December is a time for giving back to our community. This month, the students tied fleece blankets to donate to Project Linus. Project Linus is a non-profit organization that gives sick children in our local hospitals blankets to take home. It was a good project for the younger students to learn how to tie knots - the first step to tying shoes. We made a total of 37 blankets of all sizes!
The end result was a lovely bow-tie or hair bow for our Kinders and 1st graders. The older kids got to make bows and flowers. Would I do it again? Not willingly! The duct tape is really difficult to work with - very unforgiving. We ended up doing most of the work for our younger students and they just sat and watched. I didn't find this to be a meaningful, learning experience for those children. The older kids had more freedoms - definitely a project for 3rd grade and up!
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Ginna HillI'm the librarian at Fern Bluff Elementary. We're piloting a Maker Space in the library this year. Maker Spaces, STEAM labs and fab labs are popping up in schools across the country. Maker Spaces provide hands-on, creative ways to encourage students to design, experiment, build and invent as they deeply engage in science, engineering and tinkering.I'm going to share what works and what doesn't. Archives
May 2017
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