Hello all! We read a book today that talked about making leprechaun traps and the kids were really excited about them! So...we got on YouTube and found some great videos of kids that made their traps at home and recorded them for their teachers. We decided as a group that it would be really fun to make these and watch the videos at school. So here is the plan, if you are interested!!
We are going to draw our plans for our trap here at school tomorrow. We will start collecting some decorations that you can add to your trap. I will send the plans and decorations home with your kinder on Tuesday.
We need you, as a family, to build the trap. Find any supplies you have lying around at home. If you need some inspiration, here are some different videos we watched that gave us motivation to start this project.
When you get done building your trap, please try and record them explaining how the trap will catch the leprechaun, what you used to make it, and how excited your kinder was to do the project. You can record this with an iPad or Smartphone. Then email the video clip to me and we will watch it when we return to school on Monday, March 21st! Here is a great example of another trap and how the student introduced it on the video.
Please don't worry about buying anything elaborate for this project, you can accomplish building a trap with different supplies you have at home (most that you usually throw away). These type of projects get kids thinking and creating, problem solving and collaborating. There are all skills they need to be successful in life, and we need to create opportunities for them to use and practice these important skills. These are the types of projects we like to create when we visit the MakerSpace, or have the MakerSpace supplies brought to our room. If you have any priceless treasures such as toilet paper or paper towel rolls, boxes, foil, ribbon, scrapbook paper, art supplies, etc that you think would be good for our MakerSpace and you are looking to donate somewhere...PLEASE SEND THEM TO SCHOOL WITH YOUR KINDER! We are always looking for supplies to add to our bins to get our brains pumping!! Enjoy the challenge, and try to capture a video to email me at kfisher@benton.k12.ia.us --Mrs. Fisher
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