Wire, Painting, and a Celebration

2/10/2023

Wire Comes to Morning Meeting

Wire was briefly introduced in the fall, and it's back with more intention to explore further. We brought some wire to morning meeting with the intention to show and share it. However, every now and again the material influences the engagement level and morning meeting becomes a fluid beginning into the full experience. This was one of those times!

"It's like paper. ... And then you bend it like this and then through...
and then you make a sculpture wire!" -Eliza

"Look what I made!" -Georgia
"It's a candy cane... a shark tail." -Gracie "A raindrop." -Win

Gracie draws (on) her wire piece.

"This is really hard to do." -Gracie

Gracie draws on a paper to represent her wire piece(s).

Will attempts to transform his wire into a heart shape.

Thinking About St. John's Birthday Face

Birthdays are enthusiastically embraced by the children, and St. John's birthday has been no exception. In thinking about the upcoming birthday celebration for St. John's, we continue to invest thought and effort into self-portraits. Here, we projected an image of St. Johns onto the easel with the intention to give St. Johns a face. Offering children new approaches also presents new ways of seeing and doing. The provocation can also be a part of the process!