Construction - Learning???

 

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Mmmmmmm! What could you possibly learn with this??? 

 form 

structure

strength in design

shapes

social communities

collaborative design 

oral language

story writing

Mmmmmm!

Motivating writing

We drew some balloons on the ground and then lay down like they were carrying us away. It makes a great photo if you can get your position right. The children had so much fun. Couldn't wait to write their stories about it. So easy to do. There are heaps of ideas on chalk art if you google it. 

Where am I?

Positional language development.
Tell the story from the perspective of one of the animals.
What will happen next?
Record it for your blog.

Writing genres

 This is a great idea as a display for modelling, inspiring and inviting action for writing.

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Ouch!

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Write about a time you got hurt!

http://firstgradewow.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/ouch.html

Write a poem to develop language about when you get hurt.
 

Trash or Treasure

Found this original idea from: http://mrsleeskinderkids.blogspot.co.nz/2012/02/community-helpers-literacy-centers.html

I think this will work with the boys and will help make them check visually if it is a word or not. They could write their own words to write in their to check their own or a buddies writing skills.

Character development

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What a great way to integrate speech bubbles character description and deeper features for writing.

Faces

http://dabblesandbabbles.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Blank-Faces-original.pdf

Guess who game
Who dunnit

Develop that descriptive language for describing a character.
Link to enriching vocab for emotions and facial expressions.

Bottle Top Bugs

Bottle top art - awesome fine motor skills. Could link well into retell, creative story telling, and developing oral language skills. Each bug has its own personality. Extend the children to think about the needs of their bug - house, sleeping bag, transport.

Try making cakes instead of bugs.

http://pinterest.com/hilarywhite3/bottle-tops-plastic/

Sticky Ice cream Sticks

Ice cream sticks with velcro dots to make numbers, words, letters, architectural designs!!

http://tottreasuresnorthbay.blogspot.com/2012/01/easy-and-fun-diy.html

Chantel's Sunflowers

Last week I had a wonderful reliever in my class who provided the children with a large outline of a sunflower. The aim was to use ripped pieces of yellow and green paper to fill their flower outlines. They decided their goal was keeping in the lines which they all achieved very well. This one belongs to Chantel.

The next day at the writing station Chantel decided she would try to draw her own sunflower by herself. She also worked alongside another student to help her achieve the same goal. As you can see they used felts to colour in their beautiful sunflower sketches.

Day three at action stations, Chantel wanted to extend her idea further and drew a different sunflower design and used the collage technique to fill it. This time she worked alone. I can't wait to see what she will do next. I might aim her towards some technology and use the ipad or camera to create a different image again.