“I just feel that I’m in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I’m in the process of working.” ~Louise Nevelson April 25, 2024 Dear Families and Friends, Nests continued to inspire today, and both Mrs. Watson’s nests and Susan Beebe’s nests got kids’ attention. They wondered how the fledglings could fit in… Read More In the Process of Making Art

“The bird loves her nest.” ~ George Herbert April 24, 2024 Dear Families and Friends, Spring is in the air, and pre-kindergartners at St. George School are feeling it. This morning when we arrived they were exploring out of doors. When we gathered together to start our class it was evident that they had been… Read More Learning Takes Flight

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”  ~ Mia Couto, Mozambican writer April 10, 2024 Dear Families and Friends, In a moment of amazement, kids lifted their print from the collagraph plate to see the image they’d envisioned. Two animals appeared, revealing… Read More Stories Two Ways

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way–things I had no words for.”~ Georgia O’Keeffe April 7, 2024 Dear Friends of Leaps of Imagination, Children’s art will make you smile. The complexity of it. The simplicity of it. The tone it sets. The messages it sends.… Read More Leaps’ Art at Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Visitor Center

“Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ~ Anatole France April 3, 2024 Dear Families and Friends, Third graders sprang into action in South School’s art room on Tuesday. Positioned next to their partner, spread out on the floor, and at tables, they were filled with ideas. The materials… Read More For the Love of Animals

“Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.” ~ John Muir March 30, 2024 Dear Families and Friends, Making connections between one idea and another, one day’s Leaps’ learnings and another, and children and nature are central to Leaps of… Read More Imagining Animal Tales through Art

“You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” ~ Samuel Ullman, American poet March 26, 2024 Dear Families and Friends, Full of ideas, children from Miss Day’s and Miss Sears’ third grades, know all about imagination. “Imagination is thinking about something… Read More Filled with Confidence

“Art is imbedded in nature and they who can extract it have it. “ ~ Albrecht Durer March 22, 2024 Dear Families and Friends, On their first day of Leaps of Imagination, third graders at South School were serious about making art. They were inspired by the complexity of feathers and pinecones. The texture of… Read More Third Grade Naturals

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” ~ Margaret Atwood March 21, 2024 Dear Families and Friends, Explorers, all, pre-kindergartners were thrilled to head for the swamp after hearing the story, Come Out Muskrats, Susan read them. They’d spent time in the woods adjacent to school, but never… Read More Pre-Kindergartners: Discovering Local Swamp Creatures

“What is art but a way of seeing?” ~ Saul Bellow March 15, 2024 Dear Families and Friends, On their culminating day of art making with Leaps, South School’s fourth and fifth graders reflected on their connections with nature, and put themselves (figuratively) right in the middle of it. Kids focused on getting their features… Read More Ways of Seeing and Being