Students have been working with a jewelry artist, high school teacher Mrs. Joyce Thompson, to learn the art of creating wire jewelry. Their first project was creating a heart pendant by bending, twisting, and hammering copper wire, then adding various glass beads as accents. Some made necklaces with their pendants, others used them to make one of a kind key chains. Their most recent lesson was in making wire rings; there were some great looking rings on the hands of many! In order to make the rings, students had to learn what a sizer was and how to use it to make the rings fit and to create the design they wanted.
"Jewelry is cool because you get to make your own jewelry in your own way, you know what I mean? It is like art because you get to express yourself in it." - Junior Jaime Regalado
Update from New Era:
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| Professional photographers in the making! |
New Era Aspire students are taking up cameras and fotodocumenting the New Era Aspire experience. We are going to make a Power Point with captions by students!!! Cameraman David T said, "I had fun on my turn taking pictures of my friends!"
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| It's craft time! |
Thursdays at New Era are club day. After homework time the guys spend an hour as Boy Scouts and are making derby cars. The girls work with Sarah Jo R and high school volunteers learning new craft skills. Hannah T says about Girls Craft Time, "Awesome!! I want MORE!!!!
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