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Friday, May 26, 2017

 In our art class with Ms. Head this week Bumblebees studied the work of Alexander Calder, the inventor of the mobile and stabile. Students were given beads and wire fishing line and blocks of foam and were encouraged to build mobiles or stabiles of their own. We were quite familiar with mobiles but stabiles were a new idea. Stabiles are like mobiles except instead of hanging they balance from a solid base. We found the engineering piece of finding points of balance to be quite challenging as we tried to make them work within our artistic vision of how we wanted the beads arranged on the wires.