Pre-K was introduced to a new tool this week.

It was a bamboo pen. I showed them a

large piece of bamboo(4 feet long) and had them guess

what it was. They were all surprised when I told them

that it was a grass. Someone new that though. Such

intelligent children.

We looked at a book about an artist named Hunderwasser.

He was an architect as well as an artist. His paintings

were full of color and line. We then talked about the shapes

in their homes and set out to draw a representational drawing of

their home. This was a bit tricky as they had to dip their pen

into black ink over and over. I told them that this is how people

wrote and drew in the "old days." They are beautiful and sophisticated

renderings of what they think of their home.