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Art: Tissue Paper Flowers

This week I stood in for Stephanie who was unable to attend but had planned a low key activity of making tissue paper flowers. Teenagers are generally fun to interact with, and this group is no exception. They went along

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Art: Papier Mâché Planters

The Quarks worked with papier mâché (aka paper mache) yesterday. Hilariously, Estelle and Amelia each labored over applying one strip of paper to their balloons and declared themselves “done!” Fortunately, Mac enjoyed this project so much that he was happy

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Art: Terra Cotta Roses

Thursday we tried to make terra cotta roses. Some kids chose to freelance. We used brushes for smoothing cracks and metal spheres for a light polish.

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Art/Drama: Bluffaneer and Buildzi

In my quest to challenge and intrigue the Muons I brought two games: Bluffaneer and Buildzi. With Bluffaneer, the kids had to decide if their friends were bluffing or not. The kids had fun guessing their friends’ strategies although……Yes, they

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Art: Building Beaver Dams

We had a group of busy, adorable beavers today, making working dams out of sticks, rocks, mud (playdough), and leaves. The beavers were able to tests their dams and then make adjustments to improve their effectiveness. Ethan shared the verb

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Art: Monograms

This week in art, we talked about monograms and made some of our own.  We used only our first initials and decorated them.  The suggestion was to use overlapping, multi-colored paper strips for decorating.  Some of the kids liked that suggestion,

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Art: Sowing Native Wildflowers

Stephanie and I combined our classes today for an activity of winter sowing native wildflowers. We teamed up one Muon with two quarks to fill containers with soil and seeds and then covered them with saran wrap to help retain

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Art: Playing with Foil

As part of my art classes, I like to try to bring different materials for the kids to create with whenever I can. They always seem to like trying different mediums and it keeps the projects new and interesting for them.

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Art: Winter Bird Feeders

Kristin planned a great lesson for the Quarks, which Chris and I were able to lead with messy but fun success. We headed into the trees to look through the book Snow Birds about various birds in winter and then

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Art: Apples & Bees

We discovered how well we knew each other with a silly game of Apples to Apples!In the game, the cards have words or phrases. One person picks up a green card. Then, all others anonymously submit a red card they

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