Michelangelo! (and adding shark teeth and hanging snakes)

We talked briefly about Michelangelo and how he painted the ceiling of a church with Bible story pictures.  Today one of our centers was drawing under the tables, kind of like Michelangelo did.  Each child could draw whatever they liked.  It was fun, but hard (especially the logistics of trying to tape their paper to the bottom of the table).

Per student request, the finished drawings were hung on the real ceiling.  Artwork includes the temple with the ark of the covenant, a tornado, some lilies (that look a lot like the Monet ones we drew last week), an alien...

Another center was this fun adding game I found on another teacher's blog recently.  Roll die for the top teeth, then for the bottom teeth, and then say equation, or "math sentence" as we call it.  Here is 5+6=11

Tying into our Arizona/desert study, we made snakes, which we then hung from the ceiling - I hope they don't set off the alarm!