Commuting To Work

Analysis notes, for math education:
1. When I began disassembling Still Life, the embroidered felts became useful for collecting pieces, so that I could sometimes just be sorting, and then count my tally and write the results. This is less taxing than needing to collect, count, write, and put away a type of block all in one session, for me anyway.

2. The felts could be rearranged in order to decide on what the layout of the written tally will look like. I made the written chart first, as an adult learner. Learning style variations apply!

Language notes:
1. Older children might enjoy writing captions for photographs of their work and assembling into a little presentation, as I've done here, bringing a creative writing activity into the process.

Work habits notes:
1.  This slideshow is a playful way of returning to the project of tallying after a break. Still Life was so large I needed to allow two days and several separate sessions to complete the disassembling-and-tallying process.  It was refreshing to take a break from that mental work and have a creative writing piece. When I was lifting the pieces on their felts to return them to the boxes, I really did pretend they were individuals riding home through the air! I'm VERY fond of the blocks :-)