On Friday afternoons Jane and I work together, offering the 15 students in her Group the choice of cooking an afternoon treat or working on an art project. This week we focused on cookies...as some students mixed Snickerdoodle batter others sewed felt cookies topped with glued felt chips or sewn colored beads. This activity, designed as a warm-up for a more extensive sewing project was initially really hard for some of Our younger students. Threading needles, tying knots, sewing in and out with little stitches and no tangles is a lot to think about! Oh what a good job they did...I celebrate their focus, perseverance, their willingness to try even though it was hard and their collective joy as hard became easy...Oh what the difference an hour can make!
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