Sunday, May 2, 2010

Vocabulary Parade

In third grade at A.'s school, they held the 3rd annual Vocabulary Parade. This is a project that is completely done at home. A. had to select a word from the curriculum that has been covered this year and create an outfit. The idea comes from the book Miss Alaineus, where 5th grade students host their own vocabulary parade. Anyway, after A. selected his word, then came how we would design a costume representing his 'vocab word'. A good friend of mine has made several freezer paint shirts for her family and I thought this would be a good opportunity to try it ourselves. I found a lightning bolt stencil on line, traced it onto freezer paper, cut it out with an exacto knife, ironed the freezer paper on the t-shirt with the bolt cut out of it, then painted the bolt with white paint. Waited a few hours to dry, and pulled the paper off the shirt. As you can tell, I made three on his shirt.



Here is A. reading the definition of his word to the audience.

1 comment:

Amber D. said...

That is such a fun idea! Love it...makes me think about how fun teaching can be!

Love the outfit and poster A!