with more learning from the very hungry caterpillar we made butterflies. the paper used represented all the foods eaten in the book (the yellow for swiss cheese even had holes in it). the children used precut butterfly papers and glued the food papers on, trimming as they liked. at the end we layered circles likeContinue reading “b is for (a very) beautiful butterfly”
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b is for box car children
they weren’t so much the box car children, but children making box cars and box trucks and box trains, etc. with old snack boxes, stickers, tape, tickets, crayons, scissors (though tearing works as well sometimes), paper fasteners pencils and glue, they made more transportation! some knew they wanted “smoke stuff” to come out of thatContinue reading “b is for box car children”
f is for float your boat
during our t is for transportation week, we looked at our world map. i would suggest two countries and ask how we could travel from one to the other. let me tell you now that these children BELIEVE they COULD build a bridge across the ocean. they BELIEVE that there are strong enough materials toContinue reading “f is for float your boat”
t is for transportation
oh, how i wish model magic was more affordable! since it isn’t, our friday class was the group to sculpt transportation. we named the colors, counted together as i cut them apart (since that couldn’t be done ahead of time in fear of it hardening), then gave each child a plate of pieces. there wereContinue reading “t is for transportation”
s is for skyscraper
masking tape strips on our unit blocks encouraged tower building. i turned one of our mirrors over to give a hard cement-colored surface. we collected cartons and boxes for making our own skyscrapers. it looked like christmas eve watching ms. vilia wrap all the cartons with manila paper. then the children cut and glued windowsContinue reading “s is for skyscraper”
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