Angry Birds Update: catapults

The children's block play has progressed from the pendelums to catapults.  They have began to create their own catapults and exploring trajectory with them.  We are having them use pompoms and other soft items (the rockets are erasers) for safety.  We will be exploring catapults more in the next few weeks.



Black History Month: Romere Bearden

We studied the collage work of Romere Bearden for Black History Month. We visited several websites to look at his work. We read the book Uptown by Brian Collier, which has collage illustrations about Harlem. Each child selected scrapbook paper as a background for his/her collage. We used facial parts cut from magazines to make a person, then we added objects to finish our collage.

Angry Birds and the arts

The kids were wanting to be the birds and pigs so for one small group, we made masks. They choose whether they were going to be a bird or pig. We looked at pictures of the pigs and birds and they decided what colors they needed for their masks. Below are the kids wearing their masks!

We also made sculptures of the pig houses with recycled materials.

 

Here are the final products!

Here are the sculptures the kids made with recycled materials.

Notice the bottle cap 'helmet' on the pig!