In my last post I shared how we'd begun learning about differences between the past and present through stories, props, and crafts. This past week our look at how daily life has changed over the last two hundred (or so) years continued to "weave" it's way into our literacy learning and forest exploration. I hope you enjoy this look at the children embroidering during quiet time,learning to weave an over/under pattern on cardboard looms and dipping candles.
In this next picture you can see students working as a group to make a list of all the things they could remember the Ox-Cart Man packing up to take to Portsmouth Market. In this activity we discussed how lists are a useful thing to be able to write and how when we say words slowly we can heard the sounds that different letters make and begin to spell. Look carefully at the white board in the photo and you will see that the Ox Cart Man's items have been spelled inventively. They've also been shaped out of modeling clay and loaded onto the carts!
Friday's forest exploration included some terrific teamwork and a bit of a mysterious happening. Take a look at the children moving a long log in an effort to reinforce the bridge. And, notice the small vertical hole that in the large tree? We discovered that if you slip a small object in it the object will come out the hole at the bottom!
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