Capture the light

We passed by the chapel on our way to the commons and wondered what it might look like from the inside. So, with clipboards in hand, we headed back on a beautiful sunny afternoon. We sat outside for a moment and studied the stained glass doors and then stepped inside. We turned our shoes different colors by stepping into the colors on the floor.

Learning with Beautiful Stuff

After two weeks of collecting, it was finally Bag Opening Day!

We gathered at the tables, gave each child his or her bag and then began emptying the bags onto the table. Before this point, we had class meetings to talk about the Beautiful Stuff becoming part of our classroom and that, at least for a little while, the treasures would stay at school rather than be glued together and taken home.
As we sifted through the treasures, we began talking about how to organize it all. The children at Kim’s table thought it should be sorted by the way it felt (soft, squishy and hard). The children at Amanda’s and Catherine’s tables decided to sort by color.
When the ‘soft, squishy, hard’ containers became too full and overflowed, they decided to try sorting by color also.

After we finished mixing our food colors to make ALL the colors in the rainbow, several of them wanted to paint using the colors we created.


Scientists and artists in the same day...just as it should be!

Somewhere between making making pumpkin bread, visiting Michelle's class for worktime and getting a wonderful visit from Ellery's pumpkin growing 'paw-paw', Amanda got the call from the girls. It was time to bowl. So, the "Sweet Biscuit and the Muffins" bowling team hopped into their imaginary car and zoomed off the the bowling alley (aka the cubbies). High-fives all around--each roll was a strike!