Wednesday, November 13, 2013

November 4 to November 8, 2013


How can we move and be stable?
How do connections guide our work?
Co-motion continues this week with great exuberance!  The children pondered and persevered to use tree blocks without glue to emulate Mrs. Lenihan’s class project.  After interviewing her builders, the children have drawn plans to follow.  Next, we will begin to build skills with glue so we may create our own classroom project.  


This is an example of how our surrounding community has inspired us as each day we watched the tree house come together when we went to the drinking fountain.

 Mixing paint continues to blossom as we study this material.  This week the children are noticing the motion of the brush as they are mixing.  Carter noticed how the brush swirled into a circle.  

The city dump has transformed into a large community.  As the children add buildings, they are dictating codes such as each building must be at least one block apart from the next.  

Google Art provided inspiration for moving our bodies in the same way as the statues we were viewing.  This whole body exercise is important to our physical growth and our construction knowledge.  We also glimpsed some great art.  

To test stability in our building, the Citi blocks were built upon the large lazy-Susan.  The children exercised and negotiated some co-mmunity skills as they worked out how long to build before in order to co-ordinate and co-mmunicate before spinning. 

Further connections were made in our clay studies as the children were challenged to get the clay to stand straight up like a body does.  Drawing bones on the clear board reinforced the knowledge about bones and their ability to support in addition to their co-nnecting factor.  This understanding is important to both our clay and block building investigations.