Only a few weeks of school left! I am sad, because the students are working so well together now. All the stations are open, routines are understood and followed, and new ideas are filling the room. It's inspiring just to be there and to feel the energy and enthusiasm.

I am going to do a short summer program; two weeks, for two hours a day, in my home! It will be pure choice, with little restrictions, as I won't be worried about satisfying the core requirements. I am excited to see how students of different ages interact . . . I hope that I will see lots of things like this: "I'm just seeing different ways to put paint on the paper"

Here's the third sculpture in this first grader's series of fighting monsters.