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Face Drawing With Trisha and Dress Making With Michelle
Today we had our first art class with Trisha. We split the group into two and she taught each group, one after the other, about face drawing and the spacial relations of our face – where our eyes are...
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Sewing the Autumn Days Away
Brigit, who just itches to sew every minute of open classroom, works on her wrap skirt: Alex works on his long shirt, which he decided kind of looked like armor: Flynn works on her glamorous purse...
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Choices
We go to Daystar every other Thursday to visit with the seniors and then to hang out at Castle Park. Every other Thursday we have previously (last year and two trips this year) gone on other types of...
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Karate Batty Cat by Asher Sage
The inspiration. Amy, Zavier’s mom borrowed our book one weekend and made Zavier a Batty Cat, which was a huge hit in our classroom during sharing time. Asher picked this material because he has a...
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Paul’s First Sewing Adventure – A Hat
Today I gave Paul some sewing machine lessons, so that he can help the kids sew. Sometimes I feel like I’m chained to the sewing machine during open classroom. I LOVE it but I want to play Lego’s too!
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Sewing Families
Last year we sewed by hand. This year I introduced sewing on the machine. It is the favorite activity in the classroom. Last week Asher made a Batty Cat, which led his sister, Vega, to make her own...
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Do You Want to Sew?
We’re always sewing in the classroom. If you would like to learn how to sew too, go check out LuckyStitches. It starts this very weekend with Meet Your Machine! Zanne is one of our lovely CSWS parents...
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Sewing Projects
Every Wednesday (when they aren’t in Columbia for two months – hey you guys, we miss you so much!) Anne Marie, Isabel’s mom, and our resident seamstress, and sometimes baby Andres come in to sew with...
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Sewing with Anne Marie
We’ve been sewing in this classroom since the very beginning. I use to do all of the design work and stitching with the kids and then we discovered Anne Marie and her wonderful design techniques and...
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