The students also started to show some interest with poetry. On Friday during lunch, we started signing to a tune of five syllables and made up verses about ourselves. From this Claire took her interest in the Wizard of Oz and made a poem about Dorothy. Next week we will look at a few different types of poetry and the students will be able to create a few different kinds.
It was a beautiful week this week so we spent time outdoors. A big section of the maple tree is down so the kids had a good time playing and hiding in and around the tree. We took four sections of another fallen tree from the neighbors house to use as stools in our sunflower house. It was a difficult task to roll those large pieces up the big hills but teamwork helped! Plus I think we saved A LOT of money...http://www.arborday.org/explore/sourcebook/MerchDetail.cfm?ID=2
The students also started to show some interest with poetry. On Friday during lunch, we started signing to a tune of five syllables and made up verses about ourselves. From this Claire took her interest in the Wizard of Oz and made a poem about Dorothy. Next week we will look at a few different types of poetry and the students will be able to create a few different kinds.
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We had a lot of different things going on this week. We harvested basil, broccoli, kale, cucumbers and tomatoes and on Friday we had steamed broccoli, had tomatoes with fresh mozzarella and basil, a broccoli casserole and kale chips. The steamed broccoli and kale chips were the most popular. The kids have lost a bit of interest in harvesting and weeding (except for Parker...he would rather weed than harvest?!) so, I am glad I didn't do a second round of garden planting. Next year, each child will be responsible for their own plot and it's up to them to decide what they want to grow. I think this will work well, now that we have had some experience with gardening and cooking. The tornado siren went up on Wednesday. This was fun to watch at the end of the day. I was very surprised once they put the pole in the ground they just covered it with dirt. I thought they would need to use cement. After a bit of research, I found out that a utility pole needs to go into the ground 10% of it's height plus 2 feet. So, the next day the kids and I went out and figured out how tall the pole was. We did it two ways...we measured the brown spot on the grass where it had been laying (Thank you Lucy for that idea!) and we measured the shadow. We did a ratio of the height of the shadow to my height and my shadow. The math was a little over BJ's head but we got 61ft tall with both ways! So, we figured out the hole must have been 8 feet deep. Parker stood on my shoulders to give the kids an idea of how deep the hole was that they dug. To end the lesson, I explained this was a question that came to me which we decided to investigate. I told the kids that I want to encourage them to ask questions and we will work together to find out the answers together. Store is very popular as Lucy has recently learned coins and their value. This is a role-play game which also sometimes turns into a UPS store delivering packages. They have been using my kitchen scale for the price of things but now I have price tags printed off we can use. I love the play mixed in with learning! This drawing of a young boy (the brother of one of our artists) is a composite of 16 abstract drawings done by the entire school--from kindergarten up to teacher. The photograph shown below was manipulated digitally, enlarged and chopped into 16 tiles. We did not inform the artists that the tiles were part of a larger image. They simply were asked to reproduce what they saw on each tile. Their work was then compiled to form the image you see here. It is a beautiful result, particularly because it displays the diversity of work within our group. It also, hopefully, demonstrated to the students that breaking an image into its composite parts can help us get closer to a realistic image. |
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