Tuesday, October 11, 2011

First Homework Assignment in First Grade























Anders is doing a unit at school that begins with home and moves outward to town, state, country, and continent. This prompted his first homework assignment ever. With help from a parent he was to build his bedroom in 3-D. Cool! Anna, being the architect that she is, had him draw each plane of his room because she wanted him to observe and document everything that he saw. He really took it to heart, all the way to the smoke detector and the glow in the dark stars. His details are pretty amazing if you look carefully at the drawings. This was followed by measuring the room so they could scale it. Then they brainstormed different ways he could portray the different objects in his room and together they decided what materials to use. Anders took photographs of some of the things in his room, especially the things on his wall. Anna showed Anders how to scale down the photographs in a computer program so they could be used (she is telling me that he did it on the computer himself.) And then the building began...re-creating his bedroom - materials included fabric, wood, cardboard, paper towel, colored paper, cotton balls, photo of things in his room, etc. If you look carefully you can even see him and Kuba in their beds. Pretty wonderful, don't you think? I love my family!

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