My fourth lesson

My final lesson. After finally getting all 30 of the shrimp back packs to the school the only things left to do now was to put the painted yellow spots on the legs from last lesson, paint the eyes and attach the straps.

After showing the class the shrimps. I think they were all amazed to see what they and been working on all come together as I think some of them had forgotten what we were working towards as it was over a month ago when I brought my prototype in to show them. The fist activity I showed the children to do was sticking on the spots to the legs. this needed a diagram the show where I wanted them exactly  and several demonstrations as it kept on going wrong. As they were finishing I got out paint for them to start painting the eyes and this started to make the creatures come alive. When they started to finish doing this I started to demonstraight how to put the straps on after 3 of the children trying and failing to do this and it was starting to creep to the end of the lesson I decided that the children could not manage to push the cotton tape through the corex and I would have to come back and do this in my own time.

This was really disappointing as they could not try the back packs on which was such a let down but hopefully after next week they will. It was such a let down as they were so nearly done I couldn't quite finish them.