Monday, October 27, 2014

What is Community?

 

 

 

Students began discussing community and talked about their homes and where they live.

Students created their first draft of their home without using any visual aides. They were recalling from memory.

Student Z: "My house is gray."

Student T: "I live with my family."

 Student S: "I live in a tall building!" Students X: I live in a building that is tall too!

Student Y: "Me too, I live on the 8th floor! Students X and Y: "You live at my building!

Student L:" I know where that is, they live by me!"

 

 

Student R: "My house is Red."

 

Teacher: "How can we find our where you live?"

Student S:" We can use a map."

Student Z: "We can use a picture."

Teacher: "What is a map?"

Students S: "It shows us where to go!"

Students B: "It helps us find places!"

 

We used google earth to find out where students lived.

 

Student S: "That is from a plane."

Teacher: "Did you ever hear someone say from a birds eye view?"

Student C: "Yeah, that means it looks big for the bird."

Student S: "That picture is from the sky, they took it from an airplane."

 

Student C:" Hey, That is my house!"

 

 

    Student C: " Look, I live in this house,

this is where I live with my family!"

Wow, you found my house on the computer. Student D: That is his house!

Students: "I know where he lives, He lives by me!

Students are realizing they live by one another and that they are closer in the community than what they think. Students are discovering that they live by their friends and that they are by our school. They are understanding that they are part of something larger and that we are able to make connections to each other in the community. The students were talking about their houses with one another and telling their friends about their home and who they live with or the neighbors they live next to.

Student S:"do you see that tree by my house, Dad said it has to be cut down."
 You can not see my house because the tree is there, I play in the yard!"

Student D:" Can you move the picture? Teacher: "Why do you want me to move the picture?"

Student D: " I live farther down the street! That is my street, but not my house it is over there more."

Student D: "See there it is, its the blue one, Thank You!" Yep, That's it, that's my house."

 

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Fairy Tales

Students listened to and talked about the Fairy Tale "The Elves and the Shoemaker". They talked about how the Elves helped the shoemaker and his wife by making the shoes while they were sleeping. We also discussed the word tattered and why the Elves clothes looked the way they did.
Student R Said: "The word tattered means Broken." Student S said: " They have holes in them and are cut." Student N said: "They need new clothes they do not fit them anymore."
 Students understood the word tattered but were trying to make more sense out of why the Elves would help the shoemaker and his wife.
I asked the students to create something for the Elves since the Elves made the shoes for the shoemaker and the wife. Students S said: "The shoemaker and his wife made them clothes and shoes because they helped them get money.
Student N said: "They got them money and the people made the Elves clothes and shoes because they helped them."

My students then used the blocks to create something for the elves in return that they thought the elves would like or may need.

 

Student S: "we made a house so people have a fire so that they don't freeze. They are making decorations for the people.

"The elves are in the middle talking about the shoes", said student Y.

The elves are in the peoples house because they want their own house. We know what they are talking about because we could here them, said student S.

First we made a house then we turned it into a cake and then we made it into a house for the elves said student H.

We made them a fire to keep them warm said student C.

Students S: " Do you hear them?

Student Y: "No!"

Students S: "They are sleeping, sshhh!"

 

 

Wednesday, October 15 2014

Students are focusing on pets this week and how they have to be taken care of and the relationships and connections they make with families. The students read the Story Please, Puppy Please. I asked students to look at the picture and describe what they thought of when they looked at the illustration.

Student J: "He feels bigger than the sky!"
Student S: "They love each other."
Student Y: "Their hugging each other because the  puppy got the ball and finally listened."
Student M: "Brother, sister love the dog and the cat."
Student H: "Their having a hug."
Student Z: "They are happy."
Student A: "Their a happy family."

What do you think about your family and pets when you see this illustration?
 Student M: "Family"
Student N: " Yeah and Happy too!"
Students S: " I love my family!"
Student E and R: " I love my dog and I love my cat!"

The students were able to make a family and home connection with the story we discussed. They were excited to relate their lives and experiences with one another. We then used pattern blocks to create pets.

" I made a tiger striped cat!"

 

 

"We made a cat together!"