All year long, my class collects stuff, a.k.a junk. We collect this stuff with the anticipation of making robots. Late in the year, we have the chapter on 3-dimensional shapes. We teach the kids: cylinder, sphere, rectangular prism, cube, and cone. Try to get 5 year olds to say rectangular prism...kind of like metamorphosis! Parents have been sending in boxes, toilet paper tubes, etc, etc, etc and we finally get to build. I always have some unsuspecting helper on hand and I prepare them with a roll of packing tape and away we go. You can see, that we have lots of fun and no one gets hurt:) The kids love using their imaginations and skills to create the most interesting robot. Some just start heaping junk on and some plan and measure and stew until it all comes together. When we finish, we travel throughout the school speaking of our fancy words and of course leave with robot noises. It's a great way to close out the year!
1 comment:
too cute...wish i could have been there with some packaging tape.
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