(Kennedy's nature butterfly)1,500,000 children perished in the Holocaust.
In an effort to remember them
the Holocaust Museum of Houston is collecting
1.5 million hand-made butterflies.
The butterflies will eventually comprise a breath-taking exhibition, currently scheduled for Spring 2012, for all to remember.
Our class worked on this butterfly project today! We first spent some time collecting nature items from around our neighborhood. The items have to be flat so we were a little bit limited with what we could work with-but we've got some great imaginations! We then carefully taped our nature items onto construction paper butterflies. Later we'll laminate all of the butterflies and send them off to Houston! If you are ever in Houston be sure to check out the Holocaust museum and look for your child's artwork!
Today we also found an awesome tree that was dropping big beautiful acorns- different than the acorns in our tree.... We spent quite a bit of time searching for the best acorns, the ones without cracks or dents and of course chose only the acorns that still had their hat on!
Also thank you to Ryder's grandma, she sent us some awesome art paper! We'll definitely use the paper for painting and other projects- it's perfect!
Thank you to Quinn's grandma who found a really great walking stick bug and let Quinn bring it to share with her friends! I don't think I've ever seen one of those in person before- very neat!
Our seasonal table is all decorated for fall. Check out our new acorn collection!
2 comments:
Acorn lessons:
You've got acorns from the red oak family there (either from a red, black or pin oak). The acorns in your yard are from your bur oak trees and are much more similar to white and swamp white oak acorns.
I know because white oak family acorns have longer and "hairier" "hats" than those in the red oak family which have longer bottoms.
I knew you'd know the answer!
haha!
Well, their acorns are much cooler than ours!
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