the kinder drew
‘the longest line in the world’
and that’s pretty long.
—
“every single line means something.”
-jean-michel basquiat
May25
Category Archives: children
May20
weave.
kinder weaving and learning
making patterns
strengthening
knotting
stretching
pulling
fine motor work
color blending
open-ended
each person giving something
one dancing ballet as others wove
collaborating to create something new
feeling the value and joy of public art.
—
“in the tapestry of life, we’re all connected.
each one of us is a gift to those around us helping each other be who we are,
weaving a perfect picture together.”
-anita mooriani
May18
invisible.
i can identify with this little one
when i was a child
i believed
when i had
my sunglasses on
no one could see me
now, i’m left wondering…
—
“vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
-jonathan swift
May13
hard wood.
the class discovered this tree with magical writing all over it
and even though he’s only mastered the alphabet this year
‘a’ chose to read it out loud to everyone
in his own magical language
a master translator at work.
—
“he was made of hard wood.”
-hungarian proverb
—
Arborglyphs, dendroglyphs, silvaglyphs or modified cultural trees
is the carving of shapes and symbols into the bark of living trees.
May11
bakers.
when you can’t get your dough to flatten
your hands are tired
you have to improvise
use all resources at hand
as one of our young bakers recently illustrated
by using a unique and innovative method
i had been previously unaware of.
—
the bread you bake by your own sweat tastes better than the dishes of sultans.
-Armenian mothers
May8
mothers.
much love to my three daughters, each one now a mother too, on mothers day.
even if i only rarely called you by your right name on the first try.
—
“mothers are not the nameless,
faceless stereotypes
who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose,
but women who have been dealt a hand for life
and play each card one at a time the best way they know how.
no mother is all good or all bad,
all laughing or all serious,
all loving or all angry,
ambivalence rushes through their veins.”
-erma bombeck
May7
everything.
i have never seen a better radioactive spider in my life.
—
“everything you can imagine is real”
-pablo picasso
Apr30
mud-soaked.
finding the mud was such a delight
starting out slow
checking how deep it was with a stick
walking, then running, then jumping, then splashing
only one ‘quicksand’ victim who we unstuck
boots dumped out after
filled with water dirt wood chips, rocks, sticks and unknown mushy things
ending with
a pair of mud-soaked socks
drying in the sun
and so much tired fun.
” mud is the most poetical thing in the world.”
-reginald horace blyth
Apr28
into the universe.
heading out on a rainy day
to explore, discover things, and learn
in the much larger classroom of the universe.
—
“the universe is a great university.”
-sai baba
Apr22
on earth day, and every day.
kinder in their natural habitat capturing the ever-elusive giant stick
—
“live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink,
taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the Earth.”
-henry david thoreau
I didn't have my glasses on.... 