Leonardo Da Vinci Inspired Inventions
The first graders started the school year off by learning about Leonardo Da Vinci. We learned that he lived about 500 years ago, during a time called the Renaissance. We learned he was called a Renaissance Man because he had many talents including painting, sculpting, inventing, and studying science. In his journals we saw he would draw ideas for inventions and write about them using secretive mirror writing. 1st graders compared Da Vinci's inventions with modern day inventions and then created their own!