December 01st, 2020

Rainey A: Moons and Muffins 

Wow! December already! My how time flies when you’re having fun! Speaking of having fun, we’ve been having plenty of it this week in Rainey Room A! Yesterday, reconnected after the break with a discussion about the moons we saw during our time away. To accompany this discussion, we looked at pictures of the moon taken by Jen, Violet, Elena and Molly. ​

Elena: What do you see in this picture?
All: The moon!
George: A house
CC: Trees
Elena: What does it look like?
George: (after clarifying a couple times) a shell!
Lochie: Um, um it looks like a circle
Marley: Yeah, looks like a shell

Elena: This is a picture that Jen took of the moon, what do you see in this picture?
Lochie: Trees
CC: Moon!
Jack: and a yellow moon, and the sky 
Marley: This is my favorite because it has a rainbow (referring to the gradient in the sky)
Elena: Are the skies all the same (between the photos)?
Lochie: No because because jen looks like the daytime and Violet took it in the nighttime and your mom took it…. In the nighttime?
George: Yeah it’s black, see the black?

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Elena: Do you think this is all the same moon in each picture?
All: No
Elena: You don’t think it’s all the same?
George: Black, black, and black (referring to the three pictures with darker composition skies)
Cc: look, white moon and white moon
Elena: Could these be taken on the same night?
CC: No  it’s not on the same night 
Elena: Why do you say that?
George: Because this is not on night 
CC: That one’s darker, that one’s a little bit lighter and that one’s a little bit lighter 
Elena: So maybe the skies look a little bit different?
CC: yeah, that one is the darkest

Adjacent to our obstacle course, moon and sewing explorations this year, we’ve also enjoyed watching the persimmon plant in the outdoor classroom grow and bloom. When we arrived on Monday, many were ripe for the picking and we happily grabbed three that we could reach!

George: Look, its a tiny pumpkin!
Brigitte: It’s a persimmon!
George: yeah! A perscinnamon!

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We brainstormed for a while about what to do with them and came back to an old favorite: baking! After perusing some cookbooks, we decided muffins would be the best option, so today we enjoyed baking and eating persimmon muffins!

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Stay tuned for the rest of this week’s explorations!