Thursday, January 5, 2017

CONSTRUCTION ZONE-Creative Expression

We are exploring construction this month in preparation for our "Animals in Winter" unit in February.  Children are engaging in extended planned cooperative role-play with peers.  

Our class is thankful to Mr. Spencer for donating these lovely blueprints for us to use.  

Children are using eye-hand coordination to manipulate small objects and larger ones.

We've been categorizing groups such as tools.  Thank you Mrs. May for the super cool and real-looking power tools!

Golf tees and mallets for hammers and nails.  The foam is recycled from the computer lab (packaging for the new computers) and they work well as blocks and for hammer time.

A friend using a saw.

Drills, jigsaws and nuts and bolts offer children an opportunity to experience a true workshop!

This picture was taken a few weeks ago in our blocks area, but I thought the buildings were quite spectacular as they offered dinosaurs protection from a near-by volcano.
This child looks like he knows what he's doing!

How to get that piece of wood in there, that is the question.

Working together to get it done!

Comparing the tape measures.

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