One day in class the children found the box of paint samples, and began to cut and glue them on paper. We started to do math problems. We added up the amount of squares they put on the paper, or the sum of the different colors.
The next day the children wanted to continue this project, but this time instead of gluing the paint samples on paper, they glued them on tiles. The outcome was so beautiful, that the teachers sat down with the children to decide how we could hang the tiles so that everyone could see both sides of them.
The children drew different plans for how we should hang the tiles.............
We decided to go with one of the plans, and the children worked together to create what turned out to be a beautiful mobile!
When it was done they told us exactly where to hang it!
Soooo pretty, isn't it???
Of course we didn't stop there! So, next we each drew our own plan for a mobile and started working!
This time, we had a better understanding of planning and measuring. Notice how our new plans have numbers to represent how many inches we wanted our string and wire to be. We also used different colors to show if the line represented wire or string. Doing this plan for our mobiles helped us practice....
- measuring inches on a ruler
- reading words like "string", "wire", "hot", "glue"
- writing our numbers 1 - 15
- understanding the importance of planning before executing ;0)
Once we cut our string and wire, we put our mobiles together!
Look at our mobiles!
They are now hanging in our room!
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