Kindergarten-The children are finishing their paper quilt blocks after learning about the ladies of Gees Bend, AL. They have also been learning about Eric Carle in their classroom. Mrs. Beyer followed up with a lesson about him and they will be working on an activity in the art room using painted tissue paper like Eric Carle uses. This is called cross curricular learning when teachers support each other's lessons as the children learn about a particular subject matter, in this case, Eric Carle.
First Grade- The children have finished their puppets and the excitement in the art room could be heard and felt! Not only were the children excited to be finished but they began to play with each other using their puppets. They turned out so well and some of children were so creative. Their artwork always surprises me! What a fun project! Each class with take an inventory of the puppets they made and write a puppet play featuring their puppets!
Second Grade- The children are in process of making their Bembe' masks using red, ceramic, clay. While I'm firing their masks they will watch a video showing what I do with their masks from the time they hand them to me cold and wet until I return their masks to them as a piece of ceramic clay. They find this video wonderfully interesting. After making this video I had a new respect for Martha Stewart!
Third Grade-The children are still weaving! Many of them have past the half way point. I think a couple of children may finish their pouches this week. Then they'll begin to finish like crazy!
Fourth Grade- Ron Burns is the topic of the week. The children are learning several things with this lesson. They are learning how to enlarge an image by using a graphing technique. There's math involved with getting their graph drawn out to enlarge the pictures they are drawing from. After graphing their papers they will begin copying one of Ron Burns' cats and dogs square by square. It is a week of proportion and measuring. They'll work very hard to duplicate their image.
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