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Trisha came in with this great idea to make public art. She has a friend who put an art piece up on a pole on her block so that she could see it out her window. The piece quickly disappeared but she found out that some girls in the neighborhood had taken it and put it up in their bedroom. The girls then decided to also make some art and put it up around the neighborhood. Isn’t it amazing how fast something, anything can spread. So in the spirit of spreading art, joy and love, we jumped on board and became guerilla artists.
Everyone made something. Even the teachers.
Then we were off to share our work in the most public of forums – the street.
White Center – Enjoy!
We’ll be doing this once-a-month, in random places, so keep a look-out for our public art installations.
This morning Sophia (one of our two 2nd graders) came in a little late with her entire face stuffed inside the pages of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. From inside the classroom, I watched her shake out of her coat, put her lunch box away all while reading. She finally put her book mark in and stashed her book in her cubby. She didn’t say anything when she came in to start working at the stations but I just couldn’t bear to see her leaving her book, so I quietly walked up to her and offered her the opportunity to continue reading in the big reading chair instead of joining us. She eagerly agreed, ran off to get her book and crawled into the chair to read.
Anya (the other second grader) never misses a beat and she came up and asked if she could get her book out of her cubby that she had brought. Me, who never misses an opportunity to encourage the love of reading, said YES (doesn’t saying yes make all the difference really?) And off she trotted, pulling Little House in the Big Woods out of her cubby. This is the first time I’ve even seen Anya bring a book to school. Serendipity I say!
They read and read in all seriousness in all their bigger kid-ness. So sweet and motivating for everyone.
Even though sometimes challenging, multi-age classrooms are amazing to watch in action.
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