That is so great!  How did they do that?

Our Igloo

In our classroom, the students get to make many of the decisions about how they spend their time.  One of the projects that they requested was building an igloo out of milk jugs! 

First, we made a plan.  We decided that we would need to collect milk jugs.

We would need a guideline for the structure.  So we put a line of tape on the floor.

Then we started to build.  Even the kids helped to put it together.  We learned about how to SAFELY manage a glue gun and how to put the milk jugs together while the glue dried.

We took the experience to a whole new level when we made the igloo into a mathematics lesson.  The students counted each milk cap and we graphed them according to color. 

Then, we used linking cubes to make a graph we could modify. (Pink was the highest on the graph, and since we don't have any pink linking cubes, nor orange milk caps, we used the orange linking cubes as the pink milk cap color for our 3D graph.)  We looked at our graph in two ways, color order, and from least to most!

Finally, we broke them into sticks of 10 so we could count the total number of milk jugs by 10's.  We used 253 milk jugs! 

Now, we use this as a cozy place to read our stories to each other.