Wednesday May 25 2022

"We're Making Ice Cream!" - Finlay

Tuesday was a very exciting day in KW. The children decided earlier that they wanted to make ice cream from scratch and today it finally happened. We had several suggestions for flavors including cotton candy, mint chocolate and strawberry but ultimately, the children decided on...

Cookies and Cream Ice Cream!!

Unfortunately, it takes time for the ice cream to completely solidify. We had to wait a whole day to find out if it would be a delicious as it looked.

Wilder: I loved dumping it in. I loved mixing because my arm was jiggling like a it trying to dance or something 
Finlay: Mine Too!

Capers: I’m excited about eating it. We’re smelling it. It smells really (good)

Finally: I enjoyed making the ice cream

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"This is more yummy than possible!" - Lucas

"It's too too yummy in my tummy!" - Luke

Maybe Jenn wants some ice cream?

Luke: More yummy than the pizza we made
Capers: It's better than cake
Luke: It's better than my lunch
Wilder: It's better than my gummies
Remy: I'm going to mix it up
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Our Requested Language: Hand Sewing

As the year draws to a close, we have the opportunity to go to back to past languages and materials that we enjoyed. Sewing was one of the requests. The children in Rainey Room returned to sewing with renewed confidence, skills and a host of new ideas for the materials

​Frannie: Look! I sewed a letter. 
Lily: "F"
Frannie: "F" for Frannie
Jordan. Frannie, it's fabulous. 
Bea: I sewed “no touch sewing.” I sewed without (individual threads) touching other (thread) colors

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Bea's "No touch" sewing

Bea's first sewing attempt

Lily's work

Caper's first attempt

The back and front of Remy's sewing project

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Working on the Gingko Leaves

KW decided to help Jenn with the giant gingko leaves on Wednesday. It was tall order, but we were up for the challenge. The whole school has been working on the gingko leaves and KW children were eager to help. 

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Wire Sculpture

In keeping with our three dimensional work, the children worked with wire to create 3-D sculptures. They used a variety of techniques such as "no touch wire" to create new sculptures and expand their knowledge of the materials. The children focused on fine motor skills, plannings, sequences and stability as they worked with the materials. 

"This is ultra cool!" - Lucas

"I'm going to tie the wire right here" - Wilder

Capers: (Making a bump with his wire) It's a mountain. (later) It's a bug
Luke: Mine is a bug, too.
Cape: (Adding pieces of a scouring pad on wire) The bug has hair on its back
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