Photos - The Story of Calendars week 1

This month the Bongos are studying how humans have measured time throughout history! All ages will be working together in the first few weeks to make their own 2024 Calendars, a special project and well-loved tradition.

In the second part of October, the Bongos will continue their study of Time with a focus on Clocks, including reading an analog clock and calculating elapsed time, and the Bobcats will work on learning their Roman Numerals. And I'm planning a special Garden Sundial field trip to wrap up the month!

Some background information that may be useful:

Clocks & Calendars webpage

Homemade Calendars blog post

Science Club: Pumpkin Racers blog post

Art History: Louise Bourgeois blog post

We continued to read The Burgess Book of Nature Lore by Thornton W. Burgess at lunchtime. Our snacktime picture books this week related to our calendar art projects. They were Miss Suzy by Miriam Young (acorns), Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature by Joyce Sidman (fiddlehead ferns), and The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood (strawberries). I also introduced our artist of the month by reading Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois by Amy Novesky.

Here are some photos from week 5:

finishing up the MLBs by adding a summary and illustration for our field trip to the Cache River, then numbering the pages, writing the table of contents, and decorating the front & back covers

a kitten is born!

our new main lesson block topic

The Story of Clocks and Calendars
by Betsy Maestro

we begin to work on our homemade calendars

each day we work on creating artwork for the months

a lesson on solar vs. lunar calendars

the Celebration Sun from Waseca Biomes

a calendar based on the lunar year is 11 days shorter and those days slowly add up, throwing the calendar out of step with the seasons over time

joyful outdoor play at the mud kitchen

Jump One, a skip counting game

carding wool for the stuffing

sewing up and embellishing her chicken

the lavendar artwork has been one of our favorites so far

after Science Club Ms. Destinee stops by to show us Buttercup, the chick we hatched in our incubator in the spring

Wednesday, May 3

Thursday, Oct 5

she's a full grown chicken and now laying eggs of her own!

in Art History we learn more about weaving to help us understand the childhood of Louise Bourgeois

making a design on a shoebox loom

potholder loom

48 inch tapestry loom

adding details to our ongoing collaborative tapestry of the Nine Norse Worlds

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