I was so glad that this group was interested in rocks and crystals! My group last year was also into them and we had just started investigating when our school buildings were locked up and we were thrown into teaching through a computer in a pandemic. Well, this year, these kids have been showing me rocks all year and wondering about them so I brought out my huge rock, mineral and crystal collection again. I am a total rock geek and have collected them all my life! I showed them some during our whole group meeting and told them the memories that went with each one. Every rock I had told a story of someplace that I went and the people I shared the experience with. So many math and science standards were used and practiced as they explored! We build math vocabulary by practicing our learning standard of comparing sizes and noticing which were taller/shorter, longer/shorted, and heavier/lighter. We also sorted by attribute. Here they sorted by color, but they also sorted by size and type. They put them in groups that were similar such as crystals, geodes, lava rocks, fossils, etc. They also sorted by texture such as rough/smooth. It took them a while to figure out what salt is! A friend looked at it through a microscope and declared they looked like crystals! We investigated further by using the iPad and found out salt is a crystal and a mineral. They thought it was weird that we put crystals on our food! This group was very fascinated with the geodes so I put some agate out for them to explore and inspire some art! They loved putting the salt on the watercolors! Some were interested in volcanoes so I set up an area for them to create stories and investigate volcanoes through some books. Some kids had a rock collection but many did not so we decided to start one by making some scribble rocks! Their favorite part was washing and scrubbing the rocks they found in the dirt on our playground. They used acrylic paints to paint designs on them. Because of their love of geodes, I ordered some small ones on Amazon for them. We took them outside and each friend got to break their geode open with a hammer! Every geode was filled with crystals inside! During this inquiry, they had collected a few rocks. We kept them in a bag and at the end of the inquiry, talked about the memories/stories that these rocks had! The painted rock would remind them of their kindergarten friends who painted the rocks together. The fool’s gold would remind them of when the leprechaun visited out class room and mixed everything up, then left us the fools gold in our traps! The rose quarts would remind them of me, their kindergarten teacher, and the geode they would remember the experience of breaking them open on the playground with a hammer and the joy of finding the crystals inside! Now they all have a rock collection started that they can add to as they make more memories! I only get a group once in a while full of rock hounds so I’m always very excited when it happens! This was a very fun investigation! Next, we investigate the sky....stay tuned!
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Mineral Admiration is a new series of watercolor paintings by Vienna-based artist and illustrator Karina Eibatova. The juxtaposition of using a water-based medium to create images of stone is in line with Eibatova’s desire to only create images from nature, an exploration that has lead to dozens of publications in magazines, newspapers, and journals around the world. These new paintings are available as prints in her online shop. More
Minerals Alphabet - Watercolor Illustration An illustration of 26 minerals painted in watercolor and labeled in handwritten text. A mineral for each letter of the alphabet! Minerals featured are: Azurite, Beryl (green variety aka Emerald), Copper, Dolomite, Erythrite, Fluorite, Garnet, Hauyne, Ice, Jadeite, Kyanite, Limonite, Magnetite, Nepheline, Olivine, Pyrite, Quartz (purple variety aka Amethyst), Rhodonite, Serpentine, Turquoise, Uraninite, Vauxite, Wardite, Xenotime, Yarrowite, Zircon - Fine Art Print - Hand signed and dated - Printed on museum quality etching rag paper - Optional Mat is white, acid-free, and mounted with archival tape - Frame not included Size and framing notes - 11x14" and larger prints are shipped in a tube and may be shipped separately from other items in your order. - Prints have an additional white border (size refers to image size). The prints fit into a standard mat window for that size. If you are buying an unmatted print and would like it cut to exact size (to go in a frame with no mat) let me know in the checkout notes and I can trim it for you.
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A 3" x 4" hand painted color card for exacting selection of James Alexander Limewash Paint colors. Choose color swatches from both the 2023 James Alexander Color Collection and the Light & Airy Collection. More about James Alexander Limewash Paints Lime mineral paint is known for its almost unearthly luminescent quality that is achieved while maintaining a nearly dead-flat finish. It is the calcite crystals that form in authentic curing limewash that refract light and produce a beautiful visual glow. Want to learn more about this mineral paint? Please see our FAQ Page. Add beautiful color, depth, and dimension to your walls with this ready-to-use paint. Please remember that digitally displayed colors vary by screen and brightness settings and are representative only.
A 3" x 4" hand painted color card for exacting selection of James Alexander Limewash Paint colors. Choose color swatches from both the 2023 James Alexander Color Collection and the Light & Airy Collection. More about James Alexander Limewash Paints Lime mineral paint is known for its almost unearthly luminescent quality that is achieved while maintaining a nearly dead-flat finish. It is the calcite crystals that form in authentic curing limewash that refract light and produce a beautiful visual glow. Want to learn more about this mineral paint? Please see our FAQ Page. Add beautiful color, depth, and dimension to your walls with this ready-to-use paint. Please remember that digitally displayed colors vary by screen and brightness settings and are representative only.
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