Trains and Legos

Trains and Legos this week...lots of creativity and problem solving goes into their play.

Dan's Valentine Lego Design

 

This is a scene from Daniel's most recent design on Lego Digital Designer for Valentine's Day...Daddy is giving Mommy pans! Cute!

Daniel's Lego Blacksmith Shop

These photos are precious to me. When we were doing the phone interview, Barbie suggested we take photos of the kids' work to post on Facebook. Rachel swiftly started taking photos for the live discussion.

Daniel has been on the LOLACHE Kids Forum looking at other LOL kids' projects. He is very interested in Peter L's smithy. We checked out some library books on blacksmithing but I don't think they've been read yet.

When Marilyn asked me to bring some of the kids' work for the phone interview, this Lego smithy was one of several Lego items that Daniel selected to bring.  I would have never really noticed it in all the Lego creations he builds except that it was selected to show Miss Marilyn.

This work is significant to me!  This is an official "product" of learning! I blogged about Daniel's interests and some concerns regarding his learning process. But here is EVIDENCE that something IS germinating in there!

And I LOVE how those lightsabers came in handy in his smithy design! Love the overhead light, too!

(photos by Rachel Poling)

1 2 3 Legos For Me

LOVE Sarah's Lego numbers!

Dan The Lego Man

John has been sorting Dan's Legos into little bins over the past few days. This makes it much easier for Daniel to build! He's been really drawn to his Lego counter lately!

More Lego Builder

I had to Dan was working on the Lego builder and got "bored"...I had to assign him a few things and his creativity was activated! He did a brilliant "fry pan" as I requested and the "chair" I told him to do turned into a theater (see screen in photo)!

Learning With Lego

I am tired today. The sun is out, it is gorgeous but I'm feeling like a lump. The kids on the otherhand are into hours of learning with lego! I uninstalled some of my website software that I never used, making room for the Lego Building download...Dan is having a ball! I can almost HEAR the gears in his brain grinding away as he is exploring and learning how to use the imaging program. And when I told him it was SCHOOL he got really excited!

Sarah has been contented to re-build her Winter Toy House and has been working through the pages of the instruction manual into the afternoon.

We are working on a plan to organize our Lego collection. How do you organized YOUR Lego? Feel free to leave a comment. I'm planning a post on Lego storage in the future.

Day in the SUN! MORE Legos!

What a glorious day! Sunshiney! We met with some LOL friends at the Broadway park and then home to delight in new lego sets!

We recently decided that Legos are an important part of our Lifestyle of Learning (aka-curriculum!) So we treated the kids to some special choices this afternoon at Target. They had a BALL diving in and building! I love Legos!