Wednesday, September 19, 2018

New Experiences with Familiar Friends.
Thank you to Caroline and her sons Eaton and Adney, and Happy Yom Kippur, Allison!

Follow up from yesterday when we began our conversations about our special item from home:

“I just decided to bring this.”  -Hugh

Tell us about what you brought from home to school.

Hugh shares about his Eiffel Tower Replica

Some Background
It was originally my sisters and she gave it to me. ​So, you might not walk under the Eiffel Tower... You might not know but when I was a baby I walked under (motions under with hand) the Eiffel Tower. So I brought this in. You can kinda see the Eiffel Tower if you look down it. You look down it at the tip. See? Like you can see that it gets smaller and smaller as it gets like to the end where the tip is.  (He passes the Eiffel Tower replica around for all to look under and down it to the “tip.”) 

​Cate: When did your sister give that to you?
Hugh: Oh a long time ago.
Hugh: But when I was three, you might not know this, I went to France.
Tommy: How do you remember?
Hugh: I have some like rememory. I have pictures, right? The Eiffel Tower, under it, was a long time ago. The other one was a long time ago too, but I still remember it. I think we maybe even bought this in the tippy top of the Eiffel Tower.

Composition & Material - Fragility, Durability, Metal or Gold?

Will: Is that fragile?
Hugh: No.
Allison: Does everyone know what fragile means?
Cate: It means glass.
Tegan and Maisie: It means it breaks really easily.

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Hugh: I know what this is. Metal. Metal is like glass.
Hugh: Oh wait no, this is gold. Gold... I’m going to tell you about this gold. Hear this sound?
Tommy: I want to make a sound.
Caleb: Actually do you know that gold is really bendy.
Cate: I don’t think you should do that because then it might break.
Caleb: Gold is bendy.
Cate: And gold is breakable.
James: Yeah it’s really bendy.
Cate: I once got gold paper and when I even touched it it broke.
Hugh: See that’s pretty strong metal. … I just like to land it like so high and BONK.
Cate:What if you stood up and dropped it?
Maisie: What if you stood up on a bridge and dropped it?

Making Connections

Dagny: One time I went up to the tippy top of the Eiffel Tower.
Hugh: Oh, I thought you were not allowed to… How’d you get up there? 
There were stairs.
Dagny: No there was an elevator. And I went to this top, the top that hold the point.
Hugh: Okay, so I never went up there but I did go under here. Sometimes...I already know this but I can show you the Eiffel Tower gets water under it.
Dagny: Well, there’s a restaurant at the top.
Hugh: What the heck?! Ooh… Is it like one of those spinning restaurants? 
Dagny: No, it’s not a spinning restaurant, just a restaurant.
Elena: When I was born in the Eiffel Tower my momma and poppa come. In the Eiffel Tower I was born with mommy in her tummy.
Hugh: I’m pretty sure there is no hospital up here.

 Why did you choose to bring this special item into school?

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"All of you like Paris and stuff so like France and stuff so I decided to bring this in."  -Hugh

James: We built the Eiffel Tower before, remember, Hugh? When we were in the Rainey Room.

Side conversations (competing about long distance sight, relative to being able to see the tippy-top of the Eiffel Tower... Imagine.)

I can see the end of the world! -Maisie
I can see antartica right now! -Cate
I can see a watercolor. -Elena
I can see farther than antartica! -James
I can see an ice cream truck. -Hugh
I can see Britaly.I mean Italy! ... Oh I can see the antartica! -Tommy