What a wonderful week in the Ward Hobbs classroom! Absolutely wonderful. Here’s a glimpse :
Observational Drawing:
Observational Drawing helps us to slow down and really observe the subject. Look at the detailed drawings. Need I say more?
Which inspired even more drawing!
To further celebrate nature’s bounty I harvested apples from my home tree and BJ collected crab apples from the trees in the front of the school and together we made apple butter with the children!
The recipe is simple: lots of apples, sugar to taste, cinnamon, cloves, lemon juice, a dash of salt and some water. Cook long and slow in the crock pot, whisk it smooth and serve! Yum!!!
Stay tuned next week to see what else we get up to!
Beets grown in our garden formed the inspiration for this week’s observational drawing.
Observational Drawing helps us to slow down and really observe the subject. Look at the detailed drawings. Need I say more?
We had so much fun with first round of beet drawings that decided to pick another one. We were astonished by its size!
Which inspired even more drawing!
To further celebrate nature’s bounty I harvested apples from my home tree and BJ collected crab apples from the trees in the front of the school and together we made apple butter with the children!
The recipe is simple: lots of apples, sugar to taste, cinnamon, cloves, lemon juice, a dash of salt and some water. Cook long and slow in the crock pot, whisk it smooth and serve! Yum!!!
Dramatic Play:
We brought in some wonderful wooden airports with ramps and pulleys for the children of Ward Hobbs to use.Thier travel play is a joy to watch and their conversations are connecting nicely with the classrooms geography materials. (Notes on play at home…Encourage your child to enjoy play for its own sake. They needn’t look to you for affirmation about the joy of an activity. Play, by definition, is a reward in and of itself. Redirect them back to their own joyful barometer whenever possible with observations rather than praise… “I see you have lined up all your cars. That took a lot of work. How do YOU feel about that?” .)
What do you do when there’s no people to populate your airport? Make your own!!! (Hint: that’s why I removed the people😉)
XP Corner:
What do you do when there’s no people to populate your airport? Make your own!!! (Hint: that’s why I removed the people😉)
XP Corner:
To extend the XP story writing project, the children and I thought about what matters most to them before using the language of drawing to communicate our ideas on paper. Our observational drawings earlier in the week helped us to slow down and really focus on communicating, in line and color, what we love. Here are a few examples:
Stay tuned next week to see what else we get up to!
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