January 9th was our first day of English with Lacy and to open the class up and get everything started we played with string. I thought it was really fun to act like kids again and relax some while also connecting the string game to the lesson. We got three sheets of paper from Lacy on how to make different kids of shapes. The first paper had directions to make the base. That was the easy one, the next two took a couple of attempts but with the help of people around me I got it down. The Cup and Saucer is what I did above and the last one was the owl's eye which looked pretty cool when I finally got it. I remember learning how to do these string games in middle school one day and I use to get so frustrated because I could never understand how to do it. When we did it in class I was having fun and eventually got it. It's kind of cool that someone figured out how to do this with string. Like I wonder what they were doing to figure that out, were they playing with string and just happened to make a cup and saucer or an eye's owl? MIND BLOWN. The base I can understand, but whoever figured out how to do all the other complicated tricks deserves some props. It's impressive how creative people can be, especially when all you have is a foot of string.
I'm definitely glad we got to do this activity the first day of class. It made me think past the piece of string and made me realize this is going to be an interesting class!
I agree, props to the people or person who discovered the miscellaneous shapes. I also wonder how it came about; on the toilet, while reading a book, tying shoes, etc. I would love to interview someone who created one of the shapes and see how they came about it.
ReplyDeleteIve always wondered how people made up some of the games we played as kids, especially this one. As a kid I was challenged when it came to the string games. Its funny that it took about 12 years before I finally got it. I agree, im glad we got to do this.
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