Help - Egyptian Mummy Coffin

gingin_2

My son had a similar task but different theme and people were really thinking outside the box ( excuse the pun) One did a cake version of the task and to me that was genius, because, in my opinion, it's easier to make a sculpture out of cake rather than cardboard and it can be eaten at the end.

Otherwise, I'd go for a shoe box and develop it from there.

j.e.j.

Running_On_Empty wrote: »

Why is this your homework and not your son's?

Will you be informing his teacher of the help you received in the completion of the task on his behalf?

Oh do give it a rest :rotfl: It's a fun task to be done over the half term hols by the sound of it.

alanalea I love the idea of the long balloon and the elastic band, - genius!

Melaniep101

My daughter had to do this too! Although it was about 10 years ago!

She did hers with papier mache, made the bottom part then a lid which went over the top. She painted it with gold paint and it was pretty good really for an 8 year old. Still got it somehere!

Savvy_Sue

Plastic bottle cut in half??? You can get squarish water bottles, can't you?

PinkLipgloss

Running_On_Empty wrote: »

Why is this your homework and not your son's?

Will you be informing his teacher of the help you received in the completion of the task on his behalf?

As a Year 1 teacher I can state that these type of "homework challenges" (typically issued over holiday periods/long weekends) are meant to be a collaborative effort of parent/child. It involves parents in their childrens learning and reinforces topics/knowledge/skills covered in class.

Parents are not of course meant to take over and do it by themselves - in my experience that is extremely rare.

I often have parents tell me how much they enjoyed these tasks. They say how surprised they have been by their childs knowledge, skills and ideas. It's the type of thing a lot of parents will not find time to do unless it is for school.

**Patty**

gingin wrote: »

My son had a similar task but different theme and people were really thinking outside the box ( excuse the pun) One did a cake version of the task and to me that was genius, because, in my opinion, it's easier to make a sculpture out of cake rather than cardboard and it can be eaten at the end.

Otherwise, I'd go for a shoe box and develop it from there.

That brings back memories........:rotfl:

I once did a castle with cake for my DD for a history project.

jackomdj

PinkLipgloss wrote: »

As a Year 1 teacher I can state that these type of "homework challenges" (typically issued over holiday periods/long weekends) are meant to be a collaborative effort of parent/child. It involves parents in their childrens learning and reinforces topics/knowledge/skills covered in class.

Parents are of course not meant to take over and do it by themselves - in my experience that is extremely rare.

I often have parents tell me how much they enjoyed these tasks. They tell me how surprised they have been by their childs knowledge, skills and ideas. It's the type of thing a lot of parents will not find time to do unless it is for school.

We love doing our homework projects, it is interesting to see the products in the playground as you can see which the children have not had any help with, which it has been a family effort and which the parent has done on their own!

gingin_2

jackomdj wrote: »

We love doing our homework projects, it is interesting to see the products in the playground as you can see which the children have not had any help with, which it has been a family effort and which the parent has done on their own!

And there is always one child with the super-parent who has spent the entire weekend whittling wood felled from their own trees for the project making [STRIKE]me[/STRIKE] everyone feel very inferior!

I have the artistic skills of a 3 year old so our efforts always look poor compared to everyone else, I can deal with it .... just :cool:

clearingout

gingin wrote: »

And there is always one child with the super-parent who has spent the entire weekend whittling wood felled from their own trees for the project making [STRIKE]me[/STRIKE] everyone feel very inferior!

I have the artistic skills of a 3 year old so our efforts always look poor compared to everyone else, I can deal with it .... just :cool:

my children's school has an egg decorating competition at Easter...my eldest won last year but I swear that was because his was the only one that didn't look like an adult had done it. Unfortunately, this adult had planned it and executed it and got annoyed when her helper did a slap dash job of the painting (went over it all when he was in bed!!!)....so in our case, being a non-creative adult payed off in a weird kind of way!

Running_On_Empty

At what age is the child deemed to be an independent learner and thus not requiring parental input?
I can understand that parents may wish to supervise their child's learning but this surely crosses the line?