5th grade Flip, Turn, Slide

Lets face it, with the cutting of programs and the terrible economy the "specials" need to prove why we are important and how to can help with those darn PSSA scores. Just to be clear I do think it is important to re-enforce what is going on in their classrooms too.

 So this lesson was inspired by the Flip (reflection), Turn (rotation), and Slide (translation) part of the PSSA test. Our students have trouble remembering how to do those directions on the test so I figured we could make it more exciting by making prints with ink of their initials. Their first initial = flip, 2nd initial= turn, 3rd initial= slide. (and yes I couldn't just call them first, middle and last initial b.c of all the Hyphenated last names :)  or the lack of middle names.  

We used foam to carve our initials ----"IF YOU DONT DO IT BACKWARDS THE LETTERS WILL NOT PRINT THE RIGHT WAY" didn't matter how many times I said it, I still had kiddos do it the wrong way!!!! 

 Next we rolled ink with the brayers on top of the foam, then printed it like a stamp on printing paper. 

This project took forever, but I will modify it for next year. Also next thing we will be working on CRAFTSMANSHIP.  Over all not too bad for a first try.