Time

Our week brought us lots of fun and learning as we discussed the artist Salvador Dali and his famous painting called "Melting Clocks".  This was our second venture looking at surrealism.  Salvador Dali had a great imagination.  Sometimes he used his dreams and nightmares as subjects.  He liked to put objects together that were either too small or too big to fit together.    Therefore the viewer would be made to think, which was his goal.  The class chuckled when seeing his long moustache and hearing that he once had a baker on a ship make an eight foot long bread and filled his limousine with cauliflower.

There are views on the blog of our friends molding a clock shape of their own choice using model magic.  Others in the group are painting their clocks.  The last part of the project is the gluing of numbers, also shown here.

The teachers tied in the study of time with this clock theme.  We read books and saw pictures of the different ways to tell time.  Some things included were how a sundial was in use a long time ago, the phases of the moon, a stop watch in particular for sports, Roman numerals on clocks, how night turns into day and more.  Everyone saw Big Ben from London.  Our discussions also centered around how the time in far away places may be opposite from our time.  Our journal topic this week focused on ways to tell time.

Ruby is featured for the letter of the week which was "V".  She did a very good job and is on the blog holding a valentine, a violet colored bear and some fresh vegetables.

Martina celebrated her fifth birthday in class.  It was quite the party.  The decorations on the tables all featured the theme "Frozen" which she loves.  Since pink is her favorite color, the delicious cupcakes had pink frosting on them.  All of us will miss Martina for the rest of the month while she is in Argentina.

You will also observe children at play.  Remember this is their work and how they learn.  There are elastic boards to create designs, play sticks for building, pretty ponies for dramatic play, number match ups to learn to count from eleven to twenty and sewing cards for eye-hand coordination.  As you can see, there is a purpose for every thing we offer here.  That is all of our news this week.  

Watch for an email forwarded from the mandarin teacher.

Rolene and Jackie