How clothes are made...

This week, Mademoiselle Sasaki showed the students a short documentary on how wool and cotton are made.

Enthralled by the process of shearing sheep to make woolen garments.

Centres this week built on the knowledge that students took away from these documentaries and discussions at the carpet.  At one centre, students experimented with plastic needles and thread.

At another they practiced weaving with felt...

At the math centre, students created pictographs to illustrate their understanding that certain clothing items are made from either leather, wool, or cotton.

At the listening centre they heard a story about a sheep who gives his wool to make a sweater, mittens, a scarf and a tuque. Students demonstrated their learning by participating in a sequencing exercise to retell the story.

Mademoiselle Sasaki also wowed the students by bringing in a ball of yarn with a scarf that she had knitted from it. The students were very impressed by it. She then passed around magnifying glasses so that the students could examine the scarf to see how the threads of yarn had become the scarf. Later in the week, the magnifying glasses were used to check out the weave in cotton fabrics and many students made the connection between the pattern they saw in the weave and the weaving activity in which they had participated.

We are very sad to say goodbye to Mlle Sasaki. We wish her all the very best with her studies and hope that she will come and visit us from time to time. Here she is receiving a card that the children made for her and giving them gifts of stickers...

Below are some other photos of the work the students have produced this week...

November 25 was Clairlea's Movember celebration day. I didn't have much luck growing a moustache so I made this one and one of my lovely students immortalized the moment with a photo!