We’ve added some great things to our water and sand tables this week. First, I purchased some vinyl rain gutter material and created some tracks for exploration. This little guy discovered he could move four boats at a time if he poured the whole bucket of water behind them!
I also added a tic-tac-toe board to our old green turtle flower planter. A couple of the older children have been playing it each day!
This week we have started our unit about the artist Georgia O’Keefe. After reading a book about the artist and looking at some of her famous paintings, we introduced a work for the children to try creating large flower paintings of their own. Using 9x12 watercolor paper, we used the circle and oval metal insets to trace a large flower. The tracings were done in crayon and colored in. After their designs were complete, they used watercolor paint to do a color wash over their entire painting. The children were very excited to do this work and each child took great care in the design and creation.
Here is our oldest student, RM, hard at work:
Her finished painting:
EH and SS are working together:
Here is the painting completed by SS:
This has become a popular two person work. Here MG and YMG are hard at work:
More finished paintings:
