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Week 03 · Laundry, Start to Finish

Thursday

Fold it
// Sort, read the tag, wash with a grown-up, fold, put away
⏱ about 15 min

Thursday: Fold it

A warm, clean pile sits on the den table. Bennie the Bear rubs his paws together. "Folding time."

Rosie the Rabbit grabs a towel and crumples it into a ball. "Done!" Bennie chuckles. "A ball is not a fold. Watch."

He lays the towel flat. Folds it in half. Folds it in half again. Then once more. A neat rectangle. "Three folds. Now it stacks." Rosie tries. Her towel is a little crooked, but it stacks. "Hooray!"

Why fold

Clean clothes that are not folded get wrinkled and lost. Folded clothes stack, fit in drawers and look ready to wear.

There are three folds to learn this week. The towel fold, the shirt fold and the pants fold. Each one has only a few moves.

Fold on a flat surface, like a table or a made bed. Smooth each piece before you fold it.

The towel fold

  1. Lay the towel flat and smooth it.
  2. Fold it in half the long way.
  3. Fold it in half again.
  4. Fold it in half one more time. Stack it.

The shirt fold

  1. Lay the shirt flat, face down. Smooth it.
  2. Fold one side to the middle, sleeve and all.
  3. Fold the other side to the middle.
  4. Fold the bottom up to the top. Flip it over.

The pants fold

  1. Lay the pants flat. Smooth them.
  2. Fold one leg on top of the other.
  3. Fold the legs up toward the waist.
  4. Fold once more if they are long.
FOLD CHECK
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
How many folds does Bennie's towel take?
What do you do before every fold?
What is the first move of the pants fold?
Rosie's towel was a little crooked. Is that okay?
THE SHIRT FOLD. PUT THE MOVES IN ORDER.
  • ?Fold the other side to the middle.
  • ?Flip it over.
  • ?Lay it flat, face down.
  • ?Fold the bottom up.
  • ?Fold one side to the middle.
WHY THIS EXERCISEThis is the same fold from Week 2. Sides first make a rectangle that stacks.
What shape does a towel make after three folds?
Which way does the shirt face when you lay it flat?
Where is a good place to fold laundry?
StatementTrue or false?
A ball is a kind of fold.?
Folded clothes stack and fit in drawers.?
You fold pants by putting one leg on top of the other first.?
Towels should be folded while still wet.?
WHY THIS EXERCISEDry, flat, smooth, fold. Wrinkles and lost clothes disappear.
Who crumpled a towel into a ball in the story?
WHY THIS EXERCISEEveryone starts with a ball. A few tries later it is a stack.
Try it
Ask your grown-up for a basket of clean, dry laundry.
Fold two towels, two shirts and one pair of pants.
Stack each kind in its own pile.
Safety first
Fold only clean, dry clothes. The grown-up takes them out of the dryer.
Clothes from a dryer can be warm. Let them cool a minute before you start.

Towels, shirts and pants, all stacked. Tomorrow you put it all away by owner, and Freddy reviews the week.

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