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    How do we know when it’s Winter? A conversation bubbled up over the course of two meetings this week.  Our impending holiday season and the weather outside left us to wonder what it is

    Jumping off from our experience in the woods using velcro ties to attach in trees, we’ve begun exploring attaching in earnest in the Studio.     “You have to figure it out from when

Somehow in the extended time since we last came together, we slipped from crisp autumn days filled with freshly fallen leaves to winter storms filled with… “…white, wet, cold, and soft!” Last Tuesday while visiting the

As we head into our Thanksgiving Week and families begin to travel to be with extended family, we want to take a moment to be grateful for you!  We deeply appreciate your care of our new

From the very beginning of our school year together, we have been captivated by water.  We endlessly seek to find snatches of water left by the rain to fill our buckets and make concoctions of monster

            What can happen when you introduce scissors with paper? “I made a race car.” -Johann “I made a race car and a ramp!  I know!  I can cut my car

“A memory can’t make you laugh!”  -Tessa How do you remember? “I just think about where I went.”-Sam Very often in Studio Purple, we inform the children that drawing is a wonderful way to remember something. 

We are still curious about color… What ways do we discover how to create new colors?  After reading Mix It Up we discussed our new intention of creating different colors of paint.  We showed the children

“I like to fold sometimes like a tent.” -Kyla What began as an invitation to figure out how to create something without tape has evolved into discovering how folding paper can open many possibilities. While working