Bookfair

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HarMar Barnes and Noble

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August 2

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Bookfair 〰️ HarMar Barnes and Noble 〰️ August 2 〰️

Bookfair

Get to know our community and school! Our bookfair will feature presentations by teachers, authors, and friends of the forest, demonstrating the kind of education we offer students at Oak Forest Academy. Stop by our activity tables for hands on discovery: found nature photography, student made puzzles, Montessori math, and more!

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This code is good at any Barnes and Noble, including online, from August 2 through August 8.

  • A Show and Tell featuring the beautiful and unusual instruments of “Unprofitable Instruments”

  • Mary Jo Hoffman speaks of “72 Micro-seasons of the North,” her observations of the daily rhythms of nature.

  • Stop by for amazing activities: Photography of found nature, Montessori math materials, light and optics, student woodworking puzzles and projects, author signings, and more.

  • Steve Hoffman, speaks of the sense of place he has developed by living deeply in Shoreview and in France.

  • Kate McWilliams of “Unprofitable Instruments” shares the ancestors of the modern violin: the rebec, the vielle, the Renaissance violin, the Baroque violin, and the modern violin.

  • Tabitha Buehler reveals the physics behind a popular optical illusion trick.

  • Kate McWilliams of “Unprofitable Instruments” introduces the trumpet marine and the monochord, demonstrating the relationship between length and pitch, and sharing the “unearthly” stringed instrument that sounds like a trumpet!

  • Kate McWilliams of “Unprofitable Instruments” discusses her processes recreating medieval musical instruments.

  • Dr. Tabitha Buehler discusses the types of information that light brings us from objects in space.