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Weekly Summary: Felt Masks – Electrons and Neutrons – Art

Weekly Summary: Felt Masks – Electrons and Neutrons – Art

This past week in Art, we focused on felt as our material of the day. We used cereal-box cardboard to create a template for Mardi-Gras style masks. The kids then covered the base template with felt and other decorations to

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Weekly Summary: Neutron and Electron Art

Weekly Summary: Neutron and Electron Art

This week in art for both Neutrons and Electrons, we finished up our compositions that work with negative space as both the foreground focal point and as the background.  Everybody’s projects turned out wonderful! Some students had a little extra

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Gym: National Take a Hike Day

Yesterday was National Take a Hike Day, so we took full advantage and enjoyed a hike with each class. Electrons and Neutrons hiked to the place we have a mutual understanding is named Nature’s Playground. You likely know the spot

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Writing Workshop: Libraries vs. Museums

We spent the time listening to this episode of Smash Boom Best, a lively debate show. We all made notes as we listened, and paused it frequently so we could discuss the proceedings. We talked about debate and persuasion in general, hopefully in

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Gym: Power Words & Team Challenges

Please forgive me for not sending a gym recap sooner. Here’s the gist of what we’ve been up to so far this season. We started with a power word running activity the first official day of co-op to focus our

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Art: Wax Resist Painting

Today’s art class for Neutrons, Electrons, and Quarks focused on wax resist painting with watercolors. We used Spirals by Louise Bourgeois as our inspiration and attempted to execute a similar technique. We used tape to create a grid (or other negative space)

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STEM: Box Observations

Both Neutrons and Electrons started this co-op session with a two week unit on making observations and conclusions. Each group made a large list of observation words / adjectives and then made observations of each of 10 boxes. Then, given

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Gym: Relays and Climbing

Neutrons, Electrons, and Muons led our warm-ups today and enjoyed a running and mirror activity. They then competed in relays with pool noodles between their feet. Lots and lots of laughs! Quarks enjoyed their climbing spot together. It’s so fascinating

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Writing Workshop: Final Drafts!

It was so fun listening to and celebrating all the final drafts today! The kids worked really hard on writing throughout this co-op year & I am very proud of all of them! Thanks also to the parents for all

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Art: Isometric 3D Drawings

Today in art, Neutrons and Electrons worked on drawing 3D structures using isometric paper (if you wish to print a few pieces of the paper, a template is here).  We talked about using the grid lines to help give the appropriate

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