As the students work on using various materials, our discussion moved to how items are fastened together. We talked about tape and glue and thumb tacks and nails and staples. We looked at how alligator clips and paper clips are useful and how blue tac is used in our classroom. The students then got a chance to use a fastener that many of them have not used before, a brad.
We watched a small clip from the movie "Pinocchio" and identified that at the beginning he was a puppet. His joints moved. This was quite a long activity because it involved colouring, cutting, pasting the head onto the body, then having the teacher use the hole punch so that the brads could be
added.
They turned out beautifully and will be making their way home on Friday in the Take Home folders.
In math class, we hung up our 'laundry', and yes! one smart knew exactly what that difficult word meant! Hooray!
The students got a chance to choose to make a t-shirt, a dress or a pair of pants. They chose stickers and used them to create a pattern and then labeled the pattern using alphabet letters.
They were all hung up at the back of the classroom on our shelf.
Using crayons, the students then created a pattern on a pair of socks. We noticed that whatever pattern would be found on one sock, had to be repeated exactly on the other sock.
I do believe they are ready to help with laundry at home now! (tee hee!)
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