Fourth Grade

Our fourth grade students have been working on a very personal project...creating a personal mandala. Mandalas are symbols in a circular format that represent a person’s wholeness (what that person thinks about that brings them peacefulness). Mandalas are a means of self-reflection.


Most students are currently working on completing the artwork for this project.
This project has been a great collaboration with all the fourth grade teachers!

Featured Artist: Lauren

Third Grade

The third grade students have been learning about the element of LINE in art. This project taught the students how horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines can be put together to create a picture.

Stay tuned for the next project when the students will learn about expressive line and how the artist, Wassily Kandinsky, used line in art in connection with music.



Featured Artist: Kaiser

Second Grade

The second grade students have been studying the work of artist, Marc Chagall. We have learned that his artwork was based on memories of his childhood in Russia and that the style of his art is "dream-like." The students created their own dream-like paintings and included a famous quote by Marc Chagall..."Great art starts where nature ends."

Featured Artist: Anna

First Grade

During the snowy month of January, the first grade students made "snowy day" collages based on the book The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Ask a first grader how we made the picture look snowy.

Featured Artist: Andrew

January 25, 2009

Pictured are some examples of the Charlestown School student artwork featured at the Courthouse Center for the Arts in Kingston, RI during their student exhibit last month.

Upcoming exhibits:

YAM (Youth Art Month) Exhibit at the Courthouse Center for the Arts during the month of March

Artessy at the Chariho Middle School - March 27th and 28th