NOT A BOX

At the Construction centre we decided to replace the traditional building blocks with boxes of all various shapes, and sizes to see how the children would engage with these materials. We also added some reading materials about shapes.

Initially...

 

The students explored with the boxes by dumping them on the ground

 and then searching for the "right" type of boxes for their creations.

 

 

The students then started to see what they could build with these boxes:

 

They started stacking...

 

 

and built a ROCKETSHIP!

 

We read a story to the class to provoke their thinking...

 

Using this book and others available to them, students began delving deeper into their design process

 

 

Here the students are building the tall building featured in the above book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playdough and Shapes

Playdough has returned to our classroom and the children are very excited! Along with traditional playdough toys such as rolling pins, 2 dimensional attribute blocks were also made available for the children to use. Here is an example below of how a student used the shapes in combination with the the playdough.

This student used her hands and the rolling pin to roll out the playdough and then the cutter to cut pieces of dough to place on the attribute blocks to make "SHAPE CAKES"