Arts, Environment and the Child: Walking the Wheel of the Seasons

Project Log

Date Hours Activity Total Hours
10/1/05 15 minutes Harvest Festival - Luminaries table .25
10/3/05 12-3 Longhouse - mtg, touring, brainstorming identifying 3.00
10/03-09/05 4 hours randome researching: about plants at Longhouse, some in nature journal 4.00
10/9?/05 6-9 Painted word workshop..calligraphy...backwards poetry...havent I always been playing with the art of letters? switching project loyalties to Painted Word 3.00
10/12/05 9-10 brainstorming project duties and flyers 1.00
10/15/05 12:30-1:30 Pulled up ivy outside Longhouse garden - ripped up my hands...lesson: use gloves (duh)...went searching for gloves, used some comfrey from behind the longhouse, chewed it up and squeezed it onto my raw wounds...can't say if it helped much...it's pretty bad... 1.00
10/27/05 2:45-4:00 met with Susan Stillwell at Madison Elementary - discussed details of tree project, as well as general talking about different children, different learning styles and needs; met with both 1st grade teachers; saw little kindergartners coming back all excited from the pumpkin patch visit 1.25
10/28/05 4:30-7:30 Painted Word wkshp with Writing Center 3.00
10/31/05 6-8 researching Devil's Club andLicoriceFern 2.00
11/1/05 1-3:30 Madison Elementary: Evans 1st grade: observing drawing Nov. man; reading one-on-one; beginning co-ordinating times for tree planting 2.50
11/3/05 1-3:30 Madison Elementary: Whitcraft 1st grade: cataloguing books; beginning Nature Journal project, starting with 1st page: Their Names (mostly in glitter!) 2.50
11/4/05 2:30-4:00 Dreamweaver.... 1.50
11/5/05 11-1:00 Ptd. Word group meeting at B&B: getting posters; making future arrangements 2.00
11/5/05 1:30-4:30 Longhouse group: talked some about layout; pulled up bracken fern and horsetail 3.00
11/8/05 12:30-3:30 Madison: One on One reading; tree planting scheduling

2.00

11/10/05 2:00-3:30 Madison: Nature Journaling

1.50

11/11/05 2:30-4:00 Dreamweaver 1.50
11/11/05 4:30-7:30 Painted Word Workshop 3.00
11/15/05 1-3:00 Madison: Tree planting scheduling and letter writing 2.00
11/17/05 1-2:00 Madison: see above 1.00
11/18/05 3-4:30 Dreamweaver.... 1.50
       
       
       
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