Coleman's Camp - Weekly Journal Entry: 2/18/2013

Week of 2-18: The heavy snow hit our area and closed down schools and the library; my Thursday group missed this week.  However, by Saturday the library was open again and I was able to meet with the kids, who all were excited to be out of the house and doing something!  We continued to work on our tessellations, finishing drawing over the pencil tracings and then adding colors.  Kids experimented with adding in simple two-dimensional shapes repeating inside the tessellating forms they originally drew.  For the second hour we returned to the audio hide/find challenge from last week, where kids are on teams and hide things from each other.  The team members must listen carefully to recorded directions to find the objects.  The kids continue to learn how to refine step-by-step directions, give accurate and distinct descriptions, and even to anticipate the mistakes and misunderstandings of team members.