After a week of completing reading assessments, the kids had an opportunity to display out their creative juices in class today. I gave them each a drawing of a dove to watercolor paint while instrumental music played in the background. It was positively dreamy.
Other than it being dreamy, there was a purpose behind the project. Next week we will be learning about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and so I will be asking the kids to think about their dream for our country. The dream will be written on their doves and hung in our hallway. The parents will also be receiving a dove on which they will be asked to write their dream for our country, and those will be hung with the children's in the hallway. In addition to painting the dove, the children also painted a label which we will be putting on empty cans and distributing around town for our annual Pennies for Patients project. We've participated in this program for as long as I can remember. In a nutshell, the cans are distributed to local (and willing) businesses and it is our hope that people will see them and toss some coins (or paper money!!) in. Then in library class, the students will learn the in's and out's of a coin counting machine and then use it to update the school about how much money has been collected. Once the program is done (it runs through February...pennies...Abraham Lincoln...his birthday is in February...you get me, right?) the funds are sent to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. It's a great program and a fun way to teach the kids that there are people out there whom we are able to support and help, despite having never met them. Sounds like the perfect way to end a long week to me!!!
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