Cave art installation in upper grade classroom

We have completed our cave art installation in the upper grade classroom:

Our "cave walls" are made of long strips of butcher paper dyed with a mixture of pulverized Greek coffee and warm water in baby pools.

After experimentation with tea, other coffees, and mud, we found this combination to be by far the most successful. Our initial "blends" were too weak, leaving the long strips of paper hardly darkened at all; but with the Greek stuff, we not only get the proper color, the grounds leave a gritty residue on the paper which gives it a rough, textured effect.

The drawings themselves were made with art charcoal and our own homemade pigments made of various combinations of pulverized rock, blackberries, mud, and other natural materials gathered at our Winters field site. Our artistic inspiration comes from the Paleolithic cave paitnings of Chauvet Cave and Lascaux Cave in France. We used the following books by prehistorian Jean Clottes as inspiration: Cave Art, Chauvet Cave: the Art of Earliest Times, and Return to Chauvet Cave.

Here are some examples:

Reindeer. Inspired by Chauvet.

Howling at the moon. Original.

Large Black Stag. Inspired by Lascaux.

Treasure hunt narrative. Original.

--Chris

happy and me 2

I said to myself two times, you know how a mans best friend is a dog? Well like I said last time I had one.  But this YEAR he is coming back but to visit. "Will he stay any longer or hes gone?" I asked. My mom said that a friend is a friend if he is gone then  he s in your heart.  "No one has ever been so nice but him, happy is his name."

Mom can musa stop "well he will not stop hitting me.said musa and me.

well my brother musa he is not nice he made happy go away in staid of petting he hits hem.said ayize. 

My mom said that  he can come and visit. but my dad said "I do not know about that.said ayize and dad

"well we could do a cat by that I men getting a cat not a cat ."
ok I said to a cat, but how can a mans best friend be a cat?
get a pet my mom said that if you what to get a best friend." my dear son my mom said are you going to keep talking about happy.

"no I will not but he s  not here well he can come and visit." he is

"yes you love him so much you  cant stop talking about him he s going to visit.


"my thing I do now is not thinking of happy but talking to my ne
w cat I said to the cat do you think a dog is a cool object or animal
.Bed time mom said lights out...... ....."my cat  is cool he likes to be the boss and he so kind and sweet.what.what am I doing happy is the target her not the cat well you could say that the cat is the target but my man is happy.christmis is comeing   and I want to get a new controller so my brother can play to Ihave this shooting game that is 4 players and I can harm him in the game.Video game anyway  not going to talk about that mom said that we might get happy back that guy I do not know his name he said he cant car for him.

my dear happy hes gone for ever but my mom said that some times you can love some one that you don't have now here at my home.like I said do you know how a man beast Friend  is a dog well I had one.

Bill the Bo-Bo Brained By Ayize Gwebu

Bill the Bo-Bo Brained

By Ayize Gwebu

 One day not so long there was a guy name Bill. He did not know what stuff was - some stuff he was able to understand like if he could see a car he would say "it's a Toyota!"  But it was a Ferrari. He was a funny guy.

One day he met a guy named Macky and he said "Well, my mom said meet a guy like you."
"You like my grandma," Said Bill.
"What do you mean by that" said Macky.
"Nothing" bill said with a smile on  his face.
"Well what is your name?"
"My name is Macky..."
Bill had to stop talking...then he said "Do you know who Jim is?"
Macky said "Why yes...you are my brother!"
"Well yes I have been waiting for you to say that. 5 years later, well say that is where we will go if we know."
"Ahh ha we found it!" screamed Macky.
"What are we finding?" said bill.
"I do not know what but something. You guard the door"
 "Ok."
And then the true nature of Bill came out.  5 years the brothers had been waiting to reunite and it was all wiped away.

Bill:  "aaaaaaaaahh who are you?"
"This is not a game!" Macky pleaded.
"I know it is not, who the hell are you?"

As you can see bill was not like anyone. 

The End.

Bull Battles by peregrinerocks on Storybird

COMEDYNESS!

 "Hi Vaca," Ayize said.

Vaca sniffed.

"You know you are a cute bunny! You are not like a radio active spider! I wish you could talk, you could tell me all about your life!"

Then a magical genie of genieness appeared. "I will grant you 3 wishes," he said.

Unfortunately the genie had very bad Eyesight and hearing.

"I want..." ayize started.
Then Garnet came in singing, "TO BE A PATATO!"

"Ok," the genie said, and turned ayize into a patato! "Sorry I have to go to my best friend, Cato's, bachelor party. The genie vanished.

Then Vaca grabbed a gun,"Die Potato," she said, and shot the potato. Just then a chorus happend to pass by on a nearbye bus singing, "Good shot Vaca!"!

Erin came in," Hi ayize" "Hi," Ayize said. "So," Erin started,"For math today we will be studying the art of jogging." "How does the art of jogging have to do with math!" "It does just THINK OF CATOS BATCHLOR PARTY, YOU KNOW HE'S MARRYING EFFIE!"

"WHAT," AYIZE SAID! "THAT DOESN'T HAVE ANY THING TO DO WITH IT!"

"YES IT DOES!" ERIN SAID, and the world melted away.

Just then Ayize appeared in leafpools den. "What I'm in warrior world, This is crazy!"

"Hello," said leafpool.

"Oh no you must have the potato infection, here eat this chewed pulp." "Ok, I love half chewed pulp! he said, and ate it.

"I think you should visit starclan, now that your human again." And he went. Once there he ran into Bluestar. "Hey Your the crazy one!" "Get away from me!" She schreeched and chased him away.

   Suddenly he was in a dark forest, and ran into tiger star. " Hi omg! Your the shiny poker guy!" "Die!" Tigerstar screeched, and shredded him.

"Great move!" Ivypaw exclaimed!

There once was a 6 year old girl named Lucy. She was sitting on a bench in her back yard. A bear was coming out a forest (the town was next to the forest). Her house was where the bear was going. The bear entered her backyard. So, she got her rope gun and tied up the bear and that reminded her of a joke:

There was an explorer in the forest and a bear attacked him. When the bear started to kill him, he prayed to God to turn the bear into a Christian. The bear knelt down and told God, "Being a Christian is exactly what I wanted." The bear said, "I will sacrifice myself for this young Jesus."

After Lucy put the bear in the forest, she went into a bar and started singing and moved everyone to tears.

A grandma was at the bar, and she hated God. She decided to blow up a barrel of wine. She put GTNB (which stands for Grandma Time Nitrogen Bomb. A ton of tiny idiots came running out of the barrel.

After that, Lucy entered a farting contest. She ate so many beans beforehand , she farted her way to another galaxy. There she met a drunk alien. The alien gave her some alcohol and she said "danke shein." She broke wind all the way back.

When she got back, she was at her Grandma's. Therefore, the Grandma's windpipe was having a hurricane in it. All they could eat was cereal and cheese. She hired 100 or so servants to cook for her.

One of the servants said to her: "I'm leaving."

Grandma said, "Me too." The Grandma and the servant lived happily ever after. Except she yelled, "I'm going to prison!"

Lucy downloaded 1,000,00 songs on the Grandma's computer. Then, she went to a BBQ. Helmut was there; he was involved with the fruit salad. Some where ells in town the grandma ARMY was stopping. The flow of Duncan Doodleheimer's to the Gold Rush Bar Wars and King Tut.

Lucy joined a fart race race into space and won a big fart medal and turned seven. Seven is the age you start snoring.

The Whale Song: "Waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhrrrrrr! Waaaaaaahhhhhhrrrrr! Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrr! Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhrrr! Snort! Snort! Snort! Snort! Waaahhhr! Waaahhhhhhhrrrrrrr! Snort, snort, snort, snort, snort! Wheeee-waahhhhhhhrrrrr! Weeeeeewaaaarrrrhhhh! Waaaahhhhrrrrrr! Waaaahhhhrrrrr! Waaahhhr!"

--Alex

THE FAMOUS PILL

THE FAMOUS PILL 

Announcer:

The famous pill! Everything you'll never need!

(Shows Britney Spears)

Fame, fortune, papparazzi, sunglasses, and so many plastic surgeries you can't smile! IT'S EVERYONE'S DREAM!

(shows pill - hairy, black, and the size of a wiffle ball)

Plus, it comes in an easy to swallow and only slightly larger than shown size!

(Music comes on)

(Side effects may include: hysteria, insanity, homicidal tendencies, suicidal thoughts, bleeding, depression, waste of money, or death. But you don't care!)

Becca Wittman