Wayne Thiebaud Cakes

I had this image hanging on the board this week and we have been discussing patterns, lines and shapes that we see....
They picked up the markers on their own and began to make cakes!

More Ephemeral Art Exploration.....

Beach Art in November......

We have been looking at work by Andy Goldsworthy lately. I think it inspired our beach day today....

Ephemeral Fall Art!

Spiders!

We have been talking about spiders quite a bit lately and looking at many different spider books

Here are some drawings that came out of our group discussion on shapes and lines of spiders....

A Study of Sunflowers

In my 3s and 4s class we have been looking at Van Gogh's sunflowers closer and took some time to work on drawing our own....

More Rainy Day Science Magic

Ice Fishing!

First get a piece of string wet in a glass filled 4" hight with water. Next, put the wet string on the ice cube, sprinkle salt on the ice cube. Hold the string on the ice cube for 20 seconds. Then, lift the string! The salt helps lower the water's freezing point!

 First make a lump of playdough in the middle of a plate and put a candle in the center. Next, pour water around the lump of playdough. Light the candle and place a glass over the top of the candle. The candle will slowly go out and the water will get sucked up the side of the glass!

All of these experiments came from the book
"Magic Tricks with Science" by Samantha Bell