The Sea Lions Are Ambassadors Of Knowledge And Kindness!
/The Sea Lions had plenty of opportunities to flex their leadership skills this week. On Thursday, our students gave a tour of Blue River City to the President, Vice Presidents and Provost of Pacific University, along with the Director of the Higher Education Coordinating Committee and the President of the Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges and Universities - wow! The Sea Lions exuded confidence as they shared details about the creation of our city and conveyed the big concepts of government and civics underlying it.
Later that same day, we walked over to the UCC church and helped make a few dozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for their Blessing Box. The Blessing Box is a community-supported project that helps feed members of our community experiencing homelessness. It felt good to be giving our time to help our community, and it gave us a chance to reflect on the gratitude we feel for our own warm homes and supportive families.
On Friday, we celebrated Stone Soup! The Sea Lions showed true leadership and a sense of calm as they helped the preschool classrooms prepare for the event. They supervised chopping of vegetables for the soup and spent time reading to the youngest students in our school. For many Sea Lions, it was a chance to go back to their roots at the ELC. After helping prepare the soup, all classes at the ELC gathered in Creative Play for our Friday Summit, where our Sea Lions led both the Summit Meditation and Land Acknowledgement. Following tradition, Mr. Mark read us Stone Soup and we sang our way into the atelier to eat a hearty meal of soup, bread, cheese and fruit together. It was a beautiful gathering!
The Sea Lions also completed a gorgeous art project. We studied form, light and shadow by creating a still life painting using three different media. We used oil pastels, watercolor and tempera paint and practiced many different brush techniques. The finished art is rich and infused with a depth that is truly breathtaking!
