dance was held in the Deuel Gymnasium, and went from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. This dance was for a beneficial cause. All proceeds from this dance went toward the Marty Kranz Scholarship fund. The school is involved in other fundraising activities too. Last year, the school held a Marty Kranz night at a basketball double header. It included a silent auction, an SDSU ice cream feed, and a supper feed. Also last year, there was a Marty Kranz night at a football game in which free donations were given. A donation of $2,000 was given toward the fund from Mike Thyen. This was the money Thyen made from training and selling the puppies from Kranz's dog. There has been discussion of doing another Marty Kranz night at a game this winter. So far, the Marty Kranz Scholarship Committee has raised $7,500 for the fund, and the goal is $10,000. Once the fund reaches $10,000, the Marty Kranz Scholarship Committee will invest it into a endowment where the principal is invested permanently and they will receive interest every year, which will be payed out for scholarships. The Committee will continue to raise money after the $10,000 is reached to increase fund, and to give out bigger scholarships each year!

Blue Mosque Mural

Deuel High School students have been working hard on an Art project for English teacher, Samantha Walder. Periods 6th, 7th, and 8th have been working on a mural of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. Te Blue Mosque is one of the largest mosques in the world today. "This picture was taken in the evening from the Asian side of Istanbul," said Mrs. Samantha Walder.

"This project has been going on for 3 weeks, so thats about 36 man hours. I decided to do this project because it's a collaborate project, and artists need to work together because we don't live in the world in isolation. Everybody had to do a piece of the sky, and a piece of the building, so they had to have at least 2 pieces, but some did more. Everyone wanted to do the sky, but I said they had to do one of both," says Barb Miller, the high school Art instructor.

Mrs. Walder wanted this project done for her classroom to hang up on her wall. She wants to expose more people to some of the beauty that Turkey has to offer. "My favorite part about this project was doing what you see in your square, and then looking at everyone's around you and seeing that they are so different, then you laugh at it and say oops I did mine wrong," said Tabitha Rossow, a sophomore.

This project has been a challenge for the high school students. "The hardest part was getting all the details in there, the shadows, and making things look 3-D," said Michelle Pederson, sophomore. The mural had to be done by the end of the semester and hung up in Walder's room.

Kjirstin A.

Top Ten Christmas Gift Wishes

10. New Luggage
9. Touch Screen Phone
8. New Clothes
7. Digital Photo Frame
6. New Moon Movie when it comes out
5. Laptop
4. LCD TV
3. Mustang Gt 2010
2. Playstation III
1. Ipod Touch

Tasha Gniffke and I are doing a top ten on our wishes for Christmas, all of these things are pretty popular. Christmas is just around the corner so its time to display your Christmas lists where everyone can see them. Parents and grandparents always ask what you'd like for Christmas.