Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Tools

Tools
The Kindergarten has confessed that part of their motivation to build the Ferris wheel is the intrigue of the wood shop and working along side of Pippin. There are many tools and trying to figure out how each one works is part of the fun. 





It is similar to a segment from This Old House on PBS. The children guess what the use for tool the might be and then perhaps even demonstrate how it might work. Sometimes they are close to being accurate but other times they realize that they are holding the tool upside down or banging it when they should be slowly screwing. 


The children work with Pippin to bring their designs to life. They are the architects and the carpenters for the Ferris wheel. They have learned that there are times to hammer and times to glue. They have used both a drill and a clamp and made circles using a band saw. 


The fun is in the process of creating and designing. 
Although there is a sweet taste of satisfaction giving the  Ferris wheel a spin after three months of planning, collaborating, sketching, building, discussing and problem solving. 





3 comments:

  1. Mary, What strikes me about this glimpse is that I live on the other side of the Kindergarten wall...I see you and Mary and the children coming and going throughout the day...I frequently, in quiet hours in the building, visit your room and soak in the stories that the walls tell....and yet there is SO MUCH happening in Kindergarten that I learn about through these blogs! What you and Mary ( and Anna and Pippin) and the children have taken on and accomplished is nothing short of extraordinary. I am grateful to be witness - physically and digitally - to the world of our Kindergarten

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  2. Mary, i know that the fascination with tools in our own home is alive and well. I frequently find my girls either hammering in an errant nail, or involved in some sewing project using the machine. I love that the Kindergarteners had this experience with Pippin and the workshop. I hope that we will be able to give our children at Sabot an increased exploration of tools of all kinds. Thank you for another inspiring year!

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  3. Thanks for sharing this experience. Happy to see that how children are taking interest.
    Tool Venture

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