Just a Dot....

Some of the kindergartners haven't really perfected their skills of gluing and cutting and this makes for some stressful situations when we  pull out the scissors and glue for a project. 

We spend a lot of time reminding them

 that it takes "just a dot, not a lot"

 when they are using the glue. 

Today, several classes were making

Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Fence. 

This is one of those listening lessons where they get squares and rectangles and have to listen for the directions

 one step at a time to cut these into shapes

 and glue them in just the right place on their paper. 

Good times for this observer. 

If we say "just a dot" once,

we say it a million times.

The problem?

Not everyone is listening.

Just a dot, not a bottle.

Maybe he heard "just a lot, not a dot."

He certainly didn't HEAR the part about folding

the long brown rectangle in half and

 then cutting on the fold

to make the fence posts. 

And of course, the double layer folded brown

rectangle took an extra serving of glue.

See if you can tell which finished project below belongs to a good listener.

See the place that is marked EMPTY? 

We're waiting for the glue to dry. 

 It may take a week or two. 

Or it could possibly be never.