Three-year old students in Kirk Altman's Pre-Kindergarten class at
Pinedale Elementary are learning how to help out the community while having fun and creating art as they participate in the Second Harvest North Florida Empty Bowls Project.
The Empty Bowls Project demonstrates community support for those who are coping with hunger in North Florida. Area students, senior citizen groups, local potters, ceramic artists and celebrities create original, handcrafted ceramic bowls for the Annual Empty Bowls Luncheon, now in its 25th year. The Empty Bowls Luncheon is one the community's most recognizable events for raising support and awareness of the issue of hunger in Northeast Florida.
This is the third year Altman's students were selected to participate in the project. Typically, only older students (second grade and above) participate, so Altman is very excited that his pre-kindergartners get to take part again.
Using clay and paint donated from Atlantic Pottery Supply in Jacksonville Beach, Altman and his paraprofessional, Karen George, helped students shape and glaze the bowls, which will then be fired in the kiln at school.
"It is important for students at this age to be able to interact with materials like clay and paint to create something," said Altman. "We may even have some of our students who benefit directly from the Empty Bowls Project, so we are thankful to be involved."
For more pictures from the Empty Bowls Project at Pinedale Elementary, visit the DCPS' flickr Photostream.
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