Today we talked about how science and math intersect in art… Two students play stringed instruments and one sings. We talked about how counting beats for notes is math and the vibration of strings and vocal chords is physics. We
Nature Study: When Winter Comes
The Neutrons and I talked about animals they might see on a local nature walk and about what happens to these animals during the wintertime. We discussed migration, hibernation, and adaptation, and evaluated how each of the animals we listed
Gym: Push-ups in the Cold!
We survived the cold! Many thanks to Vicki for sharing and rounding up extra gloves for us. Today we worked on push-ups, practicing them on a wall first to work on form, tempo, and breath, then inclined on the two
Writing Workshop: Genre Tour
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Gym: Movement & Mushrooms
We really lucked out with the weather and had a great time enjoying really fun activities! Alison brought some great supplies to help us set up games for our Quarks. We started with ABC’s of Movement with bean bags led
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
Writing Workshop: Dialogue
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Psychology: Child Observation Record (COR)
Today, the Muons conducted the short demonstration observation of young child behavior, that Alicia described so nicely in her last email (I will include some of the information again here too as a reference). The class started with a re-cap, expansion, and
Gym: Exercise Circuit
The rain didn’t stop us from having fun getting our exercise outside. We started with a bean bag warm-up activity (with challenges based on the alphabet)/ this was followed by a circuit that included partner stations like jump squat stairs,
Math/Science: Migration
Migration was our subject today. They voted on animals they wanted to learn more about. Then we read parts of “Migration: Incredible Animal Journeys” by Mike Unwin. After each excerpt we read, we acted out how those animals migrate, traveling