![]() ![]() The courtyard was a bare, sandy pallet with lots of potential and the promise of a young audience that walked the edges daily on their way to the media center, the cafeteria and their classrooms. ![]() It also served as inspiration for the plot just outside her door. ![]() The book, with beautiful illustrations by Francesca Crespi, was useful in teaching young students about the 19th century impressionist movement begun in France by artists such as Claude Monet. Her hankering started soon after she took the teaching position, and about the same time she happened upon a pop-up book called A Walk in Monet's Garden. For more than 10 years, art teacher Gayle Ratza had been itching to spruce up the courtyard outside her classroom at Fox Hollow Elementary School. ![]()
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