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!
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