February 16

Snack and Story:

"...Banjo did not only have a sausage on his plate. That would be silly, wouldn't it? Just a sausage, one measly little sausage...." -Ahlberg and Ingman

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"Have you ever had just one sausage for dinner?" -Melanie
"What if it was one strawberry?" -Sylvie
"Strawberries aren't healthy." -Audrey
"Strawberries aren't healthy?" -Melanie
"Not for dinner. Strawberries aren't healthy for dinner." -Audrey
"So What are we going to eat for dinner?" -Melanie
​"Broccoli." -Sylvie
"Asparagus." -Lucia
"Noodles." -Audrey
"Cartrots."--Jane
"Just carrots." -Janie

"Broccoli, asparagus, noodles, and carrots, this could make a good pasta for our dinner. Would there be a sauce?" -Melanie
"Nooo!...Chocolate sauce?!" -Jane
"That's crazy!" Sylvie
"Spaghetti sauce?" -Lucia
"What if I had zero for dinner. (laughs) It would be no food." -Sylvie
"What if you had a painting?" -Jane
"What if I had an empty cradle for dinner?" -Sylvie
"You can't have that for dinner. You can't eat a cradle for dinner.  (smiles)." -Audrey
"What if we ate the grass? ... What if we ate the whole world?!"-Sylvie
"You can't do that. Lots would  be gone. Nothing would be there.
"What if we just had one carrot for dinner?" -Janie                         

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Portraits After Pajamas: 

"I think my portrait is pretty silly." -Sylvie

The children love wearing their pajamas to school and what's not to love about wearing pajamas to school on Valentine's Day -- it's like icing on the cake!
Picking up from pajama day, our intention today was for us to  build upon the work, extend the children's interest, and keep school joyful by we mixing things up a bit.

"What happened?" the children asked when they saw our green morning meeting rug  (known as "the grass) newly placed on the studio floor.
Why: The open space of the studio allows for bigger movements that drawing our bodies necessitates.

We slowed down starting with cooperative and tactical efforts such as rolling out the butcher paper, cutting the tape and using it to keep the paper in place,  and determining an order for turn taking. The children were quick to invest. What started off with a single aim to trace our bodies' shapes, in support of later  illustrating our pajamas, ended up with five wonderful drawings showing progressively more detail with each time we traced the outline of a friend .

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Four limbs. Four friends. Each person took an initial turn at tracing around the shape of Audrey, one limb at a time. But what about the head? After the head was traced, it was decided that Audrey needed  hair. 

"I'm drawing her hair. My hair is blonde."-Janie

"It looks like a cockatoo!" -Lucia

"She needs eyes." -Jane