Brooklyn Bridge Park

September 26 was a beautiful day for art and city watching.

Tess: We went on a field trip today. We went to Brooklyn. We walked a lot. We went to see these sculptures that were a part of the Statue of Liberty. We sketched. We listened to the sounds around us. We sketched what was around us including the sculpture.

Ava: We went to the park. We saw a sculpture. Then we went to a grass park and we played around in the grass. Some people played tag and some people sat and talked and some people did gymnastics.

Alon: “We had fun all.”

Simon: “The sleeve had poles. It was really bumpy like an actual sleeve.”

Charlie: “You could feel the grooves in the indented lines of the sleeve.”

Diego: “There were a lot of beams inside. On the outside you saw two but if you looked inside the sleeve, you saw lots of beams. The beams were holding it together so it wouldn’t cave in.”

Clarissa: “All of the shadows were all going in one direction.”

Diego: “We found a lot of giant acorns – they looked like grapes.”

Ally: “The sleeve was a little ragged.It was light and dark.”

Zoe: “After we sketched we got to play in this grassy field which was very fun. I went crazy doing cartwheels.”

Tess: We played tag and no one caught me.

Pema: “On the sleeve it was pointy and then it went down and then it went straight.”

Andrei: “The sun shined onto the copper sleeve making a shadowy figure behind it.”

Estelle: ”There were parts the Statue of Liberty. This artist made a replica of parts of the Statue of Liberty. They weren’t parts taken off of the Statue of Liberty. We saw a dead run-over rat.”

Mia: “They were as big as the stature. They were twice as tall as us and they were gigantic.”

Julia: “There was a bird named Foodini on the piling where we were having snack. He ate saltines.”

Maeve: “On the way back we all had fun. It was a really really long walk. It was a really steep hill that we all had to walk up and most of us were annoyed by that. Finally, we got on the subway and we sat for a while. We went on the street and passed the dead rat and finally we made it into our classroom. We all had a fun today.”