With Artist-in-Residence,
Joni Joachims!
Joni guided our Bear Cubs through so many creative art explorations these past two weeks! Every project took a number of days to complete, and Joni always had the next activity ready to go while the first was drying. We had a fabulous time and learned so much!
We are taking care of all of our plants. As the weather warms we LOVE enthusiastically watering them!
We have been working with the decimal system, comparing the proportions of a single unit, a ten, one hundred and one thousand. We are composing numbers using numerals and wooden materials. A few of us are ready to see what happens if we add our quantities together!
Let's see... One of us brought 2365 and the other brought 1223. We'll start by adding the units... (counting while moving them one by one down to the bottom) That's 8! Let's put the big numeral here and add the tens. And so forth... All absolutely hands-on.
Wait a minute, something doesn't look quite right when we double check... Let's count those hundreds again!
We figured out the mistake and wrote down the addition problem... then did another one the next day. Wow, we agreed that this was a different kind of "big job!"
Remember those clay figures we made and painted last week? This week we painted an undersea background on cardboard, then glued our dried figures on.
We had to be s-o-o-o careful because our pieces were fragile!
We think that our seascapes are beautiful!
Joni traced around our bodies and showed us her talent by giving us quick facial and hair details. It is amazing to see what an artist can do with well placed simple lines! We then added lots of details that we needed to think about before drawing...
Next to our heads, Joni asked us to draw two things: something we liked to see and something we liked to smell. Above: "I like to see long green snakes crawling."Below: "I like to smell a flower."
"I really liked seeing the Statue of Liberty."
"I like seeing AND smelling watermelon!"
"I like smelling an orange. I ate it and it's going down my esophagus!"
"Flowers smell good... and they're pretty to look at, too."
"I like seeing birds fly."
We adults never fully realize the influence we can have with our children, and what they might be absorbing from our choices!
On our first warm day, Cathy came to school with her jeans rolled up. Mid-way through the morning, our friend noticed and rolled up his own jeans. Later, when asked why he had decided to roll up his pant legs, he said, "I saw Cathy's and it was a good idea!"
What is that saying? Something about great minds thinking alike?!
"I really liked seeing the Statue of Liberty."
"I like seeing AND smelling watermelon!"
"I like smelling an orange. I ate it and it's going down my esophagus!"
"Flowers smell good... and they're pretty to look at, too."
"I like seeing birds fly."
We adults never fully realize the influence we can have with our children, and what they might be absorbing from our choices!
On our first warm day, Cathy came to school with her jeans rolled up. Mid-way through the morning, our friend noticed and rolled up his own jeans. Later, when asked why he had decided to roll up his pant legs, he said, "I saw Cathy's and it was a good idea!"
What is that saying? Something about great minds thinking alike?!Judith
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