Another Studio Red Production
For a number of weeks, the children of Studio Red have been creating the characters and setting from The Three Billy Goats Gruff out of lego pieces. A small group of children put these pieces into
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“Are we going all the way to the top?”
On Thursday we took a small group into the museum to examine the work of another Screens artist, Penelope Umbrico. Her piece incorporates various types of electronic displays in an interesting layered installment. With so much
“Nothing made out of wood in this place.”
Continuing to explore the children’s earlier thinking around “trapping” or “keeping the bad in” we brought two more small groups to visit pieces in the museum that bring about the idea of enclosing or keeping in.
Ice
On Thursday morning, Studio Purple was thrilled to discover ice on the back playspace, in every wagon and bucket in sight. The children delighted in it…touching it, chopping it, collecting it, marveling at what it was
Belonging
Belonging: being a member or part of (a particular group, organization, or class) Children are constantly working to gain an understanding of where they belong. They wonder … Am I the biggest in my family? I
Collecting Honey
Food was being prepared for Little Batwing and her animal friends. Quinn invited Margot to help him….’I’m collecting honey, you can help. It has to be yellow, it has to be square and it has to
“We need your help.”
On Monday, we read the book Rabbityness. This is a story about a rabbit who does “rabbity” things, such as hopping and scratching, but he also does “unrabbity” things, such as painting and making music. Doing
The artist within us
During a recent “teachers only” visit to the museum’s current exhibit Screens: Virtual Material we encountered several works of art surprisingly suggestive of some of
“Hey guys, I found an even better playground over here!” Chester
“But in more natural playgrounds, children invented whole sagas that they carried from day to day to day—making and collecting meaning.” Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods “This is our new playground.” “LOOK
“We need one troll and three goats.” Vivian
Our legos have been an exciting tool for telling stories. In the beginning, we observed children creating vehicles and characters, weapons and buildings. We then invited the group to zoom in to tell one story