Create a Country - part 2

Thank you to everyone for coming in and celebrating the work of our children. They were all so excited to share their completed maps. After the dust settled and we were sharing our thoughts about the open house many of the students commented that their favorite part was visiting the other classrooms and seeing their projects! Two months ago they were afraid to venture across the kiva into the "big kids" classrooms. Time to open up the doors and begin mixing and mingling a bit more. Hope the maps that went home via school bus made it in one piece.

Create a Country

I learned so many things today . . . how to successfully have 19 children mixing flour, salt, and water all at the same time and then use the mixture to have their 3-D thinking brought to life as well as how to enlist the help of 19 little people to clean up said mess! What a day. The children were incredibly cooperative and helped each other out happily and in ways that I wouldn't have thought possible. I was able to grab the Flip camera about 1/2 way through the morning and capture a few moments. Tomorrow we move on to part 2 of the project . . . paint! Wish us luck.

Evening Star Quilt Block Patterns

The children did an amazing job creating Evening Star Quilt Block patterns for our November calendar. After a lesson in rotating and flipping shapes they set out with squares, triangles, and very specific directions pertaining to color patterns. We were all amazed at how well everyone did and how fantastic our calendar looks as each day passes.