The students dropped ink onto water then swirled it before placing sheets of paper on top to absorb the ink, creating marbled paper, a Japanese process called suminagashi. During sign language Rose pointed to alphabet signs to spell out names, … Continue reading →

Fish art was on the menu for Monday. The children drew their own fish then colored and painted them before cutting out a double set, stapling them together, stuffing them with crumpled paper to make it puffy, then hanging them … Continue reading →

Henri Matisse is known both for the paintings he made in his early years and the cut out paper art later in life, particularly the well known piece “Le Garbe.” We read The Iridescence of Birds and Henri’s Scissors, about … Continue reading →

Monday students took a field trip upstairs to check out the stained glass windows in the chapel. They looked at the beautiful pictures and chose their favorites, noticing the black metal connecting the colored glass pieces. The students used colored … Continue reading →