Saturday, 11 January 2014

Mittens, mittens, everywhere!

Mittens have been popping up all over our classroom. During our discovery time, we designed mittens using pattern blocks.



We made mitten pairs by matching upper and lowercase letters. Then we used the tiny muscles in our hands to squeeze clothes pins to hang them.



We have also been improving our hand strength by using hole punchers to design and create our own sewing cards.



Mrs. Lowe showed us a bunch of different wool mittens and we looked closely and noticed that lots of the mittens had patterns in them.



After looking at lots of examples, we used permanent markers to draw our own mittens. Then we painted them with water colour paints.














What kind of mittens do you wear?



6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those mittens look so warm and cozy. Great patterns on them too. Nice work guys! (Leahs Dad)

2/3 Blog said...

Our class will be reading The Mitten this week. I've are also learning about 2 d shapes. We might do your challenge and make patterned mittens too. Thanks for sharing your learning.
From,
Mrs. Harrison

Anonymous said...

Two little kittens, they lost their mittens. Do you kids know that nursery rhyme? - Danica's Mom

Anonymous said...

Awesome job on the mittens boys and girls! Ethan's mom

Mr. Miller said...

Mrs. Hamm's class is learning with mittens too!

Eva Dowd said...

You made beautiful mittens! We really like your blog. From Linwood Kindergarten (AM)