We started the month with the snowflakes which had to be folded in a certain way to achieve the desired result- a simple 3 fold process. Last week we moved on to a slightly complicated fold creating a 3 dimensional paper object. Our idea grew out of a desire to have the kids [...]
Entries from December 2007
December 15, 2007
snow in the air
With a little help from another VIP and my 8th grade afternoon assistant Samira, we got the snowflakes laminated, cut and strung (about 60). Penny and I took them into the classroom after school and hung them all over the desks with monofilament. This photo doesn’t do it justice (took it with my iphone [...]
December 4, 2007
snow day
Here in So Cal we don’t get snow days so we decided to have one of our own making on this Monday in the 4th grade classroom.
We started out by looking over and talking about some of the landscapes that were painted last week as well as the painting project from the week before. [...]
