Last week in atelier we used paints, tagboard, and scissors to create our own plant puzzles. Today we got to play with our puzzles. We figured out how to put together our own puzzle and then we tried our friends’ puzzles. 

Our afternoon schedule has changed and now half of the class visits the atelier to work on a guided art/science project while the other half the class enjoys reading book boxes and library books in the classroom.  The following day the groups switch. Last week the ELC community decided to use the empty garden plot (photographed below) to plant a rainbow garden. Today for our art and science activity we began planning our rainbow garden. We read a story called Planting a Rainbow.  Then we used magnifying glasses to examine plants in a variety of colors. After examining our plants we each painted a realistic picture of the plant that we would like to add to our community rainbow garden. Tomorrow the other half of the class will examine and paint plants. Then on Wednesday we will actually plant our community rainbow garden.

View more photos from today in our May 17-21 Photo Gallery