I had stopped volunteering for Art Vistas at least 2 years ago when the school hired an art teacher to teach most of the classes.  This year I signed up as a helper.  I missed the first class while I was in Colorado in Sept, and the second class was last week.  Since I left being an art docent volunteer, they had put together an art classroom; it looked so nice to have all the supply in this classroom compared to how I used to have to gather all the needed supplies and to bring and set up the kids’ classroom or the cafeteria.  This art teacher was nice and calm; the format of the class basically was still the same as how we were told to teach the classes previously.  Being there reminded me how much I enjoyed these art classes.

   It was great spending time with Connor along with meeting his classmates and helping them too.  The class this time was about pointillism and the kids were to dip and dap paint to make a painting.  The class was given quite a bit of time and the entire class lasted 1.5 hours.  The kids made nice artwork, and I enjoyed being there.

    Another cool thing was when we talked about this over dinner at night, the boys said they still remembered when I used to teach those classes.  Logan also added that his classmates thought I did a great job too; this was the first I heard this from him and of course I was quite happy about it.