Friday, April 22, 2022

4/22/2022

All the Shiny Things!

On Thursday, children continued to work on the Guardian for Shiny Things. The task at hand was to attach the jet pack wings to the body. The children have proven to be great problem solvers in the past and yesterday was no exception.
Giacomo and Nora started by finding a metal piece to keep the wings in place.
Giacomo: The problem with this one is it has metal (on the bottom). (Giacomo find a similar piece) This one doesn’t.
Sylvie: It looks like a giant hole for a key.
Nora, Sylvie and Giacomo hot glue the metal piece but the wings are not bound tightly
Nora: But now the wings move. We want the flat. (She makes a similar gesticulation to earlier.)
Sylvie: If we had something like tape, we could hold the wings.
Giacomo: We have some experience with wire. We could use wire to hold them.
Sylvie: Strong wire so it won’t move.
They choose “steel” wire.
Sylvie: We got steel and now we are putting it through the holes so the wings can’t move.

Nora: The wings need to be like this.

Today's goal was to attach the head. As they came together for this task, the children realized they might need a neck.
Giacomo: What if we added a neck?
   Nora: That’s exactly what I was thinking.
   Giacomo: It needs to be long and fat
Maxon: (showing he group a metal handle) See look! This is too long for a neck
The group plays with different material until they agree on a piece that fits.
     Giacomo: (adding hot glue) We need to get more on the back

Testing a piece for the neck.

And one more thing.....
   Jordan: Now that the head is attached, do we need anything else?
   C.C.: Legs.
   Jordan: The hinge we used to attach the arms is filled so if you want to add legs, we will need a new idea.
   Giacomo: We can add (the handle Maxon found) and wrap wire around it.
   Maxon: That’s good idea Giacomo.

We'll keep you posted!

The Constellation Guardian

Across the room on Thursday, children were creating new shiny items. The wrapped a variety of found materials, such as corks, shells, and small pieces of wood in foil.

Today children worked with wire to attached their shiny pieces to the body of the constellation guardian. Children reflected on their use of the material as they worked.
   Giacomo : Tucker Room has a lot of experience with wire.
   Reed: It (wire) bends. You can use it for no-touch wire.
   Jack: It's bendable. Some of it is hard to bend and some of it is easy to bend. One type of wire can be cut with scissors.
Nora: (Taking stock of all the work being done) This is getting very shiny! (Finding another piece that she want to attach) Treasure!

Reflecting on the need for our guardians...
   Lochie: Are there really bad guys coming to the school?
   Jill: Probably not.
   Lochie: So, this is really sort of just for fun.