Apple Tasting

The 6D students had an apple tasting on Friday afternoon. The students utilized their five senses during the tasting:

• sense of sight to view the skin color of the apples
• sense of smell (some apples smelled especially sweet)
• sense of touch
• sense of hearing (how did the apple sound when we took a bite?)
• sense of taste (this was our favorite!)

Thank you to all parents who contributed apples for our tasting- the class enjoyed this activity!

Bird Feeder

We made bird feeders this week in 6D. We used the following materials:
1) 1 piece of bread
2) assorted cookie cutters
3) bird seed
4) an egg white and paintbrush
5) a pencil
6) ribbon for hanging
We began by cutting a cookie cutter shape into a piece of bread. Once punched through the cutter, we used a pencil to create a hole through the middle. A ribbon was placed through the hole and tied off. We painted egg white onto the top of the bread, and then sprinkled on a bit of bird seed. We made sure to press the bird seed into the bread. We left the bread out for a day- it hardened and the bird seed adhered to the top.
There are many fabulous places you can hang your bird feeder, including a tree in your yard at home. Send me any photos of your bird feeder at your house and I will post them to the blog!

Henri Matisse

We are learning about Henri Matisse in Discovery. He was a french artist who "painted with scissors"! Did he really use paints? NOO! But he did use scissors to create fabulous pictures with lots of color.

Our first step in this project, after learning about Matisse, was to collect leaves. We collected a variety of interesting fall leaves at Molly's Garden, then brought them back to the classroom as inspiration.

Some friends stenciled the leaves before cutting them out, others eyed the shape, and cut out a similar-looking shape out of paper.

Here are the beginning products! We will continue working on our Matisse masterpieces next week!