In honor of Indigenous Heritage Month, Kindergarten learned about the Native American powwow dance demonstration. The Powwow, or Wachipi, is prevalent in the Choctaw Nation men and originated among the Plains tribes.​

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Students used observation to draw the key features of an eagle's feather ( hawk feathers are also used traditionally), each feather matters for assembling the bustle in the theme of this pillar of the month: Cooperation. 

Kinders are connecting art with science when learning about texture through a body scan, using descriptive words such as hairy, squishy, soft, hard, and pointy. To then connect to a hedgehog body and how they have a pointy nose, sharp quills (to protect from predators), but soft bellies like us!

They created color rubbings from texture plates ( for the ground nesting), and later they will watch how a hedgehog gets ready for the yearly hibernation. 

Stamping the quills with the edge of a cardboard, then cutting and pasting a hibernating body.