Day 1
Yoga with Ruxi
I really enjoyed watching the kids do yoga with Ruxi.
I thought I would start out with a 2 part project, a resist painting with rubber cement. First I showed the kids the rubber cement and explained that they would not be able to "see" their drawing until we painted on it the next day, so they needed to think of what they wanted to draw and then do it without seeing it. Lets just say it didn't go as planned, then they discovered the smell of the rubber cement. I started writing down what they said because it was just too funny.
Alaira - I like the smell!
Corbin - Me too!
Violet - I want to smell it everyday.
Damon - I want to look at, it looks ooie gooie.
Sophia - oh I don't like the smell.
Alaira - Its like superglue, if you eat it, it will stick to your tongue.
Corbin - I will put it in my eyes.
Sophia - But you will cry.
Alaira - You won't be able to cry if its in your eyeballs.
Damon - Guys feel it.
Alaira - Its on me - but don't eat it!
Alaira to Corbin - Lets stick our hands together so we will only have one hand and then we will be together forever!
Violet to Damon - Lets do that too!
Here is Sofia's reaction to smelling the rubber cement!
Then we had some outside time. Sofia and Violet took care of the Dinosaurs and were feeding them cookie dough cookies.
Corbin exclaimed at one point "I live on a planet with 2 suns, ya know like Luke!"
Violet showing how she can jump like a frog.
We then headed out to the back 40 of the property to discover a skeleton I had found a few weeks prior. This is another one of those lessons learned parts. I had an idea of what we would do and talk about the bones. But before I could help Andrea get the kids out of the back of the truck and grab my camera they were already bringing us bones. We barely got any photos and I didn't get one of the site either because it was picked clean! They are very efficient when it comes to clean up work!
They were my look out scouts in the back, banging on the truck whenever they thought they saw bones.
Here are some closeups of the bones.
Tinkering - This week Kami discussed Inclined Planes. She had the kids try to pick up a heavy bag and put it on the table, next she had them pick up friends and try and put them on the table. She then had them construct a flat piece of wood with wheels and put down a plank of wood at an incline to show how you can move things more easily with an inclined plane and a simple machine to roll your load up or down hill. Once they got the idea she grouped them up to work on a recycled materials marble run. They could use wooden dowels or tape or whatever they found to hold up the tubes and ramps for their marbles to run.
Day 2
We finished up the rubber cement project by using watercolors over the rubber cement to discover the drawings they had done the day before. The rubber cement was supposed to roll off but it didn't, but they still got the idea of the project. We had playtime in the playroom. And the 2nd art project was sun catchers, some families had brought in leaves from their yard or even some from out of town and we looked at them on the light table to see the patterns and veins. On day 1 we read a book called "Leaf Man", I brought this book back out for them to see how we can make animals or shapes with leaves.
Eddie really liked the pirate outfit and kept adding to it.
Day 3
We did another project with the leaves, they painted the back of their selected leaves with fabric paint and then laid it down on the muslin. Another lesson learned on my part of how its about the process not the final product.
Snippets from the day
End of the day
After the end of school I told the kids I would help them make fairy/magic wands, my mom gave me the idea for this project. When I was trying to leave at the end of the day the horses greeted me and then 2 of the males got a little rowdy in front of me.
