Mel's week

I love my time at the school, but it always goes by so fast. As a mom, it was really cool to see the changes the kids have made in just a few months since the last time I was the parent volunteer. I feel very fortunate to be able to spend this time with the kids and be a part of their day.

I started out with the Appoloosa kids learning how to make seed bombs.

Its started to rain so we went inside and started beading a garden sun catcher.


The Palomino group finished the sun catchers quickly so the kids wanted to make stuff out of construction paper. Alaira and Damon were into making shields and swords, which several of the kids joined in and we also made construction paper belts to hold the swords, I also improvised and we made helmets out of paper plates to go with the armor.





Damon and his big guns with his trusty side kick Eddie.

The Mod Squad

Sophias creation with construction paper.


It was still raining so we gathered together and started reading about the Arctic.

The kids then made snowflakes.




Still raining so we finished the day with games and puzzles.



Day 2
We finished the garden sun catchers and then a continuation of Clair's still life drawings. This week I had them use black paper with the oil crayons for a different effect.








Joint drawing by Liam and Eddie of a giant dinosaur.

A peek in the classroom.

More Arctic stories and learning a song from one of the books.

The pirate flags the kids made with Clair.


Yoga with Miss Ruxi




Day 3
We made masks to go with our Arctic play.


Lunchtime - with the masks on of course.

More seed bombs.


Nature hike.

Found a chicken coop, Sophia declared they had flown the coop.

Drawing Classes!

This week, some of the children began taking art classes with a wonderful art teacher, Megan, who works at the Art School of Austin. We are so very happy to have her working with the kiddos! Her focus this six week session is going to be on drawing. After introductions, she brought in some items for the children to look at and draw. There was a pumpkin, a pencil, a candle, a bowl of fruit, and I believe some type of coffee mug. She had the children start off by drawing what they saw so she could get an idea of where they each were and how they represented what they saw. Here are some examples:







And after helping the children really look at the items to see details and depth, here are examples of what they drew afterwards. Note the huge difference in the 3 dimensional work. These kids are only 4 and 5!















This was a mug drawn for mom because "it's her favorite coffee mug." And she drew it amazingly from memory!



I'm beyond excited about this series of classes being offered at our schoolhouse and look forward to next week!