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Each year we have some parent volunteers come into the classroom to teach the students about a particular artist. Back in my day we called them the "picture ladies." We call it AVIC. This year we had the lovely M & Ms come to teach us.  Our first artist was Norman Rockwell. We learned how Rockwell used realism to show everyday life. He worked for the Saturday Evening Post and the Boy Scouts. He created a beautiful series called the Freedoms. He even painted a Cubs game! The students brought in props to wear and then they illustrated each other as they would appear on the cover of the Post.
The next artist we studied was Leonardo DaVinci: the famous inventor, scientist, and artist. We watched a couple videos on his life and his most famous work, the Mona Lisa. We used little adjustable figures to create an action drawing.  First we played with Fibonacci and Sunflowers, then we played with Sierpinski and Candy Corn. We have been talking about patterns in math. The Fibonacci sequence is a pattern that takes the first two numbers and adds them 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,etc. We looked at how this shows up in nature. In sunflowers, in broccoli, in a leaf, in just about anything. We then talked about more patterns, especially that of Sierpinski's Triangle. We talked about math fractals and looked at different examples. Then...we built some using candy corn. The results were pretty impressive! Cool thinkers! Fall is a great time for some cool STEM pumpkin science! We took some time to look at some pumpkins a different way. The first experiment we did was measuring some pumpkins in an unusual way. We measured the height of pumpkins using non-standard methods. We used erasers, yarn, blocks, marbles, etc. to see how high the pumpkins were. We then recorded our information using the website, NextLesson. It was a great way to record our data using tech. Our next experiment was predicting and observing traits of pumpkins. We looked at the weight, circumference, price per pound, number of lines, number of seeds, and whether a pumpkin would float or not (it will!) Mr. Renardo lent us a welcome hand (thanks--you are awesome!)            |
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June 2020
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