250 finger knitted, hand cut, hand sewn Harvest Festival Star Crowns.  250 opportunities to bring increased finger sensitivity and fine motor skills to our students.

​Did you see the lovely capes trailing behind our kindergarten class at the Harvest Festival?  These were a joint project of our 7th and Kindergarten students.  In Handwork, the 7th graders sewed the casings on the capes.  The Kindergarteners finger-knitted the goldenrod wool ties.  Together the classes dipped the capes in marigold dye made from marigolds grown in Gardening class (the same marigolds that are strung and dried in Spanish for Dia de los Muertos).  Mrs. Salyer told a beautiful fall story woven together with a song and a verse recited by the 7th graders at a moving ceremony during main lesson last week. 

​It would have melted your heart to see this dear connection between our students and the coordination between subjects and classes that it takes to bring a project like this to life.