Above Left: (L-R) Daphne Lacina, Wellesley Howard-Larsen, Abby Prom, Sarah Gonzales, Chance Finke, and Connor Franks (leaning on the table) are sanding their canoes.
Sawtooth Elementary third graders spent time at North House Folk School the week of May 18 creating their own paddlers on canoes. The project is based on Paddle to the Sea, a 1941 book by Holling C. Holling about a young Native Canadian who creates a wooden paddler in a canoe, which he places in Lake Nipigon, from where it floats all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, experiencing many adventures along the way.
Top Right: Paraprofessional Rachel Drake assisting Randy Davis’s third graders at North House. The project involved a lot of carving and sanding. (From left) Mikey Burton, Everett Morawitz, Jacob Fenner, Chance Finke, and Rachel Drake.
Above Right: Chance Finke displaying his Paddle to the Sea canoe.
Left: North House Folk School provided a nicely detailed sample of a Paddle to the Sea figurine to inspire Sawtooth Elementary third graders
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