Wednesday, December 18, 2019

12/18/2019

Reflecting:
thoughts and light

During our meetings children occasionally initiate conversation about our ongoing investigative wonderings. This was the case today when Grace . said, "I have something to say." When the children do this it causes us to wonder about the ways children process concepts over time and how they have come to understand the culture of our meeting time together. They seem to reflect back to us that meeting is a time when we can think, wonder, and reflect; work through our thoughts to better understand a topic.

Here's what was said today:

Grace: "Light is a kind of thing that reflects your body."

Lou Lou: "Light can reflect sometimes glass and when the moon goes down and the sun comes up it can reflect light."

One of the choices after lunch was to add pieces previously prepared for the reflective light project. Most were items the children had added glitter to yesterday while a few others were things which had fallen off of the light. There was a lot of thought today about what will make these carefully created pieces stay on the light for "a very long time." -Louise Further explaining how long the items should stay on the light, Grace added, "after we aren't in Tucker anymore."

Louise attempted to attach a metal piece to the frame with a thin wire, but it didn't hold. She returned to the wire. "This is a big one so it needs..." She cuts a thicker wire.

Grace observes the piece she had glued together yesterday and responds to the materials.

Louise explains her decision: "This one is heavy so that's why I used a long wire." Louise wrapped the wire tightly around the frame.

"It's like a worker factory." - Grace

Collaboration continued throughout the children's work as they offered their help to one another and combined ideas to solve problems. At one point, Grace found she needed a stronger wire. Jessica held up a thicker wire that had been twisted and leftover on the tray, mentioning it just needed to be straightened out. Maren, coming over, offered, "I can straighten it." She held onto each end of the wire and pulled her arms apart in an outward motion. She then handed the wire to Grace, "Here you go." Grace replied, "Thank you so much, Maren."

Giving

On our final day of KW before the new year...children wrapped up gifts to go home over break, created holiday messages to go with their gifts, and wrote other individual messages. One particularly special message was a card to go with Gini's gift of three candle votives.

Sewing

Recently a couple of our KW friends visited Early Birds and began a hand-sewing project. They asked to finish another day, so we thought it would be a good time to begin some sewing experiences in KW. Today the children worked at hand-sewing.