This week, we learned all about Frida Kahlo’s life, art and style. We read Frida Kahlo by Mary Nihn. And then, we made our own Frida-inspired pumpkins. The kids transformed into Jr. Florists as they put together their own bouquets
We began this week’s session with a warm-up: I’d printed out the facades of various buildings, and taped them to the bottom of a sheet of tracing paper. The group traced over them in as much detail as they could
This summary is for the past two sessions. Group Exploring: We brought out our clay bag with the wet towel still wrapped around it from last week. We explored the flexibility of the clay by grabbing chunks of clay and
We tackled that many-headed monster, spelling in English, by reviewing the three main languages that shape English (Latin, Anglo-Saxon (Old English), and French (Middle English). To make the discussion more interesting, we talked through the conquests that brought each language
For the harvest theme this week, the Neutrons warmed up performing different activities of (pretend) harvesting: Picking apples and pears from high trees (walking on tip toes, stretching overhead), lifting very heavy large pumpkins (squat, raising up slowly against isometric
This week the theme was harvest. Since this course is the last course of the day, I have the benefit of them already having discussed a lot of the things prior to my class. We discussed what we thought harvesting
We began our first class with a review of the Scientific Method, focusing on using prior knowledge and research to make an educated hypothesis. We learned about pH/the power of hydrogen, and discussed a few attributes of acids vs bases
For our first week of combined Electrons-Muons gym, Jessica and I set the stage with the kids for how we would like to organize gym this year. Each week we will have 2 options: a competitive game and a non-competitive
We kicked off our A and P with the introduction of directional terms. These terms help to describe where body parts are in relationship to each other. The wrist is distal to the elbow for example. The muons were assigned
We started class with warm up exercises moving our bodies in various forms : “as big as we can be” and “as small as we can be”. The kids then shared shapes they can make with their bodies, then we
