Watercolour pencil crayons

Today we worked on our Father's Day cards with water colour pencil crayons.  We based our cards on the metaphor of a toolkit.  We talk about toolkits in health a lot. 

We defined a toolkit as a collection of tools we possess to help us fix things or solve problems. 

We often talk about the strategies in our toolkits to solve problems with our peers, or to solve math equations.   Today the class thought about all the wonderful things our fathers do for us and how amazing they are.  To do all these great things, we decided they must possess great traits and attributes.  Children talked about their fathers as being thoughtful, kind, funny, patient, caring, gentle, responsible, hard working and being good listeners.   These were the tools our father's have to do such a great job. 

The kids worked really hard with this new medium.  Children practiced creating dark perimeter lines and creating texture patterns inside.  Some children noted that next time, they would make their lines darker as they faded quite a bit when they added the water.