Kathy Hersh's blog
Our New Garden Bench
As part of our Quaker Earthcare Witness project, the First Day School helped design a garden bench depicting a butterfly garden. Every child contributed an element of the overall design by Patsy Rodriguez, a ceramics artist who donated her labor. If you look closely at the design you will see a charming cat peeking out from behind some foliage, a daisy, a Zebra butterfly, clouds shaped like rabbits, a dove with an olive branch, and a large bird, not to mention a butterfly proclaiming "I used to be a caterpillar." These were all ideas of our First Day Schoolers.
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First Day School Has A New Home
| First Day School has its own space! We have moved into two rooms called "the sunporch" of Bartram House, a century old building with historic designation which Miami Friends Meeting owns adjacent to the Meetinghouse. We all love the bright yellow walls and colorful floor made with pieces of old tiles. We all worked hard to clean and organize our new space. We are hoping to find inexpensive bean bag chairs and a rug for sitting on. |
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Dr. King
We learned about the meaning of the words Martin Luther King used during the civil rights campaign to inspire people -- nonviolence, equality, freedom, justice and love. Then we wrote them in chalk on the front walk of the meetinghouse for all the world to see.
