We count our days of school by putting a quilt patch up each school day to build a quilt. We start on the first day of school! We make math comments about the patches and the patterns in the quilt. By looking at the patterns that grow with each added patch, we make predictions about what the next patch might be. We make many Days of School Quilts during the school year. Each quilt has a theme. When we finish putting up the patches in a theme quilt, a parent volunteer, Mrs. Lori Baker Eveleth, sews the patches into a quilt for us.
Our first 1998-99 Days of School Quilt was a bird egg quilt. We were studying birds when we made this quilt.
The Bird Egg Quilt had 5 rows with 5 patches in each row. It has 25 patches for the first 25 days of school.
Our second days of School Quilt was a Fall Leaf Quilt. We were studying fall leaves when we made this quilt.
This quilt had patches with oak leaves, aspen leaves, maple leaves, and apple leaves. The fabric for the first leaf became the background for the next patch. That pattern of the leaf becoming the background happened with every new patch. This quilt has 5 rows with 5 patches in each row. This quilt has 25 patches all together. When we finished this quilt we had finished 50 days of school.
Our next Days of School Quilt was a meteor quilt. We were learning about meteors when we made this quilt. Each patch had stars on it! The first patch was a simple square. All of other patches were squares made out of 2 triangles. Sometimes two triangles made a big triangle. Can you find some big triangles?
Sometimes two triangles made a parallelogram. Can you find the parallelograms?
This quilt has 5 rows with 5 patches in each row. It is a 25 patch quilt. When we finished this quilt, we had finished 75 days of school.
Our next quilt was a Winter Snow Quilt. When we made this quilt, it was winter outside. Some patches had snow flakes. Some patches had a dark night sky pattern. Some patches looked like winter frost. This was a cool color quilt! BRRRR!
This quilt has 4 rows with 4 patches in each row. It is a 16 patch quilt. When we finished this quilt, we had finished 91 days of school.
Our next Days of School Quilt was an Astronaut Quilt. We were studying the solar system and space when we made this quilt.
This quilt has three different fabrics in it: an astronaut fabric, a space fabric, and an fabric with alphabet letters floating in space! It has 3 rows with 3 patches in each row. It is a 9 patch quilt. When we finished this quilt, we had finished 100 days of school.
Our next Days of School Quilt was a Valentine's Quilt because we made it in February around Valentine's Day.
This quilt had bright red fabrics that look like waves on the ocean. It has 2 rows of patches with 2 patches in each row. It is a 4 patch quilt. When we finished this quilt we had finished 104 days of school.
Our next Days of School Quilt was a Ladybug Quilt. The ladybugs on our playground were starting to come out of hibernation when we were building this quilt.
Each square patch in this quilt has four small squares. One of the small squares has even smaller squares! This quilt has 4 rows with 5 patches in each row. There are 20 square patches in the quilt. If there are 20 patches and each patch has four small squares, how many small squares are there in each row? How many small squares are there in all 4 rows together? When we finished building this quilt, we had finished 124 days of school.
Our next Days of School Quilt was a Spring Green Quilt. When we built this quilt, lots of trees were getting green leaves. The plants and grass were growing. It was Spring time!
Each patch had 4 triangles! The dark green triangles had violets. We were doing our Violet Botany when we were building this quilt. There were 5 rows and each row had 5 patches. This is a 25 patch quilt. When we finished this quilt we had finished 149 Days of School.
Our last Days of School Quilt was a Summer Seashore Quilt. We were thinking about summer seashores when we built this quilt. Some patches had starfish, some had sand dollars, some had seashells, and some had whales!
There are 8 rows in this quilt with 4 patches in each row...except that the last row only had 3 patches on our last day of school.
It was a 31 patch quilt when we finished our 180 days of school. It needed one more patch to be complete. We put a giraffe on the quilt where the last patch could go. Mrs. Baker Eveleth added a whale patch to finish the quilt!
We made a song from the pattern of the patches by rows.
The starfish patch was 1 on a C scale.
The sand dollar patch was a 2 on the C scale.
The seashells were a 3 on the C scale.
The whales were a 4 on the C Scale.
The song has two verses: The first verse from the 1st four rows of the quilt is:
1 2 3 4
4 3 2 1
1 4 3 2
4 3 2 1
The 2nd verse from the next four rows of the quilt is:
2 1 3 4
3 2 1 2
4 3 2 1
2 1 3 4
We play our song on our classroom Chimalong xylophone.
We hope you have enjoyed our Days of School Quilts! We want to give a special thank you to Mrs. Lori Baker Eveleth for sewing all our Days of School Quilts!