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Thursday, June 2, 2022

6/2/2022

A New Experience for our Last Day!

Based on the children's enthusiasm for paper sculpture, we tried our hand at quilling today. Quilling involves tightly rolling narrow strips of paper and forming designs with them. Check to our early attempts!

Marley

Giacomo

Nora

Is ice a material? You be the judge!

Farewell to Jordan!

We couldn't let Jordan go without giving him some sort of remembrance of our year. What could be better than his own guardian? A Harry Potter-inspired guardian at that! Children from both the Rainey and Tucker KW groups worked on it. They thought the guardian would help protect Tristan and Jordan's dog, Freya!

This and that....

We had fun outside, before the rain!
Many children chose to work on collage today.
Some children completed one final message.
We built with our tiny lights, which looked great on this gloomy afternoon!
We didn't do puzzles today, but finished strong with one last game of High Card!

Enjoy these images! Once again, thanks for a fantastic year!

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June 01st, 2022

6/1/2022

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So Long Rainey Room, We'll See You Again Real Soon!

Rainey Rooms gets a sneak peak at the end of the year video

After an amazing year, it is time to say "see ya later" to Rainey Room. KW was lucky enough to have so many Rainey Room friends join us this year and while we are sad to see you leave, we are happy to got to enjoy the time we had this year.

The Final Guardian!

Lucas and Bea admire the finished product.

They say "good things come to those who wait." That is certainly true for our final guardians, the clay guardian. It took a lot of work in KW but the clay guardian is finally ready for its debut. At first, the children were speechless when they initially saw their idea come to life.

The Guardian was so effective, Remy became "scared" and hid behind a chair.

Remy: "It's so scary! Hahahaha"

Lucas: "Wow"
Bea: "It will definitely scare people!"
Lily:" Did we really make this?"
Remy: "It's so scary!"

Rainey's Final Experiences

We finished our penultimate day of Rainey Room KW with personalized collages. Some of us choose to think about what we like while others chose a sillier image to work off of. The children thought about layering, materials and storytelling as they worked on their collages.

Bea: "Oh humming bird (looking at Cate's world)
Cate: "Yup"
Bea: "I have one too"
Cate: "I cut out hands for mine. Oh! I need an owl bonnet"

Watercolors

Wilder - I want it to be a sunset. (Later, 2nd painting he first divides his paper into 4 quadrants) I’m doing a different thing I each square.

Finlay - It looks like today I’m using some ancient colors (the metallic watercolors). I just found the perfect color! Pink and golden makes red! I’m a genius!
Capers - I’m trying to make a paw patrol painting.
Bea - (Starting her painting with green). This is a green waterfall.

The Biggest KW Ever!

That was, without a doubt, one of the biggest KW days that St. Johns has ever seen. And what an amazing day it was. Rainey Room and Tucker finally got to spend an afternoon together before families showed up for the end of the year slide show. A special thank you to all the parents and care givers who took time out of their busy schedules to be here today! We appreciate you! In case you missed it or want to see it again, the slide show will be posted later this week.

On our giant day, the children enjoyed the light table, reading, games outside, Jenga and building with legos!

THANK YOU TO ALL THE CARE GIVERS AND PARENTS THAT CAME TODAY! YOU ROCK!