PART 2- Tessellations Let's have fun with quilts at Althea's @ St. Monica's after-school program series - part 2! In this session, children will continue learning about the Gullah people in Gee's Bend, Alabama and the art of making quilts. They will explore other selected poems from the book Stitchin and Pullin" by Patricia McKissack, learn about shapes, tessellations, and tiles, create and move quilt blocks to make tessellations, and make their own tessellation with paper an

African-based Gullah Quilt, Song, & Language First- and second-graders enjoyed the 2025-2026 After-School Workshops, which are a mixture of *SoBA and STEAMSS* programs adapted for specific age groups and even mixed-aged groups. The Fall 2025 Quilt Series Part 1 began Tuesday, October 7th, with the Althea Augustine Technology Center, Inc. (Althea’s) at St. Monica’s. The children had printed sheets of the lyrics and loudly sang the African-based Gullah song, Kumbaya, along wi

PART 1- Gullah People Let's have fun with quilts at Althea's @ St. Monica's after-school program series! Children will learn about the Gullah people in Gee's Bend, Alabama. They will explore greetings in the Gullah language, sing a Gullah's song called 'Kumbaya', read selected poems from the book Stitchin and Pullin" by Patricia McKissack, learn about quilts and the women quilters in Gee's Bend. In addition, they will make both a paper and a fabric quilt block. The kids will