This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.
Monday, October 17, 2011
today at css...
This morning the 4th, 5th and 6th grade students at Clear Spring School finished the stamp dispenser trucks they have been making as a fund raiser for school travel. When the work was done, we made tops using spin paints. You put a dab of paint on the top and give it a quick spin to see what you get. In the high school classes this afternoon, Easton was the first to get four corners dovetailed to make a box. Other students practiced wood turning and other projects of interest and I have been applying Danish oil to the products I made last week in my wood shop.
Good work Easton! Dovetails won't be a mystery to him.
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