Exploring New Tools In the Brown Room

On Tuesday and Wednesday, we explored light using  new tools, an “Elmo” document camera and the projector. The document camera allows us to share the children’s work from a table top to the larger shadow screen when it is attached to the projector. The children had a plethora of materials from which to choose to make their creations and designs.

Early in our explorations, Fay made an observation about how the projector and the document camera were working,
​ "It’s showing the green carpet!"

On the first day of our exploration with our new tools, Charlton, Ramsey and Rawls spent a lot of time creating structures and objects to project on the screen:
Rawls referred to the marker tops, "I'm going to make a rainbow tower. These are all different colors."
Ramsey looked at the creation he had made using a wooden skewer and wooden knob and stated, "My lollipop is watermelon. A mix of strawberry and watermelon."
Rawls described his creation, "This is like lollipop. Yellow. Yellow. Pineapple. I mixed it up with a mango. I make a red on this time so it’s going to be strawberry."
Charlton: I got strawberry!

More children were excited by the prospect of new tools in the Brown Room and joined in the exploration on Wednesday.  
Seon looked at all the materials commenting, "Whoah!"  
Cal noticed his friends exploring and asked, "Hi guys, Can I try?"
Louisa worked with Seon to create a design using a variety of materials.
Isabelle noticed the marker caps on the table and asked  "Paper, where are you?" before going to the message center to find paper and bringing it back to use with the document camera. 

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​Seon looked at the screen,
"It’s blocks! Feathers! It’s a beautiful. Yum, yum, yum."
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Other Happenings in the Brown Room

Elsewhere, children were busy building at the light table,  creating with wire and various materials at the studio and working at the message center throughout the morning.