Valentine's Day Assembly Line



Before our Valentine Card Assembly could begin,
our class made hearts for the cards so that
our decorators could use them.

 

The assembly line at work.



With our new Social Studies Essential Standards, we are learning about producers and consumers.  To reinforce the concept of production, we worked together with Ms. Dickerson's class on Friday to create Valentine's Day cards in an assembly line.  Mrs. Walter, our art teacher, helped us to design and create our products.  Each student was assigned a job.  They had to focus on their responsibility and put a lot of effort into their work.  In 35 minutes, we created 158 Valentine's Day cards to share with a local nursing home.  We were proud of our hard work.  Afterwards, we discussed factors that helped production and factors that hurt production.  A lot of students said that working in a factory would be hard work, but that their jobs are necessary for production. 

 

Rodolfo worked as a folder.

 

Toni was part of the glue crew. 

He had to glue the message inside the card after the cover was decorated.





David's job was to run cards from the glue crew to the stampers.

Destiny worked as a stamper in our assembly line.

Tyler added a signature to the card
that read "From Dana Elementary School."

Jazmin worked as an inspector. 
She checked each card for quality
before the cards are ran to the envelope stuffers.

 

Rebecca worked as runner. 
She ran cards from the inspector to the envelope stuffers.

Carina stuffed cards into envelopes that she created.

Noah sealed each envelope with a strip of glue.



Karen bundled the cards (counting by tens) and boxed them up.



Jennifer, as our leader of the month, was the factory manager.
 She managed each group and ensured that all materials were available
and all jobs were being completed correctly.