Week Eight Photos

These photos go with the post Week Eight Notes (week of Oct 24).

Southern magnolia - broadleaf evergreen

bald cypress - deciduous conifer 

Chia - domesticated rabbit and our class pet!

first thing Monday morning we start collecting acorns to solve our Autumn Color-by-Number with Sums (PDF)

we also tackle the question of "Is It Sculpture?"

all of our art cards for this are listed here:  Is It Sculpture?

a Barbara Hepworth-inspired soap carving exploration

the children were extremely excited about this and worked for over an hour

we save all the scraps to use in Ghost Mud on Halloween

Barbara Hepworth liked her sculptures to be displayed outside, so we do the same when we photograph them

"An Acorn and a Ladybug on a Leaf"

we discover that a toothpick slides easily into the soap and is the best way to attach a sculpture to its base

the children enjoy finding places in the landscape where their sculptures feel at home

friends can become part of nature too!

this really startled me when I walked around the corner!

adding inventors to the MLB

Inventor Margaret Knight

Inventor Tony Sarg

the children dictate to me what they want their sentence to be

then they copy what I scribed, using correct capitalization and punctuation as well as spelling

Projects of Personal Interest:  Creative Writing

Haunted Houses of Speech

BINGO (the classic version) provides good practice in reading two digit numbers

Gnoming A Round provides good practice in adding positive and negative numbers

making a card to help with Jump One 

marble maze

Projects of Personal Interest:  Alchemy

making models of elements using The Atom Board

when they get to Mercury we realize that we don't have enough Neutron beads, so I order more

I also get a clear acrylic jar to sit in the nucleus and hold all the beads!

pausing to make pencils beautiful

they have really loved having Prismacolor pencils this year!

drawing a scale model of the Layers of the Atmosphere up the driveway

looking at how the Galileo Thermometer works

at the end of each day, the Plastic Utensils brainstorm a list including everything that happened that day, and I write it on the chalkboard

they then fill in their own plan books listing what they personally worked on

for the Pterodactyls, I scribe their plans and they add the colored dots in the margin (each work is color coded by subject area)

Thursday's field trip to the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis

when we walk up the steps from the parking garage this Calder sculpture is the first thing we see!

a lithograph by Barbara Hepworth

they also have two Hepworth bronzes and a mahogany piece

the children sketch intently

we ask why the final piece isn't displayed outside, as Hepworth would have wanted...

and the interpreter tells us she will ask the curator of outside art if that would be possible

maybe the next time we come, this sculpture will be outside!

they have one more piece on display by Calder

and a painting by our December artist, Jackson Pollock, as well

plus lots of other VERY COOL modern and contemporary art!

I highly recommend visiting this museum!

https://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu

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