Construction

Last week, we had taken a construction table out to see if the children would be interested in playing with the tools. The children seemed to enjoy the table so we decided to extend the activity by turning the house into a construction site. We added an activity of Screws and Bolts, some wood, poly-b piping and cones. The children said that they needed hard hats, vests and tool belts to wear. We talked about safety signs that can be found on a construction site. Roberto, Preston and Colin wanted to make stop signs, and Noah made a No Children Allowed sign. We decided to have a site manager. His or her job consisted of making sure that workers signed in for work and that the safety rules, that we wrote together, were respected. We also had the children write popcorn words to put on the wood blocks that we added to our construction site.

Our construction site.

Joanna-Lee, Giuliana and Ava are writing popcorn words for our wood blocks.

Krishna is making a tool sign to identify where to put tools during tidy-up time.

Noah`s No Children Allowed sign

Making patterns with screws and bolts.

Savera is making a tool belt.

Taylen is our site manager. He is making sure workers are signing up for work.