This week we listened to Giving Thanks A Native American Good Morning Message (https://youtu.be/PE2YHTSQVgY, if you’d also like to listen.) We introduced the Three Sisters Garden and then made creations with pumpkin, bean, and corn seeds.
Art: Clay Projects
On Thursday we got our hands into clay! We started off by rolling out a slab, made a print, and gave it shape. The kids also started additional projects with their own unique ideas ranging from a relief flower, to dice,
Art: Foam Creations
This week was a mish mosh of various creations! The prepared activity was to use paper-weaving to decorate animals cut from foam. Googly eyes, feathers, markers, and other tools were also available for decorating the animals. In both the Neutrons and
Art: Migration Silhouette Pictures
In keeping with our migration theme we created migration silhouette pictures. They glued a black landscape onto a white paper, watercolor painted the sky (there were beautiful, rainbow, colorful skies!) and finally glued on a variety of migrating animals (polar
Art/Drama: Charade Cards
Today, we began with another outside game of charades but this time we used already made cards. The kids had fun acting out the whole stack of cards. We then went inside and began to sketch and to consider what clay
Art/Drama: Squirrel’s Family Tree
Today we read Squirrel’s Family Tree which talks about squirrels’ preparation for fall and the interconnectedness between oak trees and squirrels. Then we designed acorn framed ‘stained glass’ windows with leaves, crumpled tissue paper and the most exciting part, grated crayons
Art/Drama: Charades
We started off writing a “person,” “place,” or “thing,” on little papers. Some asked if they could, and then did, write some totally different. We then put them in a box and played a form of charades! The kids were
Art: Model Airplanes
This week we made model airplanes to commemorate National Aviation Month and because, well, making airplanes is always fun! Two model types were available – craft stick planes and cardboard planes. Hot glue was used to connect the pieces and
Art/Drama: Bloody Murder
We gathered ideas to make a list of the projects we wanted to accomplish this session. We did some free drawing with some googling for references. The Muons flexed their individuality as well as influencing each other’s drawing inspirations. We then
Science/Math: Paper Bag Monsters
We started art this week with a reading of Room on the Broom. Several of the Quarks asked to read it again right away! We then went inside to make paper bag monsters. The Quarks used foil, pipe cleaners, washi