Today was the second-to-last session of Thursday After School, and we all started with our best game faces. At the beginning of the afternoon, our elephant that feeds a squirrel to a peanut was in bits and pieces and seriously needed some critical thinking skills and hard work. The bad news, though, everyone had a really long and tiring day today. It was so hard to stay on task and get things done! The good news is that we stuck to it and made some serious progress.
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Today was an exciting day of progress. We worked the the heads of our squirrel and elephant. We split up into a couple of teams and went to work. It was a fun-filled, engaging time for all figuring how to shape the head, make the ears, and choosing a color to use.
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It was a great day of progress on our elephant, squirrel, peanut project. Everyone came in excited and energized to do good work.
Read MoreThe title says it all!
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Today, we made some big progress on the Build-an-Elephant-that-Feeds-a-Peanut-to-a-Squirrel project! This group of Tinkerers naturally gravitates into team that collaborate very well, understand how to communicate to one another, and constantly set goals and achieve them as we move through the session, and today was an awesome example of this well-oiled Tinkering machine!
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Last week, the Thursday After School Tinkerers were trained in how to safely use the tools, and also in how to treat one another and the space during our Thursday afternoons together. Interspersed in last week's excitement as also lots and lots of chatter about "what's the project?!" What are we going to be working so hard and spending so much time going together? Can we sit in it? Can we play with it? Is it a dragon?
Yes, yes, and maybe?
Read MoreWhat are we going to build!? Our first day of our latest after school program began with a flurry of questions and creative inspiration...could we build a dog house!? Or maybe a canoe!?
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