Wednesday, November 8, 2023

11/7/2023

Happy Birthday, Molly!

The CW children love to carry out various number functions, including counting and adding. Molly's birthday provided a great opportunity to think about the number 60.
How many ways are there to get to 60?
   Ford - There's probably only 5 ways.
Seon - I believe there's a lot of ways. Sixty is six tens, so you can just make six tens.
   Ellie - Little kids are not sixty.
   Grace - Big girls are!
   Ellie - Molly is sixty.
 Ford - She's sixty! That's kind of young!

Using materials and drawings, children found several ways to represent 60!

A New Approach to Drawing

The CW children have enjoyed exploring the drawing materials in the atelier. As we reflected on their work, we realized that coloring in objects with markers can present challenges. This week, we started drawing or tracing leaf shapes, and using watercolors to complete the leaves. The children reflected on their work:
   Fay -It's much easier to fill in (the leaves) with watercolors.
   Ellie - I want to put them on the window so the light shines through.
   Zari - My rainbow leaf is a pattern.
   Isabelle - I did a pattern: red, yellow, red, yellow. I did a lot of little ones (leaves) and one big one.

Tablesetting

The table setters for our short week were Fay, Ava, Will, and Ford. Ava and Fay collaborated on their table arrangements. Will used a lot of orange in his table setting. At lunch he said, "This would be perfect for an orange day."

Is this November?

The weather has been incredible this week! During our time in the outdoor classroom, we have noticed children trying new things and demonstrations their strength and coordination! We can't wait to talk about this, and everything else, during our conference days!