Camp Chair Progress

A few weeks ago Ms. Rosman and I picked up all the lumber we'll need for our camp chair project. It was a longer ordeal at the Home Depot than we had anticipated, but we did get the wood cut down to manageable proportions for free.

Ms. Rosman's Fourth Grade students have been working on measuring and marking the cuts that will have to be made to the chairs. We visited Ms. Rosman's class today to see their progress and even lend a hand. Her students are busy applying their math skills to the project, and we got to see them model those skills in a real-world context.

Ailay enjoyed trying out a prototype of the camp chair (see the picture on left). All of our students have been assigned partners in Ms. Rosman's class to work with. When we visited their classroom, these Fourth Graders showed us how they were measuring and marking the wood. When it comes time to sand the chairs, paint our names on them, and seal them with Linseed Oil, our partners will help us do all of that. Our students seemed very pleased to work with the Fourth Graders, and the Fourth Graders were all very helpful.

If you have not yet submitted payment ($6.00) for your child's chair, you can do so with me at anytime. We will hopefully have them all finished sometime in early December.