Looking closely at the wood chips, Brooke began finding letters. Each time she encountered another possible letter, she brought the piece to Lauri and they saved it in a bowl. This week, we invited others to help Brooke with her project.
Could we create an alphabet with wood chips?
We sort, we find, we arrange, we glue!
We have an E! CHARLIE then creates a Z.
That’s a backwards Z, Charlie. BEATRICE
We have a G for giraffe. BIRDIE
Do we have a K? CHARLIE
I’m looking for a W. I need 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 lines. Two long and two short. I was kind to give Sevi and Charlie a card. BIRDIE
F! /f/ /f/ /f/! F! /f/ /f/ /f/! RAY
I found a short line! BIRDIE
I found a long line! CHARLIE
Not that long. BIRDIE
I found one. SEVI
Sevi, that’s perfect! BIRDIE
This line, this line and this line. SEVI
I made the J! The little one. This is the dot. RAY
I need to measure it. BIRDIE
Birdie, is it supposed to go that way? SEVI
I’m done with the N! BEATRICE
Charlie, I made the V. SEVI
It is too small, you have to measure it. CHARLIE
It is no matter. It can be small. SEVI
Well then, you have to put the card so we know it’s done. CHARLIE
“You couldn’t use just one piece. I made a B. It was tricky, but not too tricky. A big curve and a little curve. It was hard to find one last bump.”
BIRDIE
