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Monday, April 8, 2013

Blossoming

All the signs of Spring are here, and they have not gone amiss by the Owls! To celebrate the season, Sam created a special project for us today in the art room. Using real sticks as references, friends painted their own renditions of branches. Then, we used various shades of pink tissue paper and crumpled them up. When we applied glue to our tissue paper and added them to our branches, they created cherry blossoms that are blooming! 
Sam's on-screen reference
"This looks like it's blooming!"
Flower pattern
One of the finished products
Today we also started making our canvas for the art show. With most of blue items collected from home, we started hot gluing them as the base for the piece. If you haven't sent in something blue yet, don't worry! There's still time! We will be working on this over the course of the next few days.
Since it was a glorious day outside, the Owls spent much of the day outside. We enjoyed playing on the big playground, on the hill out by the farmhouse, and in the secret garden (if some of these spots sound unfamiliar, ask your Owl to show you where these great parts of campus are)! We picked flowers, played chasing games, tried out the farmhouse steps, crawled through the secret window, and more.

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