“The exhibit represents work by every student at the school from kindergarten through eighth grade. Most of the children have two pieces here. A few of them have up to four pieces I try to tie into the academic curriculum at Green Woods as much as I can. There’s a big environmental science curriculum. That’s the focus of our school. So, for first grade for instance, they studied the pond all year so a lot of work we do involves the pond, insects you might find around the pond, frogs… Siobhan is our eighth grader and her work is on the mailer and she did a primate. They were studying endangered species…..Right now I have seventh graders who have been studying protozoa. They had to design their own protozoa for science but then they bring their designs into art and we turn them into 3-dimensional sculptures…Sixth graders are studying ancient Egypt and they designed canopic jars. They are mostly animal heads. They were used in ancient Egypt to hold the organs before mummification took place.” Barbara Mail, Green Woods Charter School Art Teacher at the Woodmere Art Museum reception for student exhibit, “Stewards of the Earth.” Watch video here.
Yet another vote for dinner at Dad's. The trade-off benefit for you could not only be more "quality" time at the end of the day, but have breakfast with them, which will be easier to pull off if they are not dragged out of bed in the morning. So if they go to bed earlier, they wake earlier. My husband often misses dinner during the week, but he eats breakfast with the kids 95% of the time and it's a great experience for the family.
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