Thursday, February 27, 2020

2/27/2020

Margaret Opens her Welcome Surprise

True to KW tradition, Margaret received her official welcome surprise gift! She opened the present Candice has made for her to use each day in KW. (Everyone was excited to see Margaret's gift as they have been anticipating this moment since Margaret joined us last week!) Margaret explained what she already knew about the place card, "It's for me to use at the table so I know where I sit (for lunch)." Margaret then had her first turn setting the table with Maren.

Creating Headbands

Headband creations from yesterday continued with Gigi, Lou Lou, and Leigh working on their rainbow headband designs. Grace M. continued sculpting wire butterflies for her headband and welcomed Sally in beginning her similar butterfly design.

The following slideshows give insight into each group's work:

Gigi	Lou Lou and Leigh

Grace and Sally

Watercolor Resist & Negative Space

Children painted geometric designs with a watercolor relief technique made using washi tape on paper. Children made decisions about colors, pattern, balance, and mark-making.

After painting a provided design, Austin, Grace D., Jack, and Margaret created their own using tapes...

...then painted their designs!

Sam and Grace returned to their paintings made yesterday to remove the tape. The negative space emerged! Grace left the negative space as part of her design while Sam chose to add marks in the space.

Constructing Around Clay Houses

Throughout our discussion of workshops, an idea had formed around combining many ideas into a construction village of sorts created in part by structures and possibly other objects made by children (an idea we may continue in future weeks/months). So today we began playing with the idea by constructing around Grace D. and Maren's clay houses.

Construction design elements included homes, pools, and a garden.