BEFORE PRINTING
AFTER PRINTING
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Fifth grade students just completed creating their self portraits from clay. Students rolled out a sphere of clay to create a slab. Students added details to their self portriat using coils. Their self portrait was fired in the kiln after it dried completely. Students were able to glaze their self portraits many unique colors to reflect themselves! Be on the look out, students are taking them home this week.
Monday, March 01, 2010
Kindergartners were inspired to create African Kufi Hats after reading The Hatseller and the Monkeys, a West African folktale retold and written by Baba Wague Diakite. The book is about a hat peddler, whose colorful hats are ransacked by monkeys while taking a nap. The hat peddler has to do many things to get his hats back from the monkeys and learns an important lesson while doing so! My students loved this book, and believed that there were monkeys on our school roof waiting to get their colorful Kufi hats!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Friday, February 05, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Wilson Bentley (1865-1931) was a farmer who did pioneering work in photomicrography. In 1885, Bentley became the first person to photograph a single snowflake, and went on to capture over 5,000 snowflake images during his lifetime (without finding two that were the same).
In 1931, Bentley, who became known as "the Snowflake Man," published over 2,000 images in his unprecedented book, "Snow Crystals."
"Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated. When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind,"
In 1931, Bentley, who became known as "the Snowflake Man," published over 2,000 images in his unprecedented book, "Snow Crystals."
"Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated. When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind,"
Bentley said of his work.
I hope everyone was able to play in the snow last Friday!
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