Show River rocks to be transformed A field trip to Ashley Creek to gather river rocks is the beginning of the unit at Country Meadows thi week The children will be making paperweights paperweights paperweights paper paper- weights with their rocks after carefully examining choosing and cleaning their choice TilE THE SCHOOL will make a arock arock rock tumbler and purchase some gem stones to put in as aswell aswell well as as rocks picked up by the children Then the six week process of tumbling the rocks with different grits of sand to tomake i make them smooth and shiny will commence commence It will be an interesting and informative j project for the children to be beable beable able to experience the various stages of transformation t A vis visit l to the rock exhibit at atthe atthe the Museum l is also scheduled The eagerness of the children to see experience and learn is fun to watch and the quickness at which they learn and the amount of knowledge they retain only goes to emphasize that preschool children may be small but they are definitely not dumb |