February 24th, 2021

As discussed in an earlier email from Molly, the school has decided to make a unique pair of St. John’s pajamas! The idea is that the children will collaboratively design a pair of pajamas that will be produced and sold to families by Brown Room parent, Lou Lou Baker. Today Rainey Room A began discussing and mapping out some of our initial ideas.

Elena: Now these would be pajamas you could wear at home or school for a pajama day,  but what do you think you would put on St. John’s pajamas?
Elle: I do not want to do it, Elena. I want to make a picture instead. 
Lochie: No, no I mean the building 
Jen: If you could imagine, close your eyes and imagine you had a pair of clean white pajamas and you could imagine anything that reminded you of St. Johns, what could it be?
Lochie: I would do a white pajamas and say St. John’s writing on them. 
CC: It spells St. John’s on the pjs
Elle: What about flowers!

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After our discussion, we used the morning to put some ideas on paper. Using colored pencils, markers and cardstock we drew our designs. 

Elle: I don’t know how to make pajamas, Brigitte.
Lochie: The pajamas could be long or short!
CC: I’m going to draw a star? But I don’t know how to make that.
Violet: I made a unicorn, Brigitte!
George: I’m making a ship, a sinking ship. 
Lochie: I made a flower. See the leaves and the stem?
Elle: It’s so small! I haven’t seen a flower that small! 
Elle: My favorite things at St. John’s are pictures and doing the family game. You don’t draw the family game.

CC: I made the S’s into turtles. Like sea turtles! This one (the O) is a sun. ​

Lochie: I made flowers for J.J. because she was at St. John’s. ​

Jack: Look at my picture, I want to draw a new one. This one has a rose and a thorn, but the thorn won’t hurt anyone.