Twirl visits TISA Once Again!

Our 4th 5th and 8th graders made amazing fractal art. We will be combining our work together to make a sculpture which will be displayed in the 4th grade classroom in the nest few weeks. Thank you to all the amazing students who worked on this project!

 

TISA 5th grade enjoys learning about Fractals !

On Tuesday, TISA 5th graders were given a lesson about fractals and explored the many concepts using various materials. Next Tuesday we will make art objects using what we learned. Here are some pictoral highlights from our experiences.

TISA 5th grade Tinwork Extravaganza!

Today the 5th grade participated in a tinwork workshop with visiting artist Kim Pollis. They made animal masks of bears, linx, wolves and foxes. Take a look at their work!

Tin Artist Kim Pollis reviews the local history of tinwork in Taos. 

Amalea works on her linx!

Josie works on a detail.

Rochelle concentrates on her fine details.

Tehya contemplates her fox!

Kyra gets some help from Kim.

Emily nears completion!

Jacob takes his time.

Zach uses the flat head screw driver with skill!

Alexander pays attention to his details!

Carlitos puts on the finishing touches!

Patricia Michaels vists TISA

Last week world famous Patricia Michaels visited TISA and shared her amazing talent with the students. She helped the students create their original wrist bands!

Patricia explaining her philosophy of life!

Wow! It takes math to design!

The berry dress!

Carlos creates his wrist band.

TISA 5th graders shine!

The 5th grade of TISA performed The Little Prince of Egypt to an appreciative, packed audience on Thursday, December 15th! They wowed with a performance of dancing, singing and rap! Congratulations to them all!

Tehya Jeffs and Joaquinn Varela pose in front of our sarcophagus!

The Pharaoh is ready to rule! 

Our cast of actors are ready to present: monkeys, narrator, Egyptian father and out of this world character!

Our amazing narrators: Kael Sadler and Amethyst Yepa-Morales!

S-s-s-serpent Alexander Ribeiro. What a great make up job by Alexandra Hernandez!

Alexander and Aurora enjoying delicious Taos Cow ice cream in the sarcophagus!

How the Grand Canyon was Formed! Really?!

The TISA 5th graders have begun learning about landforms. This week our scientists investigated water flow over earth materials in a stream table. They observed the processes of erosion, deposition, and stream flow. These processes relate to the processes that created the Grand Canyon!Our 5th grade scientists use scientific thinking processes to conduct investigations and build explanations using: observing, communicating, comparing, organizing, and relating! Wow! that's alot of learning!

Carlitos using a overlay grid to draw the model of his map of the campus.

Amalea making a map from her overlay grid.

The class working on mapmaking using their overlay grids! 

Choosing colored pencils to emphasize objects on their maps. 

David : "what colors to use?"

Our models of the Bendix campus

More models

Amethyst observing the erosion process.

Here comes the water!

There goes the sand and clay!!