Break I

We took a break. Literally. Students were restless, it was rainy season, I had several students in each class who needed to finish their designs but most students had this completed.

So we sorted tile. By color. With the color wheel posted on the board, and a quick lesson in primary, secondary, tertiary colors. And analagous colors. And cool and warm colors. Then more tile sorting. Until the room looked like a tile store, with piles of tiles and tiles in piles and barely room to walk.





Break - phase II:
I put towels on the desks, handed out goggles, leather gloves, and tile cutters, assigned colors to various groups of students, and we broke. Smashed. Cut. Depending on the tile and the strength of the student, we were able to reduce the tiles to squares, triangles, unnamed polygons. We sorted. It took us a week. And the noise was deafening. But the students had a great time.