Tuesday, November 19, 2019

What Kind of Shiny?

Today we revisited many of the ideas we worked on last week.   Children thought again about the various categories of shiny things and how they could be described and sorted.  Here's some of their ideas:
    Grace D. -  (Examning materials)  Metal.  Kind of rubber.  Diamonds (clear gems).
    Joslin - Shiny like cubes (clear gems). 
    Louise - Hard (metal hose and brass).  But this is not hard ( green sparkly tape).
   Joslin - It's tape-y..... a roll of sparkly.
As they sort the items and materials.....
   Joslin - Where do these go? Maybe with the rainbow stuff.
   Grace D. -  Metal.
  Joslin - That's golden stuff (clear items).  That's golden stuff (golden and metallic stuff).
  Jessica  - I thought that (clear stuff) was the golden stuff?
  Joslin - Oh, that's golden (golden and metallic stuff) and that's silver (clear).
They discover more items as they look for a box to sort the stuff.....
   Grace D. - This (clear cube) I can see through it.
   Joslin - I think these gears go in different sections.
   Grace D. - They're with their family.
  Lou Lou - (Coming over to see the categories)  These are different golden.  This is crumbly golden.... actually it's crumbly silver.


Children also expressed a lot of interest in making something with this shiny stuff.  We'll keep you posted!

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Watercolors

Children worked with watercolors to represent sources of light.  Once again, we noticed how children influence each other as they work.  Today we saw a lot of sunrises, rainbows, and rainbow sunrises!

Louise

Grace D.

Grace M.

Joslin

Sally

Louise

Building with Light

Building with light and shiny materials was a big hit last week, but not everyone had a chance to do it.  Today new builders were in the areas.   Many children remembered structures or environments that had been built before and added their own interpretation.

Alexandra and Evelyn worked on two castles, with an assist from Lou Lou at the end of the day.

Austin, Sam, Lou Lou, and Sally worked on a lighthouse.  There were lots of opportunities for negotiation, collaboration, and problem solving.

Grace M. built "a fireplace that no one can touch."  It later became a museum for fire and light.

The two building areas created by Tucker Room children were saved.  It will be a wonderful surprise for their classmates tomorrow.... and we can't wait to see how it changes with the participation of different children!

Persimmons!

Children used a variety of strategies to harvest some of the persimmons today.  We were somewhat successful!  We will use them in a cooking project soon!