The Navigators spent time getting to know Leonardo da Vinci.
We read wonderful books.
Leonardo was full of ideas.
This book is based on the real life apprentices of Leonardo.
Did they ever really try out his flying machine?
Were they successful?
This book brought to life the time period of the Renaissance.
Set in Florence, Italy, the Navigators envisioned themselves sprouting (or spawning - a popular Minecraft term!) wings and flying with Leonardo. Is it real? Is it unreal? These 6 and 7 years olds sometimes go back and forth between the two as they gain understanding of big concepts.
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We drew pictures of him based on a screen full of various Leonardo portraits.
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Using watercolor pencils, we mixed colors
to match the original Mona Lisa portrait.
We colored and then painted with a wet brush.
We had a separate piece of paper to practice mixing the colors
to find just the right color.
We added darker colors to her face to show shadows.
Lots of colors to choose from
What her t-shirt says is true.
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Leonardo drew and wrote over 22,000 pages of notes.
When he wrote, he wrote backwards.
We practiced writing our names backward.
We each wrote a letter to someone
and then used the mirror image feature on our copy machine.
We had fun reading each others' letters.
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Thinking like Leonardo, we pulled out our sketch books and started sketching everything!
Markers and pencils
Each others' faces
Thinking like Leonardo comes naturally
to these Seabury first-grade students.
He would have fit right in!
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