A bit late posting last week’s activity, sorry all! Week 5: Feb 22 – Water and Human Impact / Conservation efforts Activity: Learn + Share: We learned that water is precious, it is shared by all living things and sometimes
In week 2 of 3 studying The Hero’s Journey, the Muons took advantage of the beautiful weather and went for a hike. Erin found a really handy story-starter template, which the Muons worked on in small groups once we found
Quarks started art last week with an outdoor reading of The Mitten String by Jennifer Rosner. In the book, a girl knits a pair of mittens for a deaf mother and her baby when she notices that they sleep with
Today was phase two of our mosaic project: grouting. The thinset had hardened up, and the tiles were (for the most part) stuck in place, so today’s job was filling in the cracks. Everyone got a paper cup full of
This week we used an Urban Water Test Kit from LaMotte. We tested water from the sink in the kitchen and water from the DesPlaines River. There were a number of quick tests we could do. We decided on Oxygen,
In today’s art lesson, we took on an op art drawing, based on this video. I showed them Bridget Riley’s 1961 Movement in Squares, and we discussed its illusion and effect on the viewer. We even widened the scope momentarily
This week we focused on team work, collaboration and creativity. Each group of students had the opportunity to create a 2-d project on paper using varying mediums from crayon to sharpie and paint. There was an opportunity to work on
Autumn is a great time to begin a yearlong tree study. This week the children picked a tree that they can visit and observe regularly. We observed different trees. They adopted a tree to be their very own special tree
We started off discussing what we thought First Nations meant. Which lead to a brief discussion on whether they had grocery stores for food, or home depot for building supplies. To which they whole group emphatically decided that wanted to
Today we took advantage of the lovely weather to work outside on some mosaics. I introduced the idea by showing off some of Chicago-based artist Edgar Miller’s mosaic work. We passed around the dry thinset mortar, and they started positioning
