Skeleton
Harold and his Purple Crayon introduced drawing lines to Monday students in the story by Crocket Johnson. We read Lines That Wiggle by Candace Whitman and The Line by Paula Bossio then watched a video where an artist demonstrated how to draw a portrait using one long line without picking up your pencil even once! […]
Tracking
Snow is a wondrous thing! It can show you how to get to a deer yard when wandering through the woods or let you follow a winding snowshoe hare trail or see where mice have popped up to run around. We read about animals leaving tracks on their way home one winter night and used […]
Celebrations
As winter approaches we learned about the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the whole year, when the reduced amount of sunlight brings colder temperatures and corresponding snowy precipitation. We introduced several winter celebrations where light is an important aspect, including Diwalli, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas. We briefly touched on some traditions […]
Together
Stone soup week finally arrived, a bit late but much anticipated. The children loved washing, peeling, and cutting (all those preparation tasks) their vegetables. They brought onions, carrots, potatoes, celery, green beans, butternut squash, thyme, and broccoli to prepare, some salt and pepper, canned beans, canned tomatoes, and frozen green beans. With Michelle’s magic touch […]