Maker Monday

 What started as a simple question last week has now become a new part of our learning space!  It went something like this...

"Today is "Think About it Thursday". Ms N

"If today is Think About it Thursday, and we have Tapping Tuesday, Walking Wednesday, and Forest Friday, what is Monday?" CF

"Wow!  That is a great question."   "Is it like....Make it Monday?" CF

And the answer is...absolutely yes!  Your teachers put their brains together and it absolutely IS Make it Monday.  It will evolve with the interests of the children as all of our spaces do.  Today the children were asked the broad and open question....

What can you MAKE with these materials?

"I'm making a robot.  The wheels go all directions." CF

"Look what I made!  Look what I made!" AS

"It's a birthday cake." JB

Aww, you are thinking of your friend AS  It is his birthday today!

Happy Birthday AS!

CF you stayed at the makerspace for the entire morning adding, changing, rebuilding, and testing out your creation.  

"Look at these.  I need more of these ones." MS

MS you noticed which pieces fit best together and you were searching our materials to create something new.

Today at our makerspace it was all about exploration of new materials.  The children were eager to get their hands on new pieces and see what those pieces can do and become.

There were some specific creations made, but overall what was MADE today was an introduction and a spark for our new theme.

We are so thankful for our focus on following the leads of the children, and for the relationships that we have fostered in our space that allow such conversations to be heard and valued.

So, here's to Maker Monday!

Of course there was other learning going on as well.  We focused in our our color work again today but this time with a different medium

How can you paint playdough?

We brought out our patterned rolling pins and they gave us great ideas!

We can paint right inside those lines!

"Look what happens when I twist it up.  I make my colors disappear." MT

"It's a pattern.  The colors go over and over again." MT

CW you made colors on your playdough and your friends said it looked like tye-dye!

With all of the color creating and mixing we have done today we wondered how we might make sense of all of our colors.  We have a LOT of blue.  But, what do you notice when you look at them?

"Its darker, darker, darker."

"It's different, different, different." 

"This is white and this is blue"

"You start here and then go here, here, here."

These are all things we heard as the children explored the colors they had created.

What do you notice?

What is your brain thinking?

What are your eyes seeing?

Expanding our learning and pushing our thinking to the next level was our goal today.  

Happy Maker Monday!  Today we made....

creations

colors

connections

memories

fun!