Paula's Dad, 'Pop-Pop Mickey' visited with our class today to share his love and interest in art and sculpture. Pop-Pop Mickey sculpts and creates art using marble and stone. He brought all types of tools that he uses to sculpt and demonstrated how he shapes and carves stone into shapes. He said that, " all of his ideas for art start in his mind. He gets an idea first and then tries to figure out how to turn the stone into the shape or idea he has." Pop-Pop Mickey showed us the drawing tools that he uses to sketch his ideas onto the stone. We then set up a table at Choice Time for the children to try to use all the tools on small pieces of marble.
We are working on a new Science project that was inspired by questions our children had about seeds and apples. The children were inquiring about the number of seeds that are in apples and were curious about whether all apples have the same number of seeds. After buying the apples at the Acme earlier this week we sorted the apples and then began our experiment. The children made predictions about the number of seeds and graphed their predictions. They then counted the seeds and glued them to small pieces of paper. We look forward to comparing and working on this project over the next few days. The children loved tasting and comparing the apples as they worked in small groups on this experiment.
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