Reconnecting After Spring Break

3/31/2023

Upon returning from our time away, our first morning meeting was an opportunity to reconnect with our friends. While sharing stories of our adventures during the break, the children made connections with each other's experiences. Ava and Cal debated about the weather in "my Florida," as they had both visited different cities there and seemed to have had different weather experiences. Louisa and Ellie talked about their families' visits to the cherry blossoms, while Zari and Isabelle shared about a playdate they had. The children were also excited to share the photographs of the sky that they had taken while away from school.

Florida Sunrise by Cal

Cal: It’s golden. I see trees and not some sand, but only the road.
Mimi: Leaves and trees.
Cal: And palm trees. And I see sky. I see some golden when the sun was setting. It was almost night time. It was time for me to go to bed.
Ellie: Maybe because it’s night.
Cal: It’s really warm in Florida.
Isabelle: It was hot in Argentina.
Ava: It was not so hot in Florida.
Karen: What else do you notice in Cal’s photograph?
Ellie: Clouds. A bush.
Zari: I see the sun coming down because it’s going to be bedtime, because usually (when) it comes up it doesn’t disappear.
Ava: If the sun doesn't see the clouds, it disappears.
Zari: When the sun goes down, the moon goes up.
Seon: I see moon in the morning, but not all the times. When I see the moon, I make a wish to send to my family.
Mimi: The sun doesn’t look like the circle anymore.
Ava: Because the sun is going down.
Mimi noticed the reflection of the sun in the puddle in the middle of the street: What's a reflection of the sky?
Seon: We saw the reflection when we were taking pictures of the sky.

Sunset in Washington, DC by Louisa

Louisa captured two photos taken at the same location, but at different times, while the sun was setting.

Louisa: It’s nighttime. This one is lighter. This one is darker. This one was first. This one was next.
Ellie: It’s (the sky) blue.
Whit: Actually, it’s blue and white.
Seon: The sunlight was setting and when the sun sets, light and blue mix together to make the red and orange.
Ellie: I think it’s purple and pink in the sky. You mix it all, all the colors together and that makes it (the sky at sunset) purple.

The Sky, The Trees and The Fence by Zari

Zari: My photograph has the sky, the trees and the fence. It’s all blue.
Karen: Is it all the same color clue?
Mimi: No, it’s light blue, too!
Zari: It was at nighttime when Daddy was not there.
Emma: How do you know it’s night time?
Zari: Because it’s cold.
Karen: What do you see though that make you think that it was at nighttime?
Seon: First, the blue mixes with the sun and the sun mixes the blue into two colors (the blue and the light blue) and the two colors get together to form the sky.
Louisa: Why is there not a sunset? Mine was at night time.
Zari: It was literally at night time.
Louisa: Sunsets happen at nighttime.

Keep sending those photos in via email. More children will share next week and the conversations will continue!