January 12th, 2021

Silhouettes and Shadows 

How wonderful it is to be back at school again! While we all had relaxing breaks, we think Lochie said it best when he told us  “I was so tired of being home!”. We’re all excited to swap our slippers for sneakers and get back to our explorations!

Yesterday, we spent time sharing our moon journals. Elle’s first page featured a mixed media design with gems that came from her birthday crown. 
​“Those are moon rocks and that  is the moon in the middle, right there!”

Jack’s moon journal took on different styles of documentation after the first few nights.

"This one is a crescent moon and then the next night it’s clouds because it was cloudy. On the last page these are flowers, I drew a lot of beautiful flowers” ​.

​Among all the catching up and shared moon observations, today we finally had a chance to enjoy the paper silhouettes from our zoom parent night! With much excitement each of the children pulled their parents’ contributions from the pile and showed the group.

When we took the silhouettes downstairs to the projector, the real magic began. After some initial trial and error about how and where to use the silhouettes on the projector, the children began to create beautiful and imaginative stories, integrating each of the pieces.

That’s my boat! And look, there’s a butterfly flying over! This is a pretty picture - Lochie
Now there’s a dragonfly coming in the way - CC
Now the dolphin, it's supposed to right in the side - Elle
Put this one [the french fry] on, you can add one here - George 

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​That's my face, my mom’s face!! - Lochie
Can you see me? - Elle 

​Look up in the ceiling, look at my octopus! The tentacles are all over the wall! - Jack 

The shadow exploration gradually became a shadow show with children rotating between audience members and narrators. 

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Once upon a time there was a hippo and he was looking for his friends and then… - CC
And then these are the friends - George 
They came over and he said “I was looking for you” and then a seal came over and swimmed, and then the french fries ate the rocketship. Then the car drove to the rocketship and ate the rocket-ship and the dog - CC
Theeee end- George

Thank you so much to all those who contributed to our silhouette collection! We can't wait to see where this exploration takes us!