The end of Spring Break is a walk in the park.

Spring Break went by so quickly.  It was here and now it is gone.  It is finally spring here in Edmonton and today we went for our first walk in the park this year. I am fair weather walker and today the weather was fair.   Last year we were regularly walking a four mile loop until winter and we haven’t walked since the fall. Those 4 miles are longer and the hills are much steeper than they were last year. I am not sure how that is??

The park in our neighbourhood has a small lake and is home to a number of Canadian geese. The birds might have been a little over optimistic in their recent home coming. The pond is still frozen over. It was comical to see the geese standing on the ice, walking around on the ice all the time loudly honking as if to say.....hey....where's the lake.....where's the lake.... last time we were here there was a lake???? There were a number of confused, unhappy and very noisy geese.

We did one workshop during Spring Break. It was great.  We did a mask workshop with Grade 7 – 9. It was a speed workshop.  We need the full 90 minutes for mask making, but it was the last day before their Spring Break and the kids had their own rhythms and time frames.  By the time they had wondered into the class we were almost 30 minutes late starting.  

With some pushing a a bit of help, they did well and they finished. Some of them had not worked with clay before. I have to ask, how does a student get to grade 9 and not work with clay?? They had a blast. One girl chose to miss her bus and have her parents pick her up so she could complete her mask.

Tomorrow is Caterpillars with Kinders. Nothing says spring like a caterpillar. Well that and a walk in the park.

Cindy Clarke
The Clay Teacher

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