During this month's visit from Art Farm, Gabby taught us about turtles and tortoises. We learned that turtles live in the water, whereas tortoises live on land, The first animal we met was Hank the 20 year old box turtle. Box turtles are omnivores with strong beaks. They close up like a box when they are scared or want protection. The next animal was Boris the 30 year old Russian tortoise. Russian tortoises are herbivores that hibernate for nine months out of the year (wouldn't that be nice!) and the females grow bigger than the males. Lastly, we met Curly the red-eared slide turtle. This was the biggest turtle and she is a carnivore.
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The Clouds took a field trip to The People's Improv Theater ("PIT"). The trip started out with the students watching a puppet show that helped to explain what improv is. Improv is when the actors do not plan ahead of time what they are going to say. We also learned that working together and cheering each other on is key! After the video, we met three actors who demonstrated two improv exercises. Then we played different improv games with each of the actors! During one game, called "Kitty Cat Careers," each student had to act out a career... but as a cat! Another game included working as a team to tell a story, but each person could only say one word at a time. Through out the day, the students acted as zombies, 100 year old people, babies, super heroes, "cool teenagers," and robots. The Clouds were so creative and brave! The trip ended with have a group lunch in the restaurant area of the theater. One student shared the following joke and wants it published on our blog: "What do you call a cloud that's feeling sick?" "A cloud that's under the weather." (hahaha!) The Clouds have started a new sport at Asphalt Green, Martial Arts! Many of the Clouds were very excited to start Martial Arts again as they either practice it outside of school or had seen it performed in tv shows and movies. Each month the coaches have a word of the month, this month the word is determination. Throughout warm-up and instruction, the Clouds practice being determined and not giving up. They have learned how to do guard stance, jab- cross punches and front kicks! Maybe they can show you some of their new moves at home (as long as they promise to be safe and not do them to other people :) ) . The Clouds are excited to learn even more self defense moves throughout the rest of the year. The Clouds started off 2017 with a field trip! We visited the Cooper Hewitt museum to learn more about architecture and design. In Art class, the students are studying building design and working to create their own buildings. On this field trip we were able to see designs from all over the country. The Clouds first saw a culticycle. Ask your Cloud if they remember what this is! (answer: it's a combination of a tractor and bicycle that farmers, with a small amount of land, use to plant their seeds.) Then, they observed a model of a building that's being built right now in California. We noticed that it was very small but also detailed! Lastly, the Clouds checked out an awesome, tiny car that was made out of tin and could only fit one driver. This car was a prototype and runs on electricity. After our tour, the Clouds went to a studio in the museum, broke up into teams, and created subway cars from the future! Some of the subways could fly while others had self-cleaning robots on them. The Clouds had a great time on their field trip! |
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