Project 4: Sweet Rosary for All Saints (4th and 5th year groups) - Autumn 2014

This project is on our list every year and is usually undertaken by the students who are planning a school trip as the finished project is raffled and the proceeds go towards lessening the cost of that trip. 

The work is undertaken simultaneously with another project as not all students can work on it at the same time. Students rotate, sewing different sweets and biscuits on to a long piece of thick string and adding other elements which are relevant to the schools centre of interest which, as we mentioned in a previous post, was books and reading this course. 

With this project, we work on manipulative skills and mathematical sequencing.

Material needed:

• String (like the one used in the Mallorcan "matances")
• A variety of sweets and biscuits
• Squares of coloured tissue paper
• Laminated quotes from different books (handwritten by students)
• "Patana" (Circle which will serve as the central point, like the crucifix in a rosary)
• Needle and thread
• Scissors

How we do it: 

1. Wrap all the sweets and biscuits in different colour tissue paper.
2. Sew the sweets on to the thick string in sequence.
3. Add a laminated quote after each sequence.
4. At the end, add the "patana"