Happy 2026! Here’s to a new year of creativity!
Howe Library
During the months of March and April the Howe Library in Hanover, NH proudly displays artwork of our Lower and Middle School students. I hope you can stop by!
Student ART Portfolios
Be on the look out toward the end of the school year. Your child will be bringing home a collection of their artwork in a portfolio!
Kindergarten
MICE ON ICE & PENGUIN PALS: Kindergarten students learned about Ed Emberley, author and artist who has created more than 100 children’s books since 1965. After reading this tale students were inspired to create a mixed-media seasonal collage. Using their fingerprints to create their Mice on Ice! Using a variety of hand building techniques Kindergarten students sculpted their own penguin pal.
First Grade
EGYPTIAN CARTOUCHE, WILLIAM THE HIPPO AND SCARAB BETTLES: Students created a few integrated projects to complement their Egyptian Museum. Each student created a 3D sculpted hippo in honor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s mascot that was found in an ancient Egyptian tomb. They also created cartouches using hieroglyphics to form the initials of their names. In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a line at one end tangent to it, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name.
Second Grade
TAJ MAHAL: After learning about Ancient India in the classroom students looked at the wonder of the Taj Mahal. Using symmetry and color temperatures to capture its architectural beauty.
SQUIRREL’S EYE VIEW SNOW FIGURES: Second grade students created these “squirrel eye view” perspective snow figures. Inspired by the book, The First Day of Winter by Denise Fleming.
Third Grade
SNOW-FIGURES AT NIGHT: Third grade students created these snow figures. Inspired by the book, Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Beuhner. Students were tasked to have their snow figure demonstrate shadows, mid tones, and highlights created by this moonlit scene. After, they added fun details to bring their snow figure to life set in a snowy night time landscape.
Fourth Grade
GARGOYLE MASKS: Fourth grade students completed their medieval gargoyles of Notre-Dame. After sculpting with plaster students applied a paint and sand compound to simulate stone.
STARRY NIGHT TREES: Fourth grade students learned about artist Vincent van Gogh. As we examined his famous painting, The Starry Night. Taking inspiration from his swirling night sky, students explored layering textural strokes into the silhouette of trees.
Fifth Grade
ONE-POINT PERSPECTIVE NAMES: Fifth grade students designed their own drawings by practicing one and two-point perspective and then using a vanishing-point perspective to create depth. Understanding Renaissance ideals and the era’s respect for classical antiquity, and Renaissance artists’ mastery of vanishing-point perspective.
