On the first day of the school year, we put up the first patch of our whale quilt on our classroom whiteboard. For twenty-five days, we put up whale quilt patches to count the first twenty-five days of school.

There were five different fabrics in our whale quilt. We gave each fabric pattern a name:

	This is the whale patch. It is dark blue with humpback whales printed on it
	This is the bubble net patch because the spots on it look like bubbles under water. The humpback whale makes a ring of bubbles in the water to catch its prey.
	This is the dolphin patch. It looks like blue water with dophins swimming in it.
	This is the seaweed kelp patch. The pattern looks like sea kelp in colors of turquoise, green and blue.
	This is the wave patch because the patterns of curving lines look like waves in the ocean.

We made comments about the quilt patch patterns and math ideas each day. We make predictions about what the next patch will be. Our comments were written on the whiteboard. We took a digital images of the patches each day and put the images into a document on the computer. Two children in the class typed each day's comments into the document. We printed the document to keep in a quilt math notebook. We re-read our quilt math comments.

You can follow our whale math quilt math comments from one patch to twenty five patches by clicking on each of the images below:

First Patch

Two Patches

Three Patches

Four Patches

Five Patches

Six Patches

Seven Patches

Eight Patches

Nine Patches

Ten Patches

Eleven Patches

Twelve Patches

Thirteen Patches

Fourteen Patches

Fifteen Patches

Sixteen Patches

Seventeen Patches

Eighteen Patches

Nineteen Patches

Twenty Patches

Twenty-one Patches

Twenty-two Patches

Twenty-three Patches

Twenty-four Patches

Twenty-five Patches

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