KD Builds

We are a class of builders this year. Every child loves to build in our class, girls and boys alike. While it might look like they are just playing, they are actually learning a ton about 2D and 3D shapes, balance, symmetry, storytelling, and communicating with others etc..

Oh, and following the rules. Here are the building centre rules the students came up with (read by FM):

We are lucky to have our school district's lending library send us new building materials every month. Here's some things we've built over the past few months:

Magnetos (a magnetic building toy)

Working Together

NH and RL found the magnetic blocks would stick to the radiator. They made a shelf for the balls.

Lincoln Logs

DD made the letter B

KD's airport with airplanes

Megablocks

KL and LP's castle

RM and KD made an elaborate castle with a village inside

The dice are the people

Other materials

NH exploring the cube shape

KL and LP make structures out of wooden sticks and modeling clay

"I made a blue, blue house. Then I had a car in there and a suitcase and two chargers and two Ipads," F.M.

KL and LP used pattern blocks to make furniture for the stuffed rabbit. A bed, toilet, and dresser.

Even numbers can be used to build!

KD made homes for animals using wooden blocks, cotton balls, and rocks.

NH's tower of wooden blocks

For the month of March, I challenged everyone to not only build structures, but to draw and write about them as well. After a while, we had enough drawings to create a class book.

The Castle "Hanging on the Castle is a bird house. At the top is stop" by LP

by AV

by RM

by KB

TY and SA decided to make the longest line of blocks they could. It was a challenge to draw!

Here's the finished product:

"Tower World"

What will we build next?