I hope you all have a fantastic summer!! 

If you are feeling artsy this summer there are a lot of cool art activities around in the area. 

There are several First Friday Art Walks.  Most people are familiar with the Santa Fe Art Walk, but there are some new art districts that have started their own art walks. Below are some links to those for more information. 

Santa Fe Art Walk

Golden Triangle Museum District

RiNo Art Walk

Block 7 Art Walk

The Denver area is also host to a number of cool Art Festivals and events (the first one starting THIS weekend)! Check out the list below to see some of the cool events! 

MAY

May 23-24
ArtStir Denver

May 22-24
Downtown Denver Arts Festival

JUNE

June 6-7
Denver Chalk Art Festival 
*A good friend of mine participates in this as an artist every year!

June 13
FARMCAD Food, Art and Craft Festival

JULY

July 3-5
Cherry Creek Arts Festival
*A friend of mine (Jerry Brem) from college will be showing at this festival again this year.  It is considered the most prestigious of all Art Festivals across the U.S.

July 11
FARMCAD Food, Art and Craft Festival

July 18-19
Pearl Street Art Fest

July 25 -26
3rd Annual Cheesman Park Art Festival

Have a great summer! Maybe I will see you on a First Friday Art Walk or at one of the Art Festivals this summer!  Hope you come back to school this fall refreshed, inspired and ready to create some awesome things in art class!!!

Dance Party

Every year we like to celebrate the end of the school with a Dance Party.

To celebrate take one day and during specials we gather the entire grade 

level in the gym, turn off the lights and jam out with glow lights! 

We do all-dances, competitions and this year we tried doing 

Jam-Circles so that individual students could showcase their skills. 

It was a BLAST! What a fun way to celebrate a FANTASTIC year at TTE! 

Below is a collage of some of fun moments! 

5th Grade Art Club Party

The 5th Graders had a rockin' Art Club Party!  

We had lots of food, including the most creative snack ever

to be had at an Art Club Party!  

Sarah B. brought these creative "paintbrush" rice-crispy treats. 

Soooooo cool!!!! 

Students worked hard on their projects. 

The result was some very cool wearable and usable products.

Trey worked hard on his volleyball. 

Evie's Awesome shoes.

Liam had a cool idea to make the toes of his Chuck-Taylor's 

look like X-Ray.

More awesome shoes.

Keenan worked on some cool socks. 

Field Day 2015

Friday, May 15 was our 2015 Field Day

It was both Sunny and Soggy, but it was an awesome Field Day!  

Thursday, May 14 Mrs. Berndt, Mrs. Johnston and I got permission to use sidewalk chalk to leave a fun Field Day message for TTE students on the Golf Course Spillway. Unfortunately the rain the evening before washed our message away. Luckily we took a photo so that I could post it here. 

During WOLF Time, fourth graders helped design and name some of our stations.  Some of their ideas were modified to service the entire school. Lead  and organized by Mr. Newman and Mrs. Johnston, all Timber Trail Students participated in fun and challenging activities that are challenging and build community. I was not able to get to every station for pictures, but below are a few fun pictures the fantastic events I was able to experience.  

Tug of War

 Marble Mining

Community Chalk Art

(my personal favorite station...for obvious reasons)

 Jump Ropes and Hoops

Para-Crew Parachutes

 Rest and Recovery with Popsicles 

Puzzle Relay

 Potato Sack Races

Timber Trails

 TTE Ninja Warrior Challenge (Obstacle Course)

Douglas County School District Awards Exhibition

Last week we announced four students who were selected to have their artwork displayed at the Douglas County Awards Exhibition.  That reception was held Monday, May 11th at the Pace Center in Parker.

There were lots of yummy treats for everyone. 

First grader Olivia Dunn was the recipient of a Wow! Award for her beautiful Mother's Day Flower collage. 

Emma Kim won First Place for Second Grade for the Air Academy Federal Credit Union Scholarship award.  She received $25. Everyone loved her Clay Bird.

Madeline Leonardi won First Place for Third Grade for the Air Academy Federal Credit Union Scholarship Award. She received $25 for her Calaveras (Sugar Skull). 

Fifth grader Sadie Rowe won for grade 4-6 in the entire Highlands Ranch area. She receive a Scholarship Award from Douglas County Schools of $120 for her stone carved Elephant.  It was presented by our School Board President, Kevin Larsen.

Congratulations to these talented Artists from Timber Trail. 

*Thanks to Jennifer Kim and Jennifer Rowe the photos used in this blog post! 

5th Grade Step Dancers!

Fifth grade students worked extremely  hard all year on their dance. They chose Stepping, or Step Dancing as their style this year. 

Yesterday was Variety Show Day! That means the 5th grade finally performed the dance that they have been working on all year! This year they chose Stepping (or Street Step Dancing) as their theme.  This years group accomplished many "firsts." They were the first group to dance without a soundtrack.  The were also the first to create their own music using body percussion. They were the first to  create  a dance that was 100% student choreographed. As you can tell by the photo. The are the first group to design and create a backdrop for their performance. They chose a graffiti theme, since Stepping is primarily a street dance. Below is a link to the final dress rehearsal video. 

https://youtu.be/2wGMpIgMITk

Fourth Grade Art Club Party

Monday Evening we had the fourth grade Art Club party.  Students from both semesters were invited to attend. 

We had quite the spread. Check out all of the yummies students provided for munching! 

Students also brought in cool items like hats, t-shirts, shoes, bags...etc... to decorate using special fabric markers.  Below are some photos of them hard at work. 

Below are some of the finished creations!