Today was my first real visit to SAIL (we visited as a class once before). It was interesting. The kids were making inventions for their "invention convention". They really got into it and thought about what they were making. They were mostly painting today and finished up their projects which would be displayed. I had a hard time physically being in the classroom which is in a cramped basement and had poor ventilation so the fumes kind of got to me.
The truth is that the kids are not an easy group and the teacher handled them well, especially since a lot of them came in sugar high from free ice cream. She does border on the sarcastic at times and I think some of her harsher comments aren't helpful to the learning disabled/special ed student body she has. She also pretends to kick the kids but her daughter is in one of the classes and she actually kicked her in the behind. Not cool. The materials made it a little difficult to work with because the paint was clumpy and didn't squeeze out well.
To me, it was a normal art class. Nothing special, nothing that particularly exciting. They painted, they glued, they puttered around. There was a lot of chaos at clean up but no more than can be expected. So it was nice, just not impressive.
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