IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

Exciting Mouse Town things have continued to happen over the past week!

Last week, after finishing our drawings, we graphed our buildings to scale.

On Monday, we used our graphed drawings to build models of our buildings.

Seth and Madeline work on the model of their conjoined doctor’s and dentist’s office.

Faith and Aaliyah work on the model of their hotel for Mouse Town.

Then, yesterday, we had a special guest architect come and speak to us about the process of designing and constructing buildings. Olivia’s dad, Mr. Eggink, is an architect in Indianapolis. He showed us a model of his home that he designed and pictures of a building his company designed in Indy.

Mr. Eggink hold up the model of his home so that we can look at it from a bird’s eye view.

Mr. Eggink shows the class a computer generated picture of a building his company designed in Indy.

After listening to Mr. Eggink, students noticed that his buildings had door and windows, and our do not. Because of this, we went and added doors and windows during our math workshop yesterday. Today, we will work on the interior of our buildings. Throughout the rest of the week, we will finish our interiors and begin decorating the exterior parts of our buildings and then assembling the town.

Jaeda shows us her mall, complete with windows and doors.

The kids’ excitement continues as we enter each different phase of this process. We can’t wait to see what it looks like when it’s finished!

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