Arts and Sciences Night - EMMA Classes - Spring 2018

It's that time of year again! The kids have had an amazing term at EMMA classes, continuing their courses from last fall. once again, one of the boys' favorite classes was Art. Their teacher, Ms. Patti, had them using various styles and media to create some very cool pieces.

 

 

 

Emma also loved her art class! She got to do so many awesome things with her class!

 

 

 

Other than their art class, the boys had a geography project where they had to make salt dough maps of a country that they had studied. Ezra chose Italy and Gabriel picked Israel.While I did help them some with the dough portion of the maps, they handled all the painting and labeling.

 

Olivia didn't have an art class this year, but she did have a couple of science classes that had projects for her to put together. She's gotten to be very independent in her work, so these were done with almost no input from us.

Her first one was a presentation on the Appendix. She had to research its function and purpose, plus talk about how it can get infected and interesting stuff like that.

Her other science project was to create a salt water acid battery.

She had to sand one side of a bunch of pennies down to remove the copper coating and expose the zinc.

 While she was doing that, she had to soak cardboard in a solution of salt water and vinegar.

 once all that was done, she stacked the pennies, copper side down with the cardboard between them.

Then when you attach a small LED light to opposite ends of the stack, it lights up! Something about the different metals interacting with the salt, vinegar and water causes an electrical current. So long as the cardboard stayed damp, the light would stay lit.

We really do love EMMA classes and so do the kids! It gives them a chance to learn and do things with kids their age that we might not be able to do at home.