To be or not to be... A Blank Canvas: FALLING into the Best Practice....Showing Gratitude....THE BIG THANK YOU!

In honor of our troops, we show our patriotic colors this month here on the canvas for The Rock. As fast as October arrived it is on it's way out. Here in the art room at The Rock we have been busy and seems we continue to be. As a follow up of our September Celebration of International Peace and our support of this event, we are filling buckets around the world by sending our love and appreciation through letter writing inside of homemade cards to soliders stationed around the world. Same as last year we are working to create a world of Peace and learning to get along in the world of diversity we live in. Learning to support and share and understand others, as we hope they will us. We are joining up with the Q100 Bert Show and helping them reach their goal that every solider that has been deployed from thier homeland should receive a heart felt hand written message. So, in art this week and next we are creating those cards. We are sicussing the importance of gratitude and sharing and showing it to those who help us in our lives and the lives of others. After this discussion we discuss card making and then off they go to create a cover for their message. Their classroom teachers will take those cards back to their classrooms and ask their students to then go through the letter writing process to fill the inside with messages that will hopefully brighten the day or a man or a woman who had dedicated themselves to preserving our freedoms. Below you will see that class in and class out there are piles of students working to make these cards with meaning. I will drive down to Atlanta next Friday to drop off these cards to be sure they get to where they need to be for our messages to be delivered! Thanks to The Bert Show for seeing the ned and leading us in a beautiful and meaningful way to fill that need.