youth art team students are brilliant

What a night at Youth Art Team! The students drew sketches of Waterloo.

They brainstormed some things about their community that they might want to write their play about.
They looked at historical books that gave them more clues about what makes Waterloo, IA, unique and interesting.
Students grouped up, went to the public library, and each group chose one Waterloo topic to research. Our group chose to learn about the Five Sullivan Brothers. These five brothers grew up in Waterloo and all served in the Navy on the U.S.S. Juneau in WW II. They were all killed when their ship was bombed in 1942.
Youth Art Team students were brilliant at researching and sketching their community topic.
Each group returned to Harvest and reported on their topic. This group researched Lou Henry Hoover, President Hoover's wife who grew up in Waterloo! They had fascinating trivia about First Lady Hoover.
Heidi wrote down some interesting facts as each team reported. Here's our group reporting on the Five Sullivan Brothers. They told the other Youth Art Team members that the brothers liked to hunt, fish, ride motorcycles, and dance Irish dances while they were growing up in Waterloo.
This group reported on the four "green goddesses" seen perched on top of one of our downtown's buildings. Brilliant! I learned a lot that I didn't know about the statues.
Here's a group that talked about the "Mother of Waterloo". Mary Hanna, who rode in on a wagon and found the Cedar River to be CLEAR! Amazing!
The Youth Art Team voted about which topic they'd like to write their play about. Five Sullivan Brothers won the vote. On to the next step of producing a play!
As always, we closed up the night in a circle prayer and Youth Art Team cheer. Go, Youth Art Team!