A Busy Start to 2019!

To begin the month of January, we will immerse the children in the multidisciplinary study BLANKETS AND QUILTS.  We will look at blankets, quilts and afghans.  During the long, cold winter months these items are a necessity in New England.  We will assign a date to each student to bring in and share their special quilt, blanket or afghan.  Please see calendar below with your child’s date to share their special item.

Please tell your child not to talk with their classmates about their special item because we will be playing a guessing game to see what we can find out before the unveiling! After we play the 20 questions game and the special item is revealed the student then asks a classmate to help with measuring their special item. We will be figuring out the length, width and area of these items using rods and kindergartners as units of measurement. Students will be working in a cooperative groups creating paper quilts for each other.

So far we have looked at Lindsay's baby quilt (Mrs. Parnell's daughter), Mrs. Kearney's blanket and Sean's afghan. We compared the three items and estimated how much bigger the the blanket was. So far the students have been doing a great job with their mathematical thinking.

We also had our first session of quilt making! On Friday morning we created the first 6 quilts. By the end of the month all students in Room 101 will have an individual quilt that was made cooperatively by the students in Room 101. So far we were very impressed with how well all the students worked together to create these special items. The students earned 10 scoops of popcorn because they rose to the expectations and the quilts are BEAUTIFUL!