Our Very Own LEGO Designs

July 11, 2022

            Welcome to week 5 of our summer school! A very big warm welcome to Ry (Rs’ brother), A (welcome back to Flowers!), and Is ! We are very happy to have you. Let’s have fun learning about how our food and toys are made. We had an interesting discussion about how we think Lego blocks are made. Who doesn’t love Lego😊 Everyone actively engaged in our activity about Lego? Please read on to discover what happened as our imagination take the lead!

 MORNING ACTIVITIES

            We got excited to see a table full of Lego mini figures and accessories. They have different features, too. Our hands were full as we tried to mix and match them. Next to these LEGO toys were sets of castles that we built by ourselves. We had fun building castles and having the LEGO mini figures act around them. We also enjoyed hammering nails on cork boards to make different patterns. A set of large blocks were on the mat, too! Some our friends had a wonderful time looking at our science books that feature the human body.

            Talking about toys, we made one today. We drew lines and different patterns on a circle-shaped cardboard stock. Can you guess what we made? A spinner! Our teachers will put a thin rope through it, and we could try them tomorrow.

 WATER PLAY and GROUP ACTIVITY

            Thanks to today’s bright weather, we were able to enjoy water play. This week’s weather forecast looks like today might be the only perfect day for water play. We had two groups for water play and while waiting for our turn, we had a group activity.

            Vieda said that we let us imagine that LEGO company asked us to design a new set of LEGO blocks. We were given papers, markers, and colored pencils to work on our very own design of LEGO blocks. As a group, we were supposed to take turns in sharing our idea about the design. We did not expect that it would take us some time to finish our design, which made the waiting time for our friends longer. So as not to miss any ideas, our teachers gave each of us a piece of paper to draw our designs.

            Please enjoy these “newest” LEGO designs!

 Ky: This is concert LEGO. People are lining up outside. People are going inside. People are lining up here. Someone is singing a song. New pieces are the speakers.

 Ri: Play. Circle LEGO. This shopping, apple LEGO.

K: This is a tower. IT needs different piece. It has a different kind of shapes – triangle, square, rectangle, circle, and half circles. LEGO has different sizes. You need to make each shape and connect each shape.

 Hi: House and flowers growing

 Ak: It’s like a rainbow airplane or jet. There are two big jets inside. It can take bad guys. New rainbow LEGO and black wings, small orange, black and blue airplanes. The net will catch the bad guys. This is called RAINBOW SUPER JET.

 S: LEGO house. (She tried her best to make an angle for the rood.) This is rainbow LEGO.

 N: This LEGO can talk. It can move its arms. It can try to grab things.

 Is: My LEGO can move. Even his arms could move. My LEGO can eat you in one piece! Down here is the Godzilla one.

 N: You can make people and cake with my LEGO. There’s also a stairs, house, and baby. It can change its colors at nighttime.

 L: You can play with my LEGO.

 A: My LEGO house set. IT has a car and banana shape here.

 C: This the people on bed. The people can walk by themselves. If you tell her, “ELSA!”, it can talk to you.

 M: My LEGO has zigzag large blocks. They can move by themselves. I put a magic on them. If you say, “abra kadabra, MOVE! They will move by themselves.

 Y: This is Tokyo Tower set. His moving is, it moves back. It can work. It can help people by tapping on them.

 K: My LEGO blocks can move. They have zigzag feet. They just move and get some food (veggies, cookies) from their houses.

 Ry: This is my LEGO machine. It walks on one leg. They are making bread. The flavors you can choose from are strawberry, blueberry, and bananas. I call it “MACHINE-R”.

 Rs: This is my magnet LEGO set. It can talk but it can only say, “hello! I don’t want him to say anything else. This LEGO is for 0, 1, and 2 -year -old. My LEGO has a candle on top. It changes the color in the middle of the night. All the colors will change at nighttime.

 M: I made a bird LEGO set.

 R: I made a robot LEGO. The square thing is the one you move it with. You can tell him where you want to go. Then the robot tells you, “Follow me!” and can take you where you want to go to!

  Our teachers were so impressed with our newest LEGO designs! As you might have already noticed, we tried to make something that we don’t see in our LEGO blocks right now (for example, we made different shapes, moving LEGO and LEGO which you could use as a map!). Cheers to our future LEGO designers!

 CIRCLE TIME

            When all of the 20 Flowers friends sat in a circle, we were able to welcome our new friends and they were able to hear everyone’s friends as well.

            Vieda: Do you know who are our new friends today?

            Ky: Rs’ brother

            N: Ry ! I know him before because I met him at the forest.

            M: Oh, I forgot!
           Ak: A!

            C: I know her from Flowers class before.

            A: She sat next to me in our movie night.

            A: I went to America.

            Vieda: Who’s our other new friend (gave clues)?

            Is: Is it ME? I don’t have curls and my hair is blonde. I am 3 years old.

            N: Me, too!

            A: I’m 3, too!
           L: I’m 3 years old.

            S: I’m 5 and 6.

            Vieda showed us a few pieces of LEGO blocks and talked about our question of the day (Do you know how LEGO blocks are made?)

            R: Made of plastic and wood

            M: No, it’s made of plastic only.

            N: I think, someone did this short bit (pointing at the block’s edges). Wrapped it in paper and then took the paper off after.

            M: Machine made it!

            K: What kind of machine is it?

            M: A machine that makes the shape of that block.

            K: What’s the name of the machine?

            M: I don’t know.

            Y: Made of plastic.

            N: I think…oh I don’t know!

            M: Oh, I know! Someone designs it!

            R: (a new) Energy

            K: 3D printer!

            Ky: 3D pencil?

 Hmm, each of us can research about how LEGO blocks are made when we go home today. Please share what you will find out with the class tomorrow. By the way, does anyone know what LEGO means? What language is it?

            Ky: Lithuanian?

            Ak: Korean?

            Re: China?

            S: Japanese?

            Ky Philippines?

            S: French?

            M: Hebrew?

            Vieda: It starts with D…

            Re: Doggie?

            Vieda: D then followed with an a.. DA…

            S: DAVID!

            Vieda: Close! It’s DANISH! What do you think does LEGO mean?

            Ak: GO like let’s go somewhere!

Flowers friends, please remember to check what LEGO means😊 You will feel excited when you learn the meaning is!

 We hope you had a marvelous Monday! See you all tomorrow!

 Love,

Flowers XOXO