Making the "I" with Homemade Paper
Making our Initial with Homemade PaperThe Children also had the opportunity to use the paper pulp to make their initial. Brigitte - Isabelle and Ellie made paper pulp Bailee - It'so gross! Ellie - It's paper and it looks like food coloring Bailee - It feels like a paper towel Adaline - It's paper and water Ellie - Then we put it in the blender, we blended it up and then we put it on our letter Bailee - I want to put food coloring on my Letter Ava - I put food coloring on my pancake and it taste so good when its cooked. Zari - It so gooey! it is all wet and mushy. Adaline - You pick up the mush and put it on a screen. You have to roll up your sleeves Ellie - You put food coloring on it, but not too much. You can also add flower petals Cal - It's mushy, it's so mushy, because it's wet Rawls - EU..EU.... EU... it's gross, it's gross. What is it called? Brigitte - It's called paper pulp Ford - How do you make this slime? Brigitte - It's not slime, it's paper pulp, does it feel like slime? Ford - Yes, It's like slime. (Ellie repeated the paper pulp making process to Ford, wet paper in a blender) This week our Table Setters were Ava and Whit, Pierce and Cal.
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Is it Spring??We have enjoyed the beautiful weather during our outdoor classroom time! This week, classrooms are writing one blog as teachers prepare for Spring Conferences.
CW will post a blog on Friday this week. Thinking About the Letter P
Something Cool in ConstructionJen brought in six amazing golden pedestals that she had found. We've added them to the construction area. Children have been having fabric, small bats and other creatures from string suspended between the poles as they build environments for their stuffed animals. Field Trip to the CanalWhy do we go on field trips in CW? A conversation about why do we have to go on field trip during CW came up and we talked about how valuable those walks are for the children in order to explore their school 's neighborhood, and to learn how to manage field trips, it's a good practice. As we were walking down toward the canal, Gracie said : " My mommy never took me here." Brigitte : " We are in Georgetown" Gracie: "Oooh that's Georgetown, I love it." The children loved to run around the maze and look at the Potomac river. And of course, because we are in CW, we had to have a drawing breakThe weather was hotter than we expected, but we had packed up plenty of water, and everyone did a great! Our Table Setters this week were: Ellie and Ford, Adaline and Zari, Bailee and Eliza, Isabelle and Rawls.Lucile came for a visitThe Letter "O"- Metal on Metal - WillWe DO need an "O" !- WillThis week, during lunch, Will noticed that the lid from his food container was the same shape as the letter "O". "DING DING DING !~ (What a great idea) Will and Ellie found a large metal lid in the tucker closet and went to investigate our hallway documentation to see if we needed the letter "O". They figured out that we needed an "O" for our CW title, and another "O" for our alphabet chart. Metal was one the ideas CW children generated at the beginning of the project. Ellie and Pierce went to look for metal pieces in the Tucker Closet to create metal on metal collages. After gathering enough metal pieces, the children went in the atelier to work on their metal collages. We had smaller metal lids available for anyone who wanted to make a small metal collage "O". There was so much excitement among the children about the metal pieces to choose from, it was like finding treasures. Gracie - We can glue that ring on because it's made out of metal Eliza - What about this? ( a nail) Will - Look I found an old fashion key! Ellie - I found an owl! Rawls - We are making little plates Pierce - We found metal stuff and we glue them on the metal "O" Will - Yeah, like different kinds of metal, like keys, and rings Pierce - And a chain Also in the Atelier...Lots of beautiful drawings and writings are happening in the atelier. The CW children have been making beautiful "Get well cards" for Zari's grandmother "Nana" and for their family as well. This week the table setters were : Fay and Jack, Charlton and Pierce, Ava and Gracie, Will and Cal. Book MakingOn March 5th, SJEP offered a book making workshop after school, some of our friends could not come, but wanted to make books too, so we offered it in CW. Will decided to use his new book right away to write the whole alphabet in it. A Fire Alarm for the Cob House!Our recent and unexpected fire drill sparked some new ideas! Will thought that we should build a fire alarm for the Cob House outside. The new "Fire Alarm" in the Cob House has a lever you can pull down to activate it. (a coffee sleeve, a stick, 2 clips, and wire.)
Letters with Light (and Shadow)Last month, children generated a list of different ways to form letters. They mentioned using light and shadow. This week, they were definitely up for the challenge! Construction with Light and ShadowThe projector and shadow screen were also part of our construction work. It will come as no surprise that the main idea was building animal enclosures for a farm. A few other things...
Our Children's Workshop Title is taking shape...And so is our Alphabet ChartThe CW children have been working diligently on creating new letters for our CW title and Alphabet chart. This week, the children finished sewing the letter "K " and they also finish the letter "L" using the art of quilling. Sewing the letter "K"Quilling the letter "L"The CW children also love to walk back and forth from the Tucker Room to the hallway to check which letters of the alphabet need to be done, and go back in the Atelier to draw them. Eliza choose to draw the letter "Q" and Ellie choose the letter "X". We are always on the look out for letters. Whit found two "Y" in the outdoor classroom. In the construction Area, Ford, Charlton , and Whit built "Nicey Icey Land" Ford - The penguins had a shelter. The death animals (enemies) went to all the houses. Charlton - A robot arm came up and grabbed them and threw them into traps. Whit - My puppy had a little part of Icey Land. Ford - The penguins loved Icey Land. Whit - Tomorrow is going to be fire land. In the Atelier, The CW children are busy drawing and trying new paint markers. We love to play Doggy-Doggy in the outdoor Classroom. This week our Table Setters were : Ford and Zari, Adaline and Ellie, Bailee and Isabelle, Whit and Lillian. On Friday, Eva (Brigitte's daughter) was our special sub.
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