"This is for my Mom" I hear this quite often.
Even though Mom is not in the classroom, she is
always remembered.

The Young twos worked on a suncatcher. Moving

around the room ,they worked at the newly placed

tabletop easel. This is yet another creative place that

gets them to stand using their creative self and muscles.

Layers of color tissue paper and water on board were

exciting the younger artists this week. They saw how colors changed

when they overlapped and the water left a stain on the

board if they lifted the paper up. I encourage the

artists to stand up while they work. This increases the strength of

their core as well as bulding the ever important arm muscles

for future writing skills.

These are more drawings from the Pre-K.

Every age group likes to paint at the easel. It offers a space

to paint without interruption from others. A space to create

a world of one's own if only for a few minutes.

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.