December 02nd, 2021

What a busy Thursday! Fay’s birthday committee was hard at work in the atelier finishing her gift, and those in the classroom had a chance to work on some pieces to display in the hallway under their school photos. Using a similar palette and concept to Bailee’s welcome book, children had the option of choosing to paint on white or black paper, carefully navigating painting on the small canvas.

Emma to Ellie: I want white. That one’s full. 

Charlton: I’m making a great white. It’s a rainbow shark. 

Rawls: I made a rainbow sky. 

We’re hoping that the miniature masterpieces bring as much joy to the hallway as they did to Bailee when she joined the Brown Room!

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Elsewhere in the classroom, children continued to explore new materials in dramatic play and on at the easel. The new materials facilitated a host of dynamic conversations, encouraging cooperative play and sharing. 

Ellie: I is hungry.
Ragnar: So what you want? We have pasta.

Emma: Cooking the carrots. Cooking the carrots. Here a pear. Here a egg. Cooking something in the kitchen. 
Ellie: I like pear. I like eggs. Yummy, yummy eggs.




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Ragnar; You want sugar in your coffee Louisa? 
Louisa: Yeah.
Ellie: I’m making eggs. May I have that (to Ragnar).
Ragnar: Can I have some? I want 2. 
Ellie handed Ragnar an egg. 

Ramsey: I have it?
Isabelle: Here (handing a lemon to Ramsey)
Rawls: I made tomatoes. Red tomatoes and green tomatoes. I made rainbow pepperonis, do you smell it? 
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Charlton and Rawls worked side by side with pastels on black easel paper and shared the following thoughts 
Charlton: Here Rawls (handing Rawls a pastel).
Rawls: I don’t need that.
Rawls rolled the pastel up and down on the paper.
Charlton looking at Rawls’ drawing: That’s a scary monster.
Rawls: No, it’s a spiderman monster.
Charlton looking at his own painting: It’s a great white. Hunting for food. 

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We also wanted to highlight Louisa's work with the magnatiles both on and off the light table. After trying several iterations of a magnatile pyramid, Louisa figured out how to trap smaller materials inside the structure.   She built a second pyramid and dropped it over the first pyramid, clapping when she realized that the magnetized tiles were attracted to one another and stuck. She then lifted the pyramid of magna-tiles up into the air and said “Perfect! It’s taking off.” ​