This week we talked about how important a foundation is when learning anything. Most of the kids worked on practicing with focus and exposure. A few kids continued working on family portraits for our bulletin board.
Pay Day
We had a lot of fun with our “Life Happens” game today! We learned the basics of tracking our spending and got some practice. Everyone had their first pay day and paid their rent. Some of us had to pay
Native American’s Day
For our first art project of the new session, we talked about Native Americans’ Day which was celebrated Friday, Sept 27 in some parts of the country. We discussed that all tribes are unique with unique cultures, beliefs, and histories.
Portraits
On our first day of Electrons Art, we started an investigation of portraits. We looked into the creative artist Hanoch Piven, a collage artist that creates portraits made of household objects. We created portraits and other artistic creations that were
Photography
Today we looked at two bodies of work by photographer Whitney Bradshaw. http://whitneybradshaw.com/ We also talked about how we would like to proceed with this photography class. Lastly the kids split themselves up into groups to complete the task of
Life Happens
We had a fun first day in Studio Workshop getting our players ready for the “Life Happens” game. We went over game rules, the game board and objective. They learned some basic budgeting tips such as don’t record any money
Journals
We just planned an easy class this week to get back into the co-op routine. We spent some time making journal pages about things we did over the break. We added plastic sleeves to our journals so that we could
Co-op Cup!
The Muons finished selecting games and finalizing the point structure for the “Co-op Cup”. It’s going to be epic!
Mega Poster
This week we started coloring a mega poster together, kids were drawing peacefully while listening to the following stories: “I was So Mad” by Mercer Meyer, “Angela’s Airplane”, “50 Below Zero”, “A Promise is a promise” all by Robert Munsch.
Stick Catapults!
Well…we gave popsicle stick catapults a try. My vision for this class was to give the kids a bunch of rubberbands and popsicle sticks and tell them we would make catapults and see which design shot a pompon the farthest.