The little ones

Pure concentration

Our volunteers

This is teacher Annelies, she is also known as the flower lady.

Here is teacher Heleen helping. Most children already know her, she is also "teacher Stenapa".

This is teacher Trudy, she lives on the island from Nov. to March.

And this is teacher Ankie, she is also a member of Statia Pride.

Now we started with the little ones

At the Golden Rockschool we started with the older children, at the SDA school we had all the classes mixed up and this week at the Methodist school we started with the younger ones. Next week we have half of group 4, group 5, 6, 7 and 8.
Let's see if these last groups can paint.
We don't seem to get enough!
I would like to thank Olga (she is with me every day), Trudy (she has an enormous amount of patience), Heleen (she is awfully busy with Stenapa, her children and the school of her children, but also manages to help us) Annelies (well known as "the flower lady", she enjoys helping too) and Ankie (Trudy, cheerfull and a great help). Also Petra, who helped us when we were starting up, she is off island now.
Last week it was great, we were so happy with your help, this coming week will get easier by the day, I very much look forward to it!
Pictures will follow.

Methodist School group 3

Today and yesterday we did group 3 and group 1 of the Bethel methodist school. These two paintings are from group 3 children. One of the chidren decided she has a long and skinny face, the other one thinks her face is big and round. We try not to help the children but to really make their own decisions while painting. Which has great results. Some children have true artistic talent and most love to paint. 

Terminal School

I always give examples of shapes a your head. After that, the children look in the mirror to see what shape they have. 

Only 6 children that do elementary scohool at the terminal school. Each of them has an individual program. On Wednesday afternoons they have art class, so that was the best time for us to come by.

 Teacher Hilda Doek joint the class. Somehow her  portrait resembles her. I guess it is in the eyes. 

Paintings

Some of the 250 paintings we have now. Another 140 to go!

Governor de Graaffschool

Here you see some pictures of the children of Gov de Graaffschool. Teacher Eric also made a portrait as you can see.
We did the Governor de Graaffschool in two days, yesterday group 7 and 8, today group 1 to 4 and group 5 and 6. The school is small, the atmosphere is great. The children were very supportive of each other. Today, we had two visitors, Elaine Marchena from OCW and Rens van der Hammen from RCN. They are making an article for the education magazine for Bonaire, Statia and Saba.