This process has definitely been exhausting and I have been trying to think of ways that the material prep time could get cut down. It was nice being able to try teaching the same class 4 times, as well as teaching back to back. It gave me a chance to try different ways of teaching the class as well as material management. I had given myself 15 minutes in between classes and that was trickier than I anticipated to clean up and set up. In the future I would give myself a little more time if I were to do back to back classes again. The first week I had done twisty ties with blue tape for name tags and the second week I cut sticky notes in half and had the students just place them wherever they wanted on the jellyfish. The twisty ties were a little distracting and the students had a hard time attaching them. The sticky notes didn’t seem like a good idea until I started adding the thread and realized I could place the sticky note on the inside and sew through it.
I am planning on going in tomorrow afternoon to attach thread to the rest of the jellyfish.