December
Students are finishing their first sewing project (banner or the drawstring bag) and starting a new project.
We will be working on our clothing care unit! In class we will be learning how to read the tags on our clothing. We will be practicing with a Bingo game and working to complete Assignment 2 on this page. To wrap up the unit you will do a load of laundry and finish Assignment 3 on this page.
Assignment 2- Please submit to [email protected]
Every article of clothing you own will have a tag. This tag will include information such as fiber content, where it was made, and care instructions.
This assignment is to help you understand the care labels on the clothing you wear.
The symbols that help instruct you how to care for your clothing will have wash, bleach, dry, iron and possible dry clean instructions. Using the first document care symbols decode the care labels on the worksheets in the second and third document 'decoding care symbols'. When completing the assignment make sure you pay attention to both the cycle and heat to be used when washing and drying. The video below may help as well.
Students are finishing their first sewing project (banner or the drawstring bag) and starting a new project.
We will be working on our clothing care unit! In class we will be learning how to read the tags on our clothing. We will be practicing with a Bingo game and working to complete Assignment 2 on this page. To wrap up the unit you will do a load of laundry and finish Assignment 3 on this page.
Assignment 2- Please submit to [email protected]
Every article of clothing you own will have a tag. This tag will include information such as fiber content, where it was made, and care instructions.
This assignment is to help you understand the care labels on the clothing you wear.
The symbols that help instruct you how to care for your clothing will have wash, bleach, dry, iron and possible dry clean instructions. Using the first document care symbols decode the care labels on the worksheets in the second and third document 'decoding care symbols'. When completing the assignment make sure you pay attention to both the cycle and heat to be used when washing and drying. The video below may help as well.
Care Symbols | |
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Decoding Care Symbols Part 1 | |
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Decoding Care Symbols Part 2 | |
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Assignment 3- Please submit to [email protected]
This week I challenge you to do a load of laundry, but you need to ask your parent or guardian. If you got the okay, follow the steps below.
1. Check all pockets for any items.
2. Check the clothing for any stains. If there are stains you can pre-treat them with a stain remover.
3. Sort the clothing.
- Sort into piles of white clothing, light and dark.
- You may need to consider the degree of soiling (dirt) on the clothing. If clothing is covered in mud or maybe grease, you will want to keep that clothing separate.
- Consider texture of the fabric. Towels will typically go all in the same load, delicate fabrics together in their own load, and denim (jeans) together possible combined with sweats.
- **Get a parent/guardian to double check your sorting to make sure they approve. There will be special circumstances that fabrics can be mixed so they might want to move some of the clothing you sorted.**
4. Pick a load to put in the washing machine.
- When adding detergent you need to consider the following:
- Size of the load (a smaller load will not require as much detergent as a larger load).
- Use less detergent if you have a high efficiency machine.
- Degree of soiling on the clothes (if the clothing has a lot of dirt you will need to add more detergent).
- DO NOT add bleach. Ask a parent or guardian for help, or just skip the bleach completely.
- Choose a water temperature that is appropriate. Hot water is used for bedding or very dirty clothing. Cold is used for clothing you do not want to shrink or fade in color. Cold can also be used if you have a cold-water detergent.
5. After the load is done in the wash. Take it out and determine if anything needs to be hung to dry or if it can go into the dryer. You can refer back to our clothing care label worksheet to help you with this.
6. Fold the laundry and put it away.
COMPLETE THE REFLECTION BELOW
laundry_reflection_assignment.docx | |
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