Tag Archives: children

hot flash mob.

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(not me, but a trio that has my same musical style)

nothing better

on a sweltering hot day

than having a front row seat

belting out fan karaoke.

“i think there’s something strangely musical about noise.”

-trent reznor, nine inch nails

 

 

 

 

 

image credit: google images

a wish for my students on their last day.

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“there is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything.

negative people find their walls.

so never apologize for your enthusiasm.

never.ever.ever.

-ryan adams

 

may you all live like this forever. and ever. and ever.

love, your teacher

(who lives like this too)

line.

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the kinder drew

‘the longest line in the world’

and that’s pretty long.

“every single line means something.”

-jean-michel basquiat

weave.

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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

invisible.

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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

clay.

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the kinder have been exploring the world of clay and water

seeing the more they have it in their hands

the warmer and softer it gets

the easier it is to create things

everything is possible.

one of them even took

this wonderful picture of his clay.

 

“i thought clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand.”

-janet fitch

hard wood.

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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.

bakers.

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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

mothers.

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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

 

everything.

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i have never seen a better radioactive spider in my life.

 

 

“everything you can imagine is real”

-pablo picasso