Have you ever seen the world in a new perspective, one where art can pull you in? The Global Art class can help understand what it was like living back in time to see what different cultures made as their art.

Room G41 has examples of that. They are the Global Art class, and the y are learning about different cultures and their art. Ms. Stacie Lakatos is the teacher of that wonderful class where fourth and fifth graders learn a lot about the world.

On Tuesday she told me that the kids made a batik. They put wax on the fabric,then they lay the fabric in dye.

They made wonderful mosaics on Tuesday using glue and glass tiles on paper.

Cortney Stotsenburh said, “I really like this class and am excited for the rest of the week.”

Emily Newcomer was just buzzing with excitement about the class. She said that she enjoyed the class because “it is creative and artsy.”

Then Alex Knauth told me that he also liked the class a lot and that he had never taken the class before.

Ruby Lockbridge, who was really excited about CFK, said, “Yes, I am having fun at CFK; I like Global Art because we learn a lot, and everything we learn is really interesting.”

When asked how long she had been at CFK, Lakatos replied, “I have been teaching Global Art for four years. I also taught a class called ‘Beads Around the World’ and a class about Ancient Egypt.”

When asked what countries the Global Art class would be studying this year, she answered, “We will be learning about Java, Italy, Australia, Japan, and the Ivory Coast.” When asked if she had any events planned for Friday, she replied that they would be finishing up their projects.

After the interview was over, the class agreed that the Global Art class was a hit.

Do you like SLIME? If not, there are plenty of other things to do in Mr. Bob Collins’ class of inventions.

Collins, the teacher of the Young Inventors Class for the first time this year, is keeping the fifth through eighth grade students pretty busy. On Monday they had an egg, cup, string, name labels, a mini car, two straws, and a clothes pin. With those materials they did an experiment.

They taped the cup to the mini car. They put the egg in the cup and ran it into the wall three times. If the egg survived the wall three times, the car was dropped off the counter.

The early class had three winners. In the second class one group of two won. Not only did they use the wall and the counter, but they also dropped the car off the counter twice.

Then Mr. Collins made them all slime on Tuesday, which was a hit.

On Wednesday they made air powered rockets.

When asked if there were any special events planned for Friday, Collins said that they would be making butter and ice cream.

Noah Caldwell-Glatesos said that his favorite part of the week was making the slime, and Ryan Lablanc agreed. Becky Carothers disagreed, saying that her favorite part was the smashing eggs part.

Brendon McNutt favored the air powered rockets. The students all agreed that the Young Inventors class was fun.