Thursday, June 21, 2012

A mosaic tile for our Butterfly Garden

Yesterday Room 1 students worked together to make a mosaic tile for our garden. Butterflies like to land on  rocks and stones to warm themselves so we hope that they will like our new tile when the weather gets warmer! We can use it to step on when we pull out the weeds and water our garden as well. We need to leave it inside to set hard until after the holidays.
First we planned our design on paper.
We mixed the cement mix and water in a big bucket.
We put a sheet of reinforcing mesh in the  middle so it will be strong.
We took turns to push the glass beads from our design into the wet concrete mix.
Room 1 think it looks great!
We hope butterflies like it too!

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