Artistic Genius

Well, Cole may not exactly be the world's greatest artist, but when we walked into the preschool building for their annual art show this evening, it was like walking into a real art gallery with colorful paintings everywhere on display.

The "spin art" display. Cole points out his own.

Heather was particularly taken with this light table with painted glass tiles.

This one is Cole's.

They made bird house feeders.

Cole was worried that no one would like his because he was absent on the day he was supposed to paint it, but then he was delighted to see that the teachers had placed a real bird's nest inside it.

There was a video of a skit they had done in class projected onto the wall.

Some peek-a-boo pictures.

Can you guess who this is?

Yes, it's Cole. I'm telling you, he's going to be an actor.

SF stands for super friend. Whenever a teacher catches a student doing something nice for someone (being a Super Friend) the student gets to wear the cape. Each child had made his or her own SF emblem.

Painted frames and painted faces. Cole did not want to have his face painted that day.

But he sure is distinguished looking.

This is Mat Man. He was on display with a little song that the kids sing about him. He's the preschool and kindergarten edition of Handwriting Without Tears. The students practice drawing him in class. He's made of big lines, little lines, big curves, and little curves, and those are the same strokes they learn to make when writing upper case and lower case letters.

This is a book that Cole's teacher, Miss Denise had made. Each page shows a picture of a student and tells something that child is great at doing.

Yes, he sure is.