Once upon a time there was a boy and girl who discovered a place in their school that was a wonderful museum of fun, learning, and knowledge a place where they could do things only they could dream about.

My Museum is a magical journey where students are able to explore the world around them. Children get to explore what it’s like to be a surgeon, an explorer, and even enter the world of their own stories.

Best of all, the students built and created these exciting exhibits themselves. Together they set up the basic framework for these interactive learning displays. The students offered their imagination, learning and the kid power working together to make for themselves and Quest Academy a museum built by children for children.

This week we highlight the second graders finishing up their aquatic posters. While the students were drawing their pictures they thinking about what it would be like to be a fish.

How I wish I were a fish!
My day would begin flapping my fins.
I’d make a commotion out in the ocean.
It would be so cool to swim in a school.

Creating my underwater drawing,

Fish rule!

The Pre-School finished up their leaf rubbings to complete our fall unit.

Junior Kindergarten is finishing up their puzzle necklaces working on necklace stands by drizzling and splattering black paint on them.

The Kindergarten didn’t get stuck when they were working on their bug unit making Spider webs and butterflies.

First grade.  Hay! The artisans have been drawing and painting the faces on their horses.

Third grade learned how to do braiding for the edges of their flying carpets.

This week we are highlighting the third grade. The students have been fine-tuning their flying carpets getting them ready to fly. We have been keeping the windows closed and the door shut. I recounted the story of the great King Solomon‘s carpet that was reportedly made of green silk with a golden weft, sixty miles long and sixty miles wide. That’s the distance from Chicago to Aurora. When Solomon sat upon the carpet he was caught up by the wind, and sailed through the air so quickly that he could have breakfast in Damascus and dinner in Media. (That’s like going from Quest Academy to New York City.) The wind followed Solomon’s commands, and ensured the carpet would go to the proper destination. The carpet was shielded from the sun by a canopy of birds.

The Preschoolers branched out and planted there feet on the ground while leaving a good impression on there fall tree project.

Junior kindergarten had everything covered this week by priming and painting there puzzle necklaces.

During the Tarantula down pour last week, to go along with their insect unit the kindergarten class surfed the web learning about spiders and how to make a spider web.

After a week of sanding. The First graders got to stirrup the paint and started painting their horses.

The Second graders under water drawings are looking very soFISHicated. They finished up the drawing part of the project and are now inking them.

Gather round all ye lords and ladies and hear what are young squires have been doing in art class. The first grade class has been drawing, designing and sanding their wooden steeds. They learned the most well known horse of the medieval era of Europe was the destrier, known for carrying knights into battle. However, most knights rode smaller horses known as coursers and rounceys. A common name for a medieval knights horses was charger. My chargers name was Hengroen.

In preschool, the students learned about snails, creating a colorful shell for our terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk friends. They snailed it!

Jr. Kindergarten has been working hard on sanding and assembling their color wheel puzzle necklaces.

In Kindergarten, the students are finishing up their three-dimensional “The me know body knows” self portraits.

Second graders have been exploring the deep, starting their aquatic drawings. They now sea the ocean in a different way.

The Third graders sailed right through the one point perspective section of their flying carpet project and are on to the design.