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A Little Bit of Everything

9/29/2020

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Rainey Room B

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What began as empty, open floor space was transformed into a collaborative work as a connected track. The work emerged from Cedar, Jane, and Janie exploring the spaciousness of the area as they ran, one behind the other in a loop. The idea to, instead, construct a track for the animals was proposed and the three of them were quick to accept the idea and manifest it. The collective energy was channeled into the act of building, and soon others became curious and interested joined in, to participate and contribute to the shared project. 
​"It's for them to run around... For all the animals to run around! So they can all run around." -Jane
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Exploring the Language of Sewing for Portfolio Drawers

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"I'm good at stopping." -Maxon
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Photography and the Camera

An interaction with Elena this morning led to a suggested idea to make and send messages to Rainey Room  A. What kind of message? "We can build something for Rainey Room A," said Cedar. Janie replied, "But we can't take the blocks from our room." "We can take pictures of it," Cedar said in return. How will we get the pictures to them? "We could send them," Cedar answered. But wait... How do we get the photo(s) from the camera to send the picture to them? "Maybe we could cut them out. ... How could we  cut the pictures out of the camera to get them? ... I know what we can do to cut them out. Use scissors," Sylvie said, offering a solution. Giacomo replied, "We can't cut them out. The pictures are on the camera." 

Music from DC: Going Local with "Go Go" 

Our snack time music region request for today was VA from Giacomo and Washington, DC from Sylvie. Sylvie had not yet had a turn choosing so, we took her choice and kept it local with an introduction to Go Go. Maxon asked to dance so we at the end of the day we danced to the Go Go tunes introduced earlier, music by Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers. Twirling, twisting, jumping, toppling, they loved it! Check out Seesaw for a video
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Other places we have musically traveled to, or introduced, this far: Australia (didgeridoo), India (Ravi Shankar and Zakir Hussein), Africa (Kenya and Morocco), Jamaica (Bob Marley), Svalbard (we didn't find any regionally unique music for this are except ambient/relaxing), China (pipa) *red=selected by random spinning and stopping of  globe

Collecting Our Summer Memory Boxes (and Summer Journals)


​We'd love to fill out our semi-bare shelves with the memory boxes and summer journals! We have three memory boxes and three summer journals. We understand the  work definitely takes time. We're ready when they are. 
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Jordan's Summer Memory box
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Melanie's Summer Memory box
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Rainey Room A: 

Fall is in the air and applecake is on the table! On Friday Violet’s family went apple picking after school, and on Monday she gifted the class with a bag full of fresh, delicious apples! During snack we brainstormed about what to do with said apples, and eventually settled on baking a cake! ​



What can we make with apples?
    Marley: Applesauce!
    George: Apple Muffin!
   Lochie: You cut it, put it in the oven, freeze it and when it dings you take it out!


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How can we make apple cake?
Lochie: First we put flour, then mixing, then we put apples, put it in two pans and then put it in the oven!
George: I’m not going to do the eggs.
CC: Crack the [egg] on the bowl and then crack.
Elle: We have to cut the apple!



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Violet concentrates on cutting the apples into tiny enough pieces for baking. 
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The delicious, finished product!
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