oh, what a week it was!
one of our projects was crumpling a piece of newsprint (from the local newspaper) and having a teacher put a piece of masking tape around the top to create the volcano’s “opening.”
then more tape was used to adhere it to a piece of matboard.
then we used our finger muscles to tear tiny strips of lava.
then glue made that lava stick!
not in the plans…but perfect.
and when limbo was over, the tape was added to the teacher chair.
seldom do i set up a project that is so lame that we don’t continue on. don’t get me wrong, almost every project evolves once the children get going with it. what i have in my lesson plans is almost never exactly what we end up doing.
this project was supposed to provide pages and pages of wood-stamped “nuts.”
but the wood pieces didn’t hold much wood for printing or rolling, the paint wasn’t a warm brown-more of a greenish gray, the paper kept tearing. i abandoned it almost immediately.
truly a process-only experience.
did you know that colored paper dividers that your middle school daughter thought she needed and then didn’t are fun to cut and make colored images on the screen when put on an overhead projector?
good times.
one overhead projector on the ground behind a curtain we use to hide the church folding chairs makes shadows.
during “l is for light” week, this was perfect.
let me tell you, it was exciting.
when we bring out the legos, it makes sense to me that keeping them in tubs or on shelves isn’t practical.
especially when there is a certain blue piece with a curvy edge that has to be found.
so this year i set out a couple of area rugs and called them “legoland.” this is where we kept the legos.
when it was time to clean up at the end of the week and going outside to run and scream was really what we were ready for, tossing the legos in was a great compromise.
quite simple and using several media, we made pretty plates.
rick rack, lace, crayons, glitter and paper hearts.
the lace and rick rack pushed and pulled through the holes.
learning how to tie a knot.
getting excited about p-p-p-pink and p-p-p-purp-p-p-ple (p sounds).
adding layers of glitter.
using them to sing our alphabet song
(we sang “p is for pretty plate” instead of “p is for peanut” like our alphabet card shows)
oh my, they are pretty.
