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Today we reviewed what each circle in our Kandinsky Abstract Circle art represented. The very center represents ourselves and each circle after that represents each of the communities we belong to. We then brought the discussion back to our classroom community and talked about what makes this a special place to learn. We realized that we all have an important role in making that happen. We then took our circles from yesterday, that had been cut into fourths, and shared them with each other. We kept the one piece that had the largest portion of the inner circle representing ourselves and shared our other three pieces with our classmates. We put those four pieces together creating a new Abstract Cirlce Art Piece. We will be putting these pieces together to make a community class mural. We studied one of Kandinsky's abstract art pieces that had lots of circles within circles and lots of color. After studying the painting and discussing our noticings we created our own abstract circle art. Each one of the circles is about us and the communities we belong to. The inner circle is ourselves, the next circle is our family, the next is our classroom, the next is our school, and the last one represents Missoula. Some kiddos had enough room to add a circle for Montana, then the US, then the world. We used primary colors, plus white, to mix and create the colors we wanted for each of the circles. They turned out amazing. We will be taking these circles to the next level tomorrow!
Today we studied the abstract artist, Wasily Kandinsky. Kandinsky is known to have created abstract art. He wanted people to look at this type of art and notice how it made them feel instead of just seeing objects. We studied many of his abstract paintings and we noticed all the colors, shapes, and different kinds of lines. We learned the math concepts intersecting, parallel, and perpendicular lines. After looking closely at the art and discussing our noticings we gave abstract art a try. We turned on some Jazz music and got right on it. It was a very peaceful and enjoyable afternoon. Check out our artists at work. Today we had a visit from the District Art Teacher, Ms. Mitchel. We made fish bowls after weaving paper together to get our background for our piece. This afternoon we had a little extra time in our Inquiry Learning Centers. Since I am finally done with report card assessments I was able to pull kiddos for a writing lesson. The soap carving center has been a hit. Not only are they experimenting with different techniques, using problem solving skills, and showing their creativity not to mention their stamina (one of our friends worked at this center the entire time), they are having fun. Miss N made a die and Mr. J made a car. We also had other friends make a basket, a boat, a flower, and much more. Miss A spent most of her center time today in the cafe. She took nearly everyone's order, created their order, and delivered it with the tray perfectly balanced in her hand. Check out this order... All "GO Foods"! We were excited to see that a very clean and tidy leprechaun, that doesn't play mean tricks on people, visited our classroom when we were at home. He left a trail of leprechaun dust, left his hat (we are wondering if by accident), and wrote us a note. The note told us to have a great day and that when we make good choices our days are magical. We read a story about an old women being tricked out of her gold by a leprechaun. We played a game where we hid a gold coin with one of our friends while one person was the old lady hiding around the corner. The little old lady had three guesses to see who was hiding the gold. After recess I pulled out a bunch of shamrocks of different sizes that were lettered A-J. I asked them what they thought we could do with them. I was amazed at all the different and wonderful ideas they had. One idea was to put them all together in a shape of a large shamrock, another was to use them as paper to write a nice letter to a friend, and another was to order them from smallest to largest. These are only three ideas out of many that they had. I was so proud of their creativity and imagination. We did end up ordering them from what looked like smallest to largest. Then I introduced the idea of the math terms, area and estimate. We chose one shamrock and I asked them to guess or "estimate" how many cubes it would take to fill up the shamrock. We took note of all the estimates. We had from 10-110 as our estimates. Then we actually filled up the shamrock, counted the cubes, and compared the actual area, 55 cubes, with their estimates and discussed our findings. Phew! So much math in such a fun, hands-on, inquiry based learning experience. This afternoon we began our new Inquiry Learning Centers. Some are repeated centers with newly added elements, and some are completely new. And thanks to Mr. L and his family we had an amazing feast of greens today. For snack we had green shamrock shaped tortilla chips with guacamole, green grapes and kiwi fruit skewers, and a green juice smoothie drink. They also sent in chocolate gold coins that I didn't get a chance to pass out. They will bring them home tomorrow. Thank you, thank you!
We started off the day learning about Irish Dance. We watched adult professional Irish Dancers and discussed how their role in the community is to bring dance to their audience as well as expose them to the Irish culture. Then we watched a group of young kiddos performing for a Senior Living Home and talked about how they helped their community by sharing their dancing with others. Lastly, we got up and watched a video that taught us the Irish Step Dance. After practicing in the classroom we walked down to the gym and gave it a try. They were naturals! This afternoon we read the folktale, "Mother Nature's Gift". After Mother Nature sent the sun and the rain to the opposite ends of the earth for fighting with one another they realized how much they really needed each other. As a gift to sun and rain for learning this lesson she gave earth a gift. This gift only appears when the two work together to nourish the land... the rainbow. We did an art project using brand new water colors. We sure were excited to see the new paints! We headed out a few minutes early to recess and ate our snack on the big hill. Hooray, they got to play with the new parachutes today. They were donated by the Smoke Jumper Center! We walked back to the class barefoot from gym. Nothing like a happy bunch of children littering the hall!!!
"Never give up, Encourage Others, Do Your Best" We had an assembly today where we learned how to be a champion! The best way to explain the NED assembly today is that it was a motivational speech to encourage kiddos to be the best they can be and to be a champion to themselves and others. The speaker was captivating and told a motivational story using a yo-yo as a prop. It was an amazing assembly that left us feeling good inside and empowered to be principled! We will be selling yo-yo's to kiddos next week. The kiddos can play with the yo-yo's at school during recess as long as they are appropriate with them. The proceeds from the yo-yo's will pay for the same assembly at the next school... Sort of like a pay it forward deal. This is how this "free" assembly was brought to LC. Pretty cool! We also had our last parent visit today. Mr. Cherubini shared with us his role as a surgery technician. Miss L got to dress up in surgery attire and perform surgery on Miss M. At the end, Mr. Cherubini gave everyone their very own mask and cap. We were very excited! |
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