Your Space, My Space

NOTICE: PICTURE DAY POSTPONED TO MARCH 13

(due to weather)

Nadia and Sebastian composing with our new colors on our CLEAN easel.

TODAY'S ACTIVITY
Today the groups switched the same activities as yesterday, with the Squirrels doing the color mixing and the Raccoons doing movement and athletics outside.

This morning, students chipped in to help maintain their work space. This is such an important goal. They helped clean the easel, trays, brushes and paint pots. The painters were even keen on wiping down the easel after removing their paintings to dry. The finishing touch was refilling the paint pots and putting their color-mixing skills to good use, especially when formulating green.

Mollie: "You have to put in yellow and then a little blue to get green."
Nadia: "Yeah, if you put in blue first, it still makes blue, not green."

Smart painters.

TODAY'S STORY
Fancy Nancy, by Jane O'Connor and Robin Priess Glasser. Nancy believes that more is ALWAYS better when it comes to being fancy. From the top of her tiara down to her sparkly studded shoes, Nancy is determined to teach her family a thing or two about being fancy. How Nancy transforms her parents and little sister for one enchanted evening makes for a story that is funny and warm -- with or without the frills. The highest praise came from our little he-men who declared the book too girly at the start, recanting their judgement when they saw how "Cool" the dad looked with his sunglasses and kid-sized top hat. Look out, Project Runway!