Yesterday and today, the children have been prompted to think about structures in a new way. The structures project has been going on all semester and the children are still building away. However, this week the children heard the book called Roberto the Insect Architect by Nina Laden. Afterwards, the children were provided a table and scrap wood so they could work on making a neighborhood or city just like Roberto made.
The children were told that they would first just work on the wood scraps for at least a few days. The teachers want to take photos of the cities they make and use those to help plan together what the city will look like. Once they practice and try different ideas, the city can be glued together and made into a more permanent structure. We imagine that this may be something they work on even when we return in January.
Here are some images of what happened today:
