I had some WONDERFUL news about Rueben today. This will be a long story so bear with me. Rueben qualified for a "learning through art" special ed class. He excels in Art and the school thought they would try to teach him other things ie: phonics, math, speech. He was in a small group setting and there were two tables. On one table there were a ton of art supplies. On the other table were cleaned recyclables. The children were told to play and create something. The teachers went around and had the kids identify things and count things so there was a loose lesson plan in place. Rueben designed and created his own project from start to finish. He created a firefly. He used a 2ltr bottle of pop as a body. He cut out bands of green tissue paper (hard for even adults to cut straight without ripping!!) and orange construction paper and wrapped it around the bottle. He also created 2 sets of wings. They have two sets similar to a lady bug. The outer "crusty" wings as Rueben calls them were made of the orange construction paper and the inner "cleary kinda" wings were made of green tissue paper. Then he put a glow stick down inside because fireflies have "glowy butts". He kept the lid to the bottle, screwed it on and made a circular face of construction paper. He added to that 2 pom pom things and those little craft eyes that move. Finally, he made antannae using pipe cleaner. This was his own design, he made all the parts and explained them to his speech teacher while he was putting it together. He can't do two things at once so that was a HUGE deal by itself. It's also very lifelike. I would not have gone into detail about the project except to show you how Rueben sees art as real life not abstract. He tries to get everything as precise as possible. His special ed teacher and speech therapist entered Rueben's art into the local special olympics. IT WENT ALL THE WAY TO STATE. It came back from Oklahoma City today. He won first prize in his division at state. We are estatic. It's amazing. Praise BIG TIME at our house today.
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