Tuesday

Rainey B :  MAKING A CLOUD

"We made a snow cloud. We went up and down with wire."-Lucia

​The idea of making a cloud came alive this week. With the shift from sunny days to an overcast sky, Giacomo and Maxon voiced thoughts about clouds and the absence of the rainbow(s) on the wall.

 "The clouds are blocking the sun." -Giacomo.
"The rainbows gone. Oh no! ...Behind the rain clouds." -Maxon 
Melanie asked the children, "What if we had a cloud? What if there was a cloud here (pointing in the direction of the window and ceiling)? ... What if we made a cloud?" Today we took on the creative challenge and let the snowfall inspire us.

"These (lines being drawn around the circle) are these (points at the cloud contours pictured on the cover of All the World). They're cloud bumps!" -Giacomo

"It was snowing and we made a snow cloud." -Giacomo

​Getting started with a long stretch of wire to create the frame and shape for our cloud.

EXPLORING THE MATERIALS

"A snow cloud of white puffy things." -Maxon

"This can wrap around here..." -Giacomo

Giacomo chooses to wrap twine around the wire cloud frame. But, first a knot has to be tied around the wire. With  persistence Giacomo succeeds in tying the knot!

Then comes the chicken wire to help give our cloud more structure and form.

What followed was an awareness of two separate cloud parts: the wire frame and the chicken-wire armature. The idea followed  to connect the two. How to do it?

Use a thinner gauge, lighter weight wire, in a thread like way, to attach the chicken wire "cloud bumps"to the wire frame. By the end of the day, we had a completed cloud structure! It just needs to be filled out with "white puffy things." 

"We went up and down on the cloud."
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Stay tuned for more on our cloud!
We hope to have a gallery walk on Friday morning.