Rainey Room research trip to The Renwick Gallery We're outside where the door was." - Christopher, 3.10 years (during reflection)
"That's my symbol!" - Gracie, 4.1 years "It's the rainbow room!" - Rainey Room "We were talking." - Adaline, 4.2 years Other Instillations "I can show my whole family! I would show my family the rainbow room." - Georgia, 4.0 years "I saw glittering lights on the steps. I love them." - Lillian, 3.8 years "These are the sparkly lights I drew on top. The criss cross is the steps." - Caroline "Do you remember our shadows were colorful?" - George Reflections on our trip While we reflected through drawing and conversation upon our return to school, we spent the rest of the week revisiting through photos projected onto the shadows screen, conversation with Jen, and through recreating our own "rainbow room" with the fabrics and clips. Drawing to reflect
Reflection through dramatic play "I liked the rainbow room when it changes colors. I saw different colors when it was changing. My dress was kind of changing into a different color." - Lillian We encourage you to revisit the Renwick Gallery with your child over the break, or any time really! It is free entry, and there are so many amazing things to see - it is truly inspirational. The children did see many of the pieces of art, but they had so many thoughts and questions, and we certainly did not see it all!
For additional information about exhibits and visiting hours, etc. please see their website below. https://americanart.si.edu/visit/renwick If you do visit again, please let us know. We would love to hear from you all about the experience and see photographs as well!
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We've Turned Four!December has been quite the bustle! We've been excitedly talking about the upcoming holiday with decorations, trees and lights, the enthusiasm for shadows (and yesterday's trip to the Renwick), parent participation and support, a luminary walk tonight, and three non-December birthday celebreationss! But... Our Rainey Room school birthday celebrations are typically separate from our actual birthdays. We're now six kits in, with seven more to create and give, in celebration, next year. Yay! Happy Birthday, Eliza!
Enjoy making people you love and more, Eliza! Happy Birthday, Gracie!Enjoy making your ghost costume, Gracie! Celebrating Eliza and Gracie
Enjoy making rainbows rings, Georgia! Merry celebrations to everyone!
"Shadows don't have faces." - Will As part of this cognitive conflict, we invited the children to find their shadows outside, photograph each other with their shadows, and then draw based on the photograph. We anticipated that this would draw attention to the features of their bodies vs. shadows and the angle of the shadow in relation to the body. We also used this opportunity to introduce graphite - our knowledge of this tool is that it is a great way to fill in larger spaces, offers a color that matches the shadow, and does not smudge as much as pastels. Gracie, 4.1 years George, 4.3 years
Georgia, 4.0 years Caroline, 3.6 years Lillian, 3.7 years
Building Interesting Shadows"We need to keep materials to build interesting shadows." - George, 4.3 years ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thank you for your support in the classroom!Thank you Laura and Ashley for cutting some fantastic shapes for our ECES Light and Shadow workshop. They are also being used by the Tucker Room! Megan and Jackie joined us for clay in the atelier this week. It was so wonderful for the children to share their expertise with you both! We hope you can join us again.
Drawing Our Book Fair Shadow PeopleThe "people" created to be placed in the Blake Hall windows for the book fair were made with the intention of making a shadow. An opportunity to more fully appreciate these shadows was given to the children by placing a shadow person on the overhead projector for the children to trace.
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