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.