Since I want to be a teacher of little children, I could create an activity called “multicolor Christmas object.” I could cut squares from four different colors of construction paper and have four little bowls of those same four colors of the squares and make the children put the squares in their correct bowls and then count them. After they practice their math skills, if it’s Christmas time, I could give them a variety of Christmas stuffs, such as snowflakes, Santa Clause hats and snowmen cut from a white poster board and tell them to choose among those three so they could stick with glue the squares on top.
In this activity, the children could practice their math skills by counting how many squares have the same color or how many squares they will use in their Christmas object and etc. Also, the children could have an art experience by having the opportunity to decorate a Christmas object with the squares. The purpose is for the children to practice their math skills while at same time using their creativity in decorating a Christmas object. After the children finished their Christmas objects, I could make holes on tops of the objects in order for the families to hang up their children work in their real Christmas tree.
*Question: Is this exercise a good balance between math and art?
*Date: October 25, 2010
*Time: 12: 52 am
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