Kindergarten

--> Kindergarten: Science and Art—Cairns, and Suminagashi – Kindergarteners learned about the natural artwork created by artists Andy Goldsworthy and Thea Alvin. These artists use stones to build inspiring sculptures and arches. On their fall walk, Kindergarten collected flat, large rocks to build their own stack of stones, also known as a cairn.  After Kindergarten added bright colors to their rocks using acrylic paint they created cairns in the Cole Ballay Memorial Garden along the Green Ribbon Trail. We began our next project and learned about the Japanese art of suminagashi or “floating ink.” We made marbleized paper for the start of our next printmaking projec