From noon to 3:30 today, I got to play Art Teacher. Four different grades, four different lesson plans, piles of materials on tables, chairs full of excited minds and squirmy bodies. Kindergarteners made 3-D pictures (even tanks--oh how boys will be boys) out of biodegradable packing peanuts! First graders made puppets out of socks stuffed with paper, and second graders squashed tin foil into sculptures that somehow became alligators, puppies, soccer players and airplanes. I think I learned more than they did.
