Sunday, April 26, 2020

Week of April 27th, 2020

This week's read-aloud is a book called The Dot, by Peter H. Reynolds. It's about a girl who does not want to try drawing in art class. She does not believe she is an artist. With lots of  encouragement from her teacher, she tries creating something very simple. After that first little step she takes, she wants to make more art--and so she finds she actually IS an artist. Sometimes, we just need to take that first, small step towards trying something new, and it can open up a whole new, exciting world for us. 



I found this cool STEM activity you may want to try this week. You just use about 7 twigs/sticks from outside and arrange them in a way where you can hang them and they will twirl. The picture shows them wrapped in yarn for extra color, but you do not need to do that. You will need string or yarn to wrap/tie the sticks together.  If you want to read more details on how to make this mobile, click on the link below.  




Quick Steps to Building This Mobile:

 
Remember: you can just use regular sticks--they don't need to have colored yarn wrapped around them. 


Arrange the sticks the way you want them to hang and tie them together with string. 




Add a rock if you need to, to keep the sticks straight. 

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