Quilting from Start to Finish

At the beginning of the school year students and I worked on a getting to know you quilting project where we answered a list of questions on  a variety of colored triangles. We then quilted the triangles together along with square photographs of ourselves. The class quilt has been hanging outside of our classroom all year and serves as a welcome sign to our many visitors. If they take the time to stop and read it, they will learn our favorite colors, foods, school subjects, and even names. 


To close our school year, we quilted again. The difference was that instead of mixing ourselves up throughout the quilt we each had our own personalized quilting block. Each student used tangram shapes to create a design unique to them on a 10x10" block. (Be sure to ask you third grader what " means by the way!) The cool thing about these designs is that each tangram shape has a meaning to your third grader. Each tangram is something they learned this year. The code was as follows: blue rhombus- human body, red trapezoid-biography, green triangle- reading, yellow hexagon- math, orange square- community, and brown skinny rhombus- what I like about third grade. 


This activity was really fun for our class because it gave us a chance during our last week to reflect on those things we had learned that were important to us and talk about our memories with our friends. And the end result was absolutely beautiful!