Your kids have such big ideas! And big talent! One of our activities in our "Big/Small" unit was to make really long drawings on receipt tape. They had fun exploring paper that had unusual physical boundaries. Some did this quickly, and some took as much as half and hour to complete their creation. I hung them on the wall-in hindsight, I wish I had been more careful about hanging them flush to the floor so the kids would have a better idea of the height of their drawing compared to their friends. Nevertheless, it was neat to see them admiring their hard work.
Speaking of hard work-you should have seen them working on ordering balloons from smallest to biggest! Our words of the week were "small" and "big"-and their job was to put balloons in order from smallest to biggest. They really thought hard on this one and ended up successfully putting the balloons in order. What I didn't count on was the balloons moving all over the room as the kids moved...Before this activity even started, we had a little science lesson about air and how the air in our lungs transfers into the balloons. More air breathed out=a bigger balloon. In this activity we covered science, reading, and math. Plus, it was fun!
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| Working hard to put the balloons in order from smallest to biggest |
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| Task complete |
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| Liam and Cadham checking out the tall art |
What neat ideas!! Nicholas will get a kick out of hearing that they worked on sorting algorithms, even in an elementary way! Cool!
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