Pinwheels for Peace & Unity Day Fun!

Unfortunately the weather offset our Pinwheels for Peace celebration to Thursday.  Thank you to everyone that helped out with making such a positive, visual statement of peace!

Then on Friday we celebrated Unity Day thanks to Miss Hoffman!  What a great day of working together on tasks!

Team Gocken Goofy Goobers!

Pinwheels for Peace coming September 21st!

Students have been hard at work creating Pinwheels for Peace this past week!  We will "plant" them on September 21 on the front lawn of the elementary school as a symbolic installation of peace.  At the end of the day, students will pick a pinwheel to take home as a momento! 

Peace Day & Unity Day Fun!

We started out the week by celebrating the International Day of Peace by planting pinwheels for "whirled" peace on the front lawn of the school!

Today we had "the best day ever" by celebrating Unity Day!  A huge shout out to Miss Hoffman for making Unity Day an amazing success!

Busy! Busy!

This school year is off to a great start!  Children have been working on making their portfolios to store artwork in and pinwheels for the International Day of Peace on September 21st!  

He is very proud of his coloring job!  If you notice in the background there are two new things!  I was able to obtain a booth from a wonderful family in Westlake this summer aka "The Creation Station" and a new wooden portfolio rack.  The portfolio rack will make student portfolios readily available to the children when they want to add to them. I was able to make this purchase with funds from our Artsonia account!  When parents purchase items from Artsonia, a percentage of the money goes into an account to help supplement supplies.  Thank you, parents!

Also our third kindness wreath is hanging on the door waiting for ribbons!  When the children are caught doing an act of kindness for each other in the studio, they might be invited to add a ribbon to the wreath.

The wreath from last year now resides in the library and the one before that is in Mrs. Brockway's office.  I am looking forward to a fabulous school year!

Happy Peace Day!

For the third year, Pecatonica Elementary students participated in the International Peace Day!  During art last week, students created pinwheels and listened to The Peace Book by Todd Parr.

Here are all the pinwheels in the display case waiting to be "planted!"

This morning, all of the students planted their pinwheels in front of the school for "whirled" peace!

I even took a little video of the peaceful pinwheels spinning in the wind....

Ask your child what peace means to them tonight!  Their answer might surprise you!

Pinwheels for Peace and Cool FREE stuff!

The children have been hard at work on their couple of "have to" projects for me this week!  After watching the video of Todd Parr reading his book, The Peace Book, we decorated pinwheels.  On Friday, September 20th, we will plant our pinwheels in front of the school to celebrate the International Peace Day on the 21st!  The past two years, we have been featured on the 5 and 6 o'clock WREX 13 news!

Mr. Dale delivered us a box today that contained a bunch of FREE art supplies from Sargant Art Supplier!  We love free stuff!