This week, we started a fresh lesson in Girl Talk about values. The group talked about what values are, why they are important and how they can influence you and your life. Then, everyone created images to represent their most important value...and these were made into Shrinky Dinks! Everyone always loves the shrinky dinks project. The final images are made into jewelry afterwards so that each person can "wear" their value!
After snack, everyone gathered downstairs in front of the VisArts gallery - the whole SOHO group got to do something special tonight...a tour of the gallery show! The tour was given by VisArts' gallery director Caroline Wright. She led the group through the "TABLE" exhibition. The show features multiple artists who created their pieces around the concept of a "table" and what that means...from the materials associated with tables to the memories had while gathered around tables at family dinners.
We were all impressed with the amount of questions the girls asked about the artwork and the great discussions big and little sisters had with Caroline.
After the tour, the group met up in the studio to make plans for the wooden lap desks they would create in the next SOHO session after Christmas break! Then at the end of the night, as a special treat, all of the big sisters brought pictures of themselves in middle school! These were put up on the wall and we made a game of it. Little sisters attempted to guess which was their big sisters. Of course - it was pretty funny watching their reactions to the photos and to see them try to figure out who was who.
We'll be back after the holidays break - happy holidays to everyone!
