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Article: Creative juices flow at school.(Schools)(Charter: The Lighthouse School, modeled after Eugene's Village School, uses art, music and dance.)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- November 25, 2002
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Byline: LARRY BACON The Register-Guard
NORTH BEND - The lesson begins with a story about a generous lady named Gwenyth Give-away who lives high in the misty mountains.
Then teacher Maggie Partner tells the blended class of second- and third-graders to divide their art paper into thirds and use their crayons to draw three rows of mountains representing where Gwenyth lives. She tells them to draw three peaks in the top section, four in the middle section and five in the bottom section.
As the kids color, triangles begin to emerge - lots of triangles.
"How many triangles?" Partner asks, writing the numbers on the blackboard as the students ...