February 03rd, 2021

What a treat to have a snow day on Monday! We spent time catching up today about all the snowmen we made and movies we watched while away from each other! With snow on the brain, we decided to continue our snowflake silhouettes from yesterday’s Zoom. We noticed on the call yesterday that everyone brought different paper to the camera to use so today, we took the chance to explore papers of different color, width and texture as a class. 

​It’s too hard. (Flattens the paper) It’s like a pizza- Violet

(Finishes her cutting) Let’s open it up- Marley

It’s hard, too hard to cut the paper - CC
(Folding the corners) Look, I made it a mountain - Violet

We also took the time to acknowledge and comment on the shapes we cut out. 

They look like paper airplanes. Hey, lots of paper airplanes!- Lochie

It looks like diamonds! I want to do more. CC

We can fold it and we can unfold it- Lochie
It’s a diamond. It looks like a pumpkin - George

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Speaking of paper, our paper moons and suns came back into the conversation this morning as several friends noticed the way they were moving during our morning meeting. Later Lochie insisted that we "turn off all the lights, even the sunlight to make it dark" to ascertain whether or not our paper suns actually glowed. The verdict was mixed so we will see if we can brainstorm new ways to help our suns shine! 

It looks like 100 moons and 100 suns - George
It looks like a solar eclipse! - Lochie
Look, they're moving! - Jack 
When it was just moons it wasn't moving - Lochie 
I think its because of that (points at vent)- Jack 
Yeah, maybe because of the fan?- Lochie