Shoe print charms

Kindergarteners had fun making textures in little balls of clay, using just the soles of their shoes! We had fun stringing beads and creating patterns after the charms were fired.

Anyone else flooded with Spam?

Recently I have been getting many spam comments from weird businesses. Is this happening to anyone else? I am wondering if there is anything I can do to minimize this unpleasantness - I already use comment moderation so at least I can stop the spam from being posted but it's so disappointing to see a comment notification and have it be phony!

First grade street scenes

First graders continued our theme of cityscapes by adding a printed, collaged street scene to our portfolios. We used bubble wrap for the background and we rolled toy vehicles through tempera and on to our paper to create the streets. We tried something a bit different this year with the vehicles - instead of collaging one large vehicle, we drew a number of different ones and created a little "traffic."

We also had a special visitor during one of our printing days, a Dolvin Dads volunteer! His little boy was very proud to have him there and it was great having an extra set of adult hands during this activity.