We are continuing the weaving exploration this spring by
using different materials and new ways to weave. The students have been very
engaged in using the class loom that has become a permanent fixture in the
classroom this term. They use every ribbon they can find to weave in the loom
while adjusting ribbons that are in their already.
This week I introduced yarn to the
students and how you can weave yarn into the loom just like the ribbons. The
children were very interested in the yarn itself and explored how you can bend
it and take
it apart. They pulled the yarn apart
into smaller strands, and then put it through the holes inside the loom.
One student had a ribbon in one hand
and a piece of yarn in the other and began to weave the pieces in and out of
the holes in the wired shelf. The wired shelf now holds light table materials,
but I would like to introduce weaving on the wired shelf. Next week I would
like to empty the wired shelf and have the students use ribbons and yarn to
weave in and out of the wire.
