A couple of weeks ago Mrs B’s math class finished a quilt for Mrs. Plumhoff, who is having a baby boy. This will be her first child so she is very excited. In math class we were doing a section that used fractions. We do projects for every unit, so Mrs. B suggested that we could make a quilt for Mrs. Plumhoff using math skills from our current unit.
The first thing we did was to go to JoAnn’s fabric and pick out fabric for the quilt. Mrs. Plumhoff’s theme is going to be Curious George, so we found really cute fabric that matched that theme. We all thought about what the quilt should look like and how we could build it with patterns.
We came up with some great ideas together and with some direction from Mrs. B decided on a plan. It was so fun sewing together. Mrs. B is a very good sewer and Chris’s mom helped us also. We used a sewing machine to assemble the quilt and did hand stitching to add detail to the squares in the middle.
After a few weeks of fun work we completed the quilt and presented it to Mrs. Plumhoff during lunch. She was so happy and is looking forward to using it. I had a great experience with my class. It was a fun to make something that a new born baby will use and we learned a little practical math along the way. Yes, math class can be fun!
- Aubrie Sawin, Freshman
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