Volunteering in the Diamond Room

I volunteered in the Diamond Room (Miss M's class) one day during their two weeks of wood working as they needed additional hands in the classroom.  They use saws and hammers and screwdrivers so extra hands seems reasonable.  

The kids were all so happy I was there. They wanted to play and hang on me and sit on my lap and do story dictations.  There wasn't a dull moment with 16 four/five year olds. 

Miss M loves the easel.  She brings home so many painted papers. I can't keep all the paper she brings home or we'd drown in paper.

This is the chair that Miss M brought home earlier in the week for Bananas. 

 She cut and painted the wood all by herself.

Bananas loves it.

The kids are required to make/draw plans of what they want to build before they are allowed to work on the wood working table.  Miss M had drawn a picture of a table to go with her chair for Bananas, the monkey.  Her plans are the pinkish piece of paper at the bottom of the picture. It is one long rectangle with 8 squares around it for it's legs. Jayne, her teacher, said how she was really strong and good at sawing.

Measuring and marking the legs before cutting.

 Safety first. Gloves and glasses.  Sawing the tables legs.

Lafayette is using a machine to drill a hole into the block of wood so he can put a wheel on his car.

I did story dictations with Eleanor and her story was about Once upon a time Katy (me) came to her room...the best part of the picture is that Eleanor's mother went into the room the day before and drew a picture of Jill with multi colored hair b/c her roots were showing and needed touched up.  Eleanor gave me one solid color of hair and the eyes of a child never lie.