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.