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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ten frames are an important math tool in many pre-school, kindergarten, and first grade classrooms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, we include it in our calendar time. (We actually call it "together time", since we are together, and do all sorts of things ... I like to leave things open ended.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We know that a solid understanding of how "ten" can be taken apart and put together is crucial for successful future math learning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">• one to one correspondence </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">• to relate given numbers to 5 and/or 10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">• to count on from a random number </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">• to "see" a quantity in relation to 5 and/or 10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">• number bonds to 10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">• to build number sense to 10</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During our together time, we look at our calendar and chat about what is and will be happening in our classroom. (A couple of years ago I switched from a turn-the-date-over one month calendar to a <a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2015/09/changing--calendar-kindergarten.html">full year calendar on the wall</a>. It is well worth the investment in wall space.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We also count how many days we have been in school. Every day we add a stick to the ones container, make a tally mark, change the numeral, and last year, we added a ten frame to our routine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every day the helper adds a sticker to the ten frame. (You could also use marker, bingo dabber or glue/velcro little pictures.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We can instantly see </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">• how many days we have been in school</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">•</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>how many days we have been in school that month</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">•</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>how many more days until zero the hero visits our classroom again</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I noticed that our spontaneous math conversations increased as a result of adding the ten frames to our school days counting routine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I believe that the kids' understanding of "ten", and their independent use of ten frames for counting, increased as a result of our daily addition to our days in school ten frames. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Good outcomes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I could not find ten frames that were exactly what I wanted (simple, no clutter - so that the stickers were the focus of attention), so I made my own. Two frames per page - up to 200.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Click on the photo to print a copy for yourself. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Or you might prefer the ten frames with only the numeral and not the printed number word. Click [<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N8cW63z2dXAJV4QZM9Th2lg6HizoS6Un/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>] to get a copy from google docs. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N8cW63z2dXAJV4QZM9Th2lg6HizoS6Un/view?usp=sharing" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="3046" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTwXi_2bm0v6YSXZ_ueXz6c0aI0b-4aDhxSjxE6nqeWfoahG0fejp7_pwfccKvApTGBUq4s-8ujblZjqm5CHVdT3bQlJYlYvaEg15PE0-i-UcN7ltfoaFgMQlkk1-ZHW2jX6JOLkZLkxpe-QqQ9s46gIYdwVrCb4PkXrJtMrKcp9U7BbsRRb6lhbXg/w398-h400/ten_frame_numbers_rubberbootselfshoes.jpeg" width="398" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">
Ten frames can be used in so many ways for pre-school, kindergarten and grade one learners. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocking Dan Teaching Man has written a song and put together this video showing the number bonds for 10. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We took <a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2016/04/counting-outside-in-forest.html">ten frame paper bags</a> outside to the forest to find 100 items to count and sort for 100 day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are some other free ten frame printables and activities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">pencil ten frame activity - </span><a href="http://thekindergartenconnection.com/pencil-ten-frame-activity/" style="font-family: inherit;">the Kindergarten Connection</a></span></div>
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falling leaves ten frame match - <a href="http://www.playdoughtoplato.com/free-ten-frame-matching-game/">Playdough to Plato</a></div>
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astronaut ten frame match - the <a href="http://thekindergartenconnection.com/astronaut-ten-frame-matching-game/">Kindergarten Connection</a></div>
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roll and colour ten frames - <a href="http://boymamateachermama.com/2015/10/05/teacher-mama-free-roll-and-cover-games/">Boy Mama Teacher Mama</a></div>
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lego math ten frame grid activities - <a href="http://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/lego-math-ten-frame-grid-activity-grid-make-10/">Little Bins for Little Hands</a></div>
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ten frame toss -<a href="http://mrsriccaskindergarten.blogspot.ca/2012/01/ten-frame-toss-freebie.html"> Mrs. Ricca's Kindergarten</a><br />
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play dough: play dough: kelly green Wilton food dye, green and blue glitter<br />
underpants - laminated<br />
cut garland, cut straws<br />
buttons<br />
pipe cleaners, strange shapes<br />
wiggly eyes<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">play dough: yellow wilton food dye, lemon essential oil and gold glitter</span><br />
lids, buttons, and a few clear and white gems<br />
black, yellow and white pipe cleaners,<br />
hexagon and long diamond pattern blocks,<br />
sticks,small pieces of driftwood,<br />
wooden beads,<br />
flowers,<br />
rolling pins, honey dippers<br />
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play dough: red icing dye with red and gold glitter<br />
red and yellow craft sticks<br />
red, gold and black cut up bead garland<br />
red and black buttons<br />
red gems and diamonds<br />
red and yellow lids<br />
gold coins (would love to get some Chinese coins)<br />
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<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2013/02/chinese-lanterns.html" target="_blank">make Chinese lantern art</a><br />
<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2014/02/chinese-new-year-sensory-bin.html" target="_blank">create a Lunar New Year sensory bin</a><br />
<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2013/02/chinese-writing.html" target="_blank">learn some Chinese writing</a><br />
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play dough: kelly green Wilton food dye, green and blue glitter<br />
buttons<br />
gems<br />
cut up garland<br />
gold and silver decorations<br />
mini cookie cutters<br />
tree cookie cutters (many available at Bulk Barn)<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">play dough: purple food dye, purple and fuchsia glitter, lavender essential oil</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">big dinosaurs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">little dinosaurs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">little rocks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">bigger rocks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">sticks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">glass gems</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2013/06/dinosaur-sensory-bin.html" target="_blank">make a dinosaur bones sensory bin</a></span><br />
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play dough: copper food dye, nutmeg and cinnamon, gold glitter</div>
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plastic leaves from the Thrift Shop</div>
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gold and copper garland</div>
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small sticks</div>
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fall coloured buttons</div>
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fall table scatter/vase filler from Michaels</div>
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play dough: recipe from <a href="http://mamapapabubba.com/2013/12/18/super-fragrant-no-cook-gingerbread-play-dough/">Mama.Papa.Bubba.</a> with the addition of copper and gold glitter<br />
buttons<br />
gems<br />
cut up garland<br />
mini cookie cutters<br />
gingerbread friends cookie cutters<br />
extra plates and trays for cooking and serving cookies<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">play dough: kelly green Wilton food dye, green and blue glitter</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">golf tees, rocks, caps, marker lids, pattern blocks</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">popsicle sticks, cut up garland, wooden cubes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">in white (sharp white teeth)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">purple (straggly purple hair)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">yellow (little yellow eyes)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">teal (long bluish-greenish nose)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">red (big red mouth)</span><br />
green (big green face)<br />
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<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2012/11/big-green-monster.html" target="_blank">Go Away Big Green Monster art and story activity</a><br />
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reused the gingerbread play dough<br />
purple - lids, craft sticks - prickles all over his back<br />
green -lid, beads, buttons - wart at the end of his nose<br />
white - glass gems, rocks, shells, lids, golf tees - claws, horns, teeth<br />
orange - lids, glass gems - eyes<br />
brown lids, beads, glass gems - fur<br />
black - lids, spools, glass gems - tongue<br />
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<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2013/04/how-to-make-gruffalo-crumble.html" target="_blank">enjoy some Gruffalo Crumble</a><br />
<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2018/02/gruffalo-story-elements-printable.html" target="_blank">learn story elements with <u>The Gruffalo</u></a><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: medium;">green and nature play dough creations</span></u><br />
play dough: green with bitter<br />
cedar boughs<br />
twigs (arbutus)<br />
red twigs<br />
ferns<br />
cedar branches<br />
nuts (with the shell on)<br />
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<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2013/03/march-sensory-bin.html" target="_blank">create a green sensory bin</a><br />
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play dough: purple food dye, purple and fuchsia glitter, lavender essential oil</div>
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eyeballs and googly eyes</div>
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plastic spiders and critters<br />
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play dough: rose food dye, strawberry flavouring, lots of glitter in all colours<br />
cut up garland<br />
cut up straws<br />
coloured blocks<br />
lids<br />
gems and sparkles<br />
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play dough: blue Wilton's food dye</div>
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small aquarium rocks</div>
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assortment of Toob sea creatures</div>
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ocean coloured gems</div>
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laminated ocean pictures from <a href="http://nurturestore.co.uk/printable-sea-creatures-ocean-play-dough">Nurture Store</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">coffee play dough - recipe from <a href="https://www.themaven.net/kidsactivities/recipes/mud-like-coffee-playdough-Eh7zc_4iY0uqlDdTdgSbgA/" target="_blank">Kids Activities</a></span><br />
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play dough: bleached flour play dough, iridescent glitter</div>
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play dough: black liquid watercolour and food dye, blue and gold glitter, tiny stars<br />
space printables from <a href="http://picklebums.com/space-crazy/">Picklebums</a><br />
plastic astronaut figures<br />
cut up garland<br />
glass gems, beach glass, plastic disks from Christmas tree garland<br />
star cookie cutters<br />
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play dough: purple food dye, purple and fushsia glitter, lavender essential oil<br />
googly eyes<br />
black, orange and purple pipe cleaners<br />
cut up straws<br />
laminated paper spiders<br />
plastic spiders<br />
next time will add small sticks and cut up bead garland<br />
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<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2016/11/coffee-filter-spider-webs.html" target="_blank">spider web art activity</a><br />
<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2015/10/spider-web-art-project.html" target="_blank">another spider web art activity</a><br />
<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2016/10/spiders-and-waterspouts-in-sand-table.html" target="_blank">spiders and spouts in the sand table</a><br />
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sticks (a variety of sticks, driftwood, cedar and juniper boughs)</div>
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play dough: buttercup Wilton's food dye, lemon essence and gold glitter<br />
gems, buttons,wooden blocks, shells, lids and other loose parts<br />
in yellow, green, black, brown and ivory<br />
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<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2014/08/sunflower-sensory-bin.html" target="_blank">create a beautiful sunflower sensory bin</a><br />
<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2013/07/mr-van-gogh-you-paint-good-sunflowers.html" target="_blank">paint sunflowers like Vincent Van Gogh</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">play dough: blue food dye, blue glitter, lavender essential oil</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">recycled lids</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">buttons</span><br />
building disks<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">cut up big straws</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">cut up garland</span><br />
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cut up pipe cleaners<br />
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<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2017/12/todd-parr-books-read-and-create-with.html" target="_blank">more Todd Parr inspired feeling and faces activities</a><br />
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play dough: pink play dough with red and pink sparkles<br />
cedar boughs<br />
twigs (arbutus)<br />
red twigs<br />
leaves<br />
googly eyes<br />
glass gem hearts<br />
cut up heart garland<br />
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<div><br /></div><div>First step is to <b>paint paper plate green</b>. I find that the best ones, are the super cheap, will barely hold potato chips paper plates. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBXL5SlfOdufrguthciI3SLZGwbORyELWdMMCC7k7vG5zpa81p0KgB8R7zt0LS9HWaMV9jDFQVOmj8lqjX6bHzMYnARsQfYlXGvRc381QW-l4_hF4uNrYVpJg9ozIyCAFpS1qHmX0pobQ/s2048/december_countdown_paper_plate.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1648" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBXL5SlfOdufrguthciI3SLZGwbORyELWdMMCC7k7vG5zpa81p0KgB8R7zt0LS9HWaMV9jDFQVOmj8lqjX6bHzMYnARsQfYlXGvRc381QW-l4_hF4uNrYVpJg9ozIyCAFpS1qHmX0pobQ/w517-h640/december_countdown_paper_plate.jpg" width="517" /></a></div>
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I cut the plates into <b>3 triangles</b> and glued them together to make a <b>tree shape</b>. If I was not madly painting and prepping in the last days of November, the kids could do these steps. <br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;">When I first did this project with the kids, I did it as a countdown - if we had 15 days of school in December, I put numbers 1-15 on the tree.</div></div><div>
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Each day the kids <b>add one sticky shape</b>. </div>
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No cotton balls. No loops. Minimal prep. The kidlets like it.<br />
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Yup, orange, round things, grow on a vine, used to make jack-o-lanterns.</span><br />
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First the kidlets measured themselves on the pumpkin measuring chart. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUMWnIYOb_Jh3kbmOLcEhCti0UMy3WXqkL0kN4XL0p875MdjBBc54-NRtQCLs0Za2614scJYICCuht2EP5dhg39dY4Ye1RL5MKvhUqLH-luSR59bzGS6nT1w3JjlkdXnydM7iRmKnLiY/s1542/pumpkins_tall_rubber_boots_elf_shoes+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1542" data-original-width="1042" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUMWnIYOb_Jh3kbmOLcEhCti0UMy3WXqkL0kN4XL0p875MdjBBc54-NRtQCLs0Za2614scJYICCuht2EP5dhg39dY4Ye1RL5MKvhUqLH-luSR59bzGS6nT1w3JjlkdXnydM7iRmKnLiY/w432-h640/pumpkins_tall_rubber_boots_elf_shoes+.jpg" width="432" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our very tall principal even got in on the measuring fun!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Each child recorded their p</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">umpkin height. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Click [<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8zQt5GjhY1-RnVPT2d6dkZkX1U/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-fWDKbhCeSi34o_mbVNxLDw" target="_blank">here</a>] for </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">your free download. It make a great class book.</span></div></div>
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In the afternoon we measured with pumpkin measuring sticks.</span><br /><br />
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As we were<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2017/08/snails.html" target="_blank"> investigating snails</a>, the children were surprised to learn that a famous artist was intrigued by the same garden snails that caught our imagination. </div>
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Matisse's daughter said that her father made many drawings of snails, and that his work <u>The Snail </u>(1953) came out of these drawings.<br />
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Before we we ready to paint with scissors like Matisse, we did some reading.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">We learned that Matisse became a lawyer when he grew up, just like </span><a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2018/04/kandinsky-inspired-snail-art.html" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Kandinsky</a><span style="text-align: left;">. When he was 30, Matisse was ill, and his mother gave him some art supplies so that he had something to do while he was recovering. Again, like Kandinsky, he decided to give up being a lawyer and become an artist. As he grew older, Matisse was bedridden and could no longer paint. Instead he painted with scissors and created bold, colourful art with painted cutouts. </span><br />
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author and illustrator - Jo Saxton</div>
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publisher - Frances Lincoln Children Books (2010)</div>
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authors - Jeong yi Kee and Hangul Ddang</div>
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illustrator - Mi-ran Yang</div>
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English edition edited by - Scott Forbes</div>
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publisher - big and SMALL (2016)</div>
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<b>creating snails inspired by Matisse</b><br />
We began our snail art by cutting the edges off 81/2x11" paper, and glueing it onto brightly coloured background paper, creating a frame.<br />
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The children chose a snail "body"</div>
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cut it into a snail body shape.</div>
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and glued it onto their framed background. </div>
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I drew a snail spiral on the paper (if the artist requested one).</div>
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Then it was time for snail shell glueing. </div>
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There were pattern snails.</div>
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Snails with all the colours. </div>
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All bright, beautiful and full of movement. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Button blankets are an important part of Pacific NorthWest Indigenous culture. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">In British Columbia classrooms, we endeavour to bring </span><a href="http://first nations principles of learning" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">First Nations Principles of Learning</a><span style="text-align: left;"> into the daily life and culture of our classroom and school communities.</span></div>
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Learning about the artistry and significance of button blankets is one of the ways that we recognize and honour indigenous knowledge in our classroom.<br />
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Beautifully adorned blankets are worn as capes at ceremonial events. The crest on the back tells about the wearer's family. The blankets tell the story of people, places and events. They tell of the wearers position, roles and responsibilities in the community. They are a unique way of "learning and knowing" (<a href="https://finearts.uvic.ca/research/project/button-blanket/" target="_blank">Fine Arts, UVic</a>).<br />
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They are powerful statements of identity. <a href="http://www.yukonmuseums.ca/treasures/gj/14.html" target="_blank">Yukon Museum</a><br />
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Over the holidays, I saw a button blanket doll tree ornament. Since it was well above my budget for <a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/p/sensory-bins.html" target="_blank">sensory bin additions </a>, and it looked pretty straightforward, I decided to make some myself.<br />
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As I was making these clothespin dolls, I was thinking that they made fine tree ornaments, but I wanted something that could stand up to add to my <a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2013/08/button-blanket-sensory-bin.html" target="_blank">button blanket sensory bin</a> and for small world play.<br />
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Peg dolls were the answer.<br />
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These are pretty straight forward to make - no need to be super crafty!<br />
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red felt (thicker, better quality felt is a good idea - having something with "weight" for the blanket works best<br />
black felt (dollar store felt is fine for this)<br />
black wool (for hair)<br />
black acrylic paint (for "angel" style peg doll only)<br />
sequins (I used iridescent - silver could work too)<br />
good scissors<br />
craft glue<br />
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two ways to make button blanket dolls<br />
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for a "giant" peg doll - ordered from <a href="https://www.stockade.ca/Giant-Person--3-916-tall_p_5942.html" target="_blank">Stockade</a><br />
1. Cut the dress out of black felt and the cape out of red felt.<br />
2. Cut out decorative strips of felt for the dress and cape. I looked at the diameter of the sequins I was going to use, and determined the width from that.<br />
3. Using craft glue, glue the decorative strips and sequins onto the dress and the cape. Allow a few minutes for the glue to dry.<br />
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4. Cover the peg doll's body with craft glue,<br />
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and attach the black dress.<br />
5. Cut out and glue on the crest for the back of the button blanket cape. Add sequins or "bling" where inspiration dictates.<br />
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6. Find the centre of the cape - put a thick line of glue down the centre of the cape - attach to the back of the peg doll.<br />
7. Put a good sized drop of glue on the inside top corners of the cape, and attach to the front of the doll.<br />
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8. Cut a number of 3 inch lengths of black wool for hair. Glue them onto the peg doll head. Glue wool onto the back of the head.</div>
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9. I would destroy the doll if I tried to add any facial features, so I didn't.<br />
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for an angel peg doll - ordered from <a href="https://www.stockade.ca/Angel--3-12-tall_p_135.html" target="_blank">Stockade</a></div>
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(I don't have step by step photos for this doll - but I am sure that you can extrapolate from the previous doll)</div>
1. Paint the doll's body with acrylic black paint.<br />
2. Glue on red trim and sequins.<br />
3. Cut out red cape and black crest.<br />
4. Glue black crest and sequins onto the cape with craft glue.<br />
5. Find the centre of the cape - put a thick line of glue down the centre of the cape - attach to the back of the peg doll.<br />
6. Put a good sized drop of glue on the inside top corners of the cape, and attach to the front of the doll.<br />
7. Glue additional sequins onto the front of the cape as inspiration dictates.<br />
8. Glue on wool hair.<br />
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Please click [<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ZeU3etbORy-nQ-BhPcpftBiEnM2qKjY/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>] or on the graphic for a free pattern printable. Remember, this is a starting point for your creativity.<br />
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The images are from <a href="http://abed.sd79.bc.ca/curriculum-resourcess/coast-salish-image-library/" target="_blank">School District 79's Aboriginal Education</a> page on the school district website. They are available for anyone to use for educational purposes.<br />
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I chose the orca because it was the right shape for the blanket, and it looked manageable to cut out a small image. I have included the sizes that I used on the pattern page.<br />
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<u>other button blanket resources</u><br />
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summary: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open_sans_reg" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In 1935, a nine-year-old boy's family held a forbidden Potlatch in faraway Kingcome Inlet. Watl'kina slipped from his bed to bear witness. In the Big House masked figures danced by firelight to the beat of the drum. And there, he saw a figure he knew. Indigenous elder Alfred Scow and award-winning author Andrea Spalding collaborate to tell the story, to tell the secret of the dance. (<a href="https://www.orcabook.com/Secret-of-the-Dance-P451.aspx" target="_blank">Orca Books </a>)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open_sans_reg" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Orca Books has compiled some <a href="https://www.orcabook.com/Assets/PDFs/Guides/secretofthedance.pdf" target="_blank">teacher resources</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open_sans_reg" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I have "read the pictures" with my students, but I find the book is better suited to students grade 3 or older. </span><br />
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Last year we did this project as part of our learning inspired by <a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2018/05/bc-core-competency-self-assessment-with.html" target="_blank">The 6 Cedars</a> by Margot Landahl. I had cutouts of each of the animals from the book (wolf, raven, salmon, beaver, bear and orca), and the children were asked to chose the one that they felt represented their strength. </div>
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<a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2013/08/button-blanket-sensory-bin.html" target="_blank">button blanket sensory bin</a><br />
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When the winter dark sets in, I like to to "twinkle up" our classroom with stars.<br />
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We read about the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28250985-the-darkest-dark" target="_blank">darkest dark with Commander Chris Hadfield</a>, learned how <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/991607.Franklin_In_The_Dark" target="_blank">Franklin the turtle</a> turned on his nightlight (when no one was looking) because he was afraid of small dark places - and then we learned how to draw a star with Eric Carle.<br />
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<u>Draw Me a Star</u> is one of Eric Carle's lesser knows books.<br />
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<b>Summary:</b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">"Draw me a star. And the artist drew a star. It was a good star. Draw me a sun, said the star. And the artist drew a sun." And on the artist draws, bringing the world to life picture by beautiful picture until he is spirited across the night sky by a star that shines on all he has made. In "Draw Me a Star," Eric Carle celebrates the imagination in all of us with a beguiling story about a young artist who creates a world of light and possibility. A remarkable, quintessentially simple book encompassing Creation, creativity, and the cycle of life within the eternal. -- "Kirkus Reviews," <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/532238.Draw_Me_a_Star" target="_blank">GoodReads</a></span><br />
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full disclosure - <u>Draw Me a Star</u> is on a list of books contested and banned in schools and library; there are biblical themes (although, I would be surprised if my students picked up on it) and a Eric Carle style depiction of a naked man and woman. Not graphic, but enough to know it was a man and a woman. We have "know the names of body parts including private parts" on our curriculum - so it would not have posed a problem for us - but the copy of the book that I borrowed from the school library had already been censored!!<br />
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Back to the creating.<br />
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I wanted Eric Carle style art - painted paper collage -- and sparkle.<br />
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Painting on tin foil was the sparkle solution.<br />
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The kids used paint brushes to make random dots on their tin foil. Finger prints would have also worked, but I want not into that much hand washing. Sometimes a paintbrush can save sanity. </div>
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When the painted tin foil was dry, I cut it into strips. </div>
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The kids each chose a star, pre-cut and made of poster board. (If we had a longer timeline, or the children were older, they would have drawn and cut out their own stars). </div>
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The children cut their tinfoil strips into little pieces, and glued them onto their star. </div>
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When the glue was dry, I cut off the excess tin foil.</div>
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The last step was to add some beads before hanging them up. (I could not find the string that I bought to hang up the stars, so we improvised and used unbent paper clips. Worked like a charm.)</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">The beginning of a new year is a good time to take stock, reflect on the past </span></div>
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In kindergarten that seems to mean drawing a portrait for the portfolio, so that the adults can see the change, growth and development since the last self portrait. </div>
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We created these line drawing self portraits with a #oneword in January, but they could be created at the beginning of the school year as well.<br />
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We started with our background papers. A soft and gentle (and fun) beginning.</div>
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It's fun to paint. It's even more fun to paint with unconventional tools. This time we chose fly swatters. Pretty fly swatters. </div>
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The kids chose their background paper colour, their paint colour and their fly swatter, and whacked away. </div>
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They were all colourful and textured. And individual. </div>
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Portrait time.<br />
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We did a practice drawing with pencils on recycled paper. Then we were ready for black markers.<br />
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I made the kids' portrait paper by copying and pasting their names and printing in grey. </div>
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Before the kids drew their portrait with black markers, we talked about heads, bodies, arms, legs, hair, faces - all the important portrait parts. </div>
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When the portraits were complete, I cut them out ready for gluing onto the backgrounds.<br />
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Then it was time to add the #oneword.<br />
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#oneword is a different way of looking at New Year's (or any time) resolutions. Instead of a list of goals/plans/hopes/ideas, you chose one word to focus on for the year. Read about it <a href="http://oneword365.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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To put it into kindergarten friendly language, I said that it was "a word that comes from our heads and our hearts, that we can focus on every day, all year long".<br />
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And they got it. We brainstormed ideas, and I printed them on our white board.<br />
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We had been noticing how words are printed in different ways to tell us how to read them and what feeling to have. (think Pigeon and Elephant and Piggie)<br />
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I chose six different fonts for the children to choose from. I asked them to choose a font that went with their #oneword.<br />
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Doesn't this font work perfectly for a little girl who is doing her best to be brave?</div>
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Such wonderful expressions of individuality, creativity, growth and hope.<br />
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Salmon are amazing creatures. </div>
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Any creature who jumps up waterfalls in order to get back to their birthplace is worth learning about. </div>
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<u>Salmon Stream</u> by Carol Reed-Jones is an ideal picture book to help young children learn about the life cycle of the salmon. </div>
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publisher: Dawn Publications, 2001</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Learning Magazine Teachers’ Choice Award</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>summary</b> Fast-paced prose and brilliant illustrations follow the salmon from their form as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">eggs in a stream to the wide ocean, eventually making a hazardous journey home to their stream of origin. As in her earlier best-selling book, The Tree in the Ancient Forest, author Carol Reed-Jones uses cumulative verse--a literary technique that is not only enjoyable but suggests how interconnected salmon are with their habitat. At the back is a section on salmon facts and what makes a good habitat for them, teaching the basics of ecology and why clean streams and waters are so important. -- <a href="https://dawnpub.com/our-books/salmon-stream/#description" target="_blank">Dawn Publications</a></span></div>
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After reading the book, we got ready to code our friendly salmon from the ocean back to the stream where she was born, so that she could lay her eggs (and die).<br />
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We got our our coding grid.<br />
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I made it out of a heavy piece of paper and marked the squares with electrical tape.<br />
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Before we could code our fish "home", we had to create the journey.<br />
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What would be in between the ocean and her gravel bed -- the kids really wanted a waterfall, fish ladders, a tunnel/culvert.<br />
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How could we represent a waterfall, or fish ladders? Loose parts to the rescue. The kids made a lego fish ladder, and a blue scarf and tin cans became a waterfall. Driftwood and building blocks completed the "obstacles".<br />
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Then we started talking predators. Kindergarten kids can be pretty blood thirsty! But it made for more interesting coding, so ... we had a mama bear and 2 cubs, an eagle, a couple orca, a seal and a shark. The kids were a bit frustrated that the ocean animals had to stay in the ocean. But we had to think like scientists.<br />
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Once the grid was all set up, we were ready to get our salmon to her spawning grounds.<br />
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We code with arrows. Click [<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AF5_xsFdIy2qXsQl8khxOX2ken6ez6k7" target="_blank">here</a>] to print the set that I made to go with the grid.<br />
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Each child had a turn to put an arrow on the grid to help our mama salmon get upstream.<br />
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There was lots of discussion how to best make the journey.</div>
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Sometimes a wrong turn was made, and we had to "debug" the code. </div>
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Just before our salmon was about to be coded to her spawning ground there was a shout - "eggs, we need red eggs". There was a bit of a scurry around the classroom as a gaggle of children looked around to see what could be salmon eggs. Red beads. Then we needed gravel. And still water. </div>
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We loved listening to <a href="https://bobsandlolo.com/" target="_blank">Bobs and Lolo</a> sing Run Salmon Run. There's also an <a href="http://bobsandlolo.com/rsr/" target="_blank">app</a>. Full disclosure - the song can get stuck in your head ... for days.<br />
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Reading <a href="https://deltalearns.ca/thesixcedars/" target="_blank"><u>The Six Cedar Trees</u> by Margot Sandahl and Celeste Aleck</a>, made us think about cedar trees.</div>
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They are all around us, but we hadn't really stopped to look at them with curiosity and creativity. </div>
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As we looked carefully at the cedars in our school yard, we saw their beauty -- and wanted to make some art.<br />
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We looked at the colours of the Celeste Aleck's illustrations and the colours of a cedar tree, and chose to use soft blue, grey, browns and greens.</div>
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First we tried painting the paper to make the browns look like bark, and the blues and greys look like winter clouds. We all agreed that everything just looked like a puddle. </div>
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We looked at the cedar we had collected to use for printing - and there was our solution. We would paint with cedar branches. A combination of blue and grey and brown.</div>
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When we looked at the cedar beaches we saw that they were slightly different shades of green. Since everyone likes choice, we mixed colours to make light green, yellow green, and dark green, as well as what we called, medium green.</div>
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Time to make the print. The artist chose how the painted branch would fit onto their cedar painted background. We put a clean paper on top to keep everything from moving, and then rolled with the brayer on the paper. </div>
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They are designed to underpin and arch over all learning K - 12.<br />
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<u>The Six Cedar Trees</u> is a book built on the Core Competencies.<br />
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<u>The Six Cedar Trees</u></div>
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by: Margot Landahl and Celestine Aleck</div>
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publisher: Strong Nations Publishing, 2017</div>
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summary: Eagle perches himself in a grove of cedar trees high above a school playground. He explores the characteristics of 6 different Pacific Northwest animals and connects them with strengths we grow in ourselves (the core competencies).<br />
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<u>The Six Cedar Trees</u> is a wonderful way to introduce and reinforce the core competencies. It provides a vehicle to bring the core competencies into the life of the classroom - to "Notice It, Name It, Nurture It".<br />
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The Six Cedar Trees has a <a href="https://deltalearns.ca/thesixcedars/" target="_blank">wonderful, full of good ideas website</a> for teaching that supports the core competencies.<br />
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We started slowly. <br />
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On our first day with <u>The Six Cedar Trees</u>, we went to our school forest and read about the eagle flying high in the sky, coming to rest in a grove of cedar trees, and looking down on a school playground.<br />
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We were inspired to get to know some of our local cedar trees.<br />
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We introduced ourselves to cedars by feeling (and creating with) bark texture.<br />
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We lay on the ground at the base of a cedar tree and looked waaaaay up. </div>
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We wrapped our arms around an old growth beauty to give it a hug (and see which was bigger, us or the tree - we were identical).</div>
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As we continue to learn about cedar trees, we continued reading the next section of <u>The Six Cedar Trees</u>. We read about Wolf; Wolf is a great communicator. </div>
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Over a week, we incorporated Wolf's communicator traits into our classroom language. We were intentional in sharing our ideas, listening respectfully, and taking care of the pack - all like Wolf. </div>
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Just before we we did our Communication Core Competency self assessment (last thing on a Friday afternoon - I knew I was flirting with insanity), I put up a Wolf poster </div>
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and asked the kids to remind me how Wolf was a good communicator. And they told me. They got it! On a Friday afternoon! Cue the happy dance. </div>
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Back to the self assessment... We are all working towards being great communicator like Wolf. Some of us are a little bit good, some of us are pretty good and some of us are very good. Where ever we are, we can all keep practicing and getting better at sharing ideas and listening respectfully.</div>
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The kids coloured the wolf that corresponded with their self assessment.</div>
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When I looked through them after school, I saw that some of the kids who find it difficult to share their thoughts and ideas, self assessed as "pretty good" rather than "very good". Some children acknowledged that their listening skills could use some practice. Pretty impressive for 5 year olds.<br />
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Click below to download self assessments for all 6 core competencies - and a cover page and explanation page for parents/families.<br />
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A French Immersion teacher in my district translated the self assessments into French for her class. <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1byMyIpUZnH79Hz-pVTxXotPKbCopANXm" target="_blank">Download a French Core Competencies Self-Assessment</a>. Thanks Vicki. </div>
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Visuals are so important to early learners.<br />
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Click to download a <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OF_Ulplo2eG1lEWozwZCUO2vUFA17Pd0" target="_blank">set of posters</a> to go with each animal and core competency.<br />
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Print them on 11 x 17" paper. I backed mine with red construction paper to make them really pop.<br />
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If like me, you have kids who like to colour (it is very calming), here are some<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fH4WVQECJAxVUkljM98B3jfDABrufY7-" target="_blank"> colouring sheets</a>.<br />
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All of the Coast Salish animal images are from the <a href="http://abed.sd79.bc.ca/curriculum-resourcess/coast-salish-image-library/" target="_blank">School District 79 (Cowichan) website.</a> While the images belong to the artists that created them, (Stuart Pagaduan and Maynard Johnny) they are available for educational use.<br />
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<b>helpful resources</b></div>
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<u>The Six Cedar Trees </u>is available from <a href="https://www.strongnations.com/store/item_display.php?i=6613" target="_blank">Strong Nations</a>. They also carry a <a href="https://www.strongnations.com/store/item_display.php?i=6693" target="_blank">large poster</a> with all the animals, and a <a href="https://www.strongnations.com/store/item_display.php?i=6693" target="_blank">set of 6 smaller posters</a>, each with one animal. </div>
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<a href="https://www.strongnations.com/store/item_display.php?i=6254" target="_blank">Animals of the Salish Sea</a> offers Coast Salish teaching about local animals beside some kid-friendly animal facts - with amazing art work. There is also a set of flash cards. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23789238-sometimes-i-feel-like-a-fox" target="_blank">Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox</a> </u>-- <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">In this introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals, young children explain why they identify with different creatures such as a deer, beaver or moose. Delightful illustrations show the children wearing masks representing their chosen animal, while the few lines of text on each page work as a series of simple poems throughout the book. (from GoodReads)</span></span><br />
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Have you used other books/resources to support the core competencies and self assessment - I would love to hear about them.<br />
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Who would have guessed that the common garden snail would inspire great art.<br />
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As part of our <a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2017/08/snails.html" target="_blank">snail inquiry/investigation/curiosity/learning</a>, we wondered about how we could be snail inspired artists.<br />
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When we did some research, we discovered that we were not the first to be inspired to creation by the garden snail.<br />
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While Kandinsky was not inspired by snails, hid work Farbstudie definitely inspires snail art.<br />
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We read <u>The Noisy Paintbox</u>.<br />
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author - Barb Rosenstock</div>
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illustrator - Mary GrandPre</div>
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publisher - Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2014</div>
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We learned that Kandinsky had an unusual condition that caused him to hear sounds when he saw different colours. When he grew up, h tried to be a lawyer like his family wanted - but that did not make his heart happy. He tried to paint like other famous painters, but that did not make his heart happy either. When he painted, playing with colours and shapes, then his heart was happy. </div>
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After investigating snail shells (and <a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2017/08/snails.html" target="_blank">learning about snails</a>) and looking at how Kandinsky's played with colours in his painting Farbstudie, the kids used water colour paint pucks to paint Kandinsky circles.<br />
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Like Kandinsky, they were thoughtful about colour choices and placement. </div>
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The finished snail shells were a work of art in their own right. I almost did not want to put them onto snail bodies.</div>
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I drew snail bodies for the kids - they wanted to focus on the colour and painting rather than the shape of their snail body.</div>
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The snail bodies ranged the colour of the rainbow - and rainbow coloured. (Don't you love the artist's concentration and thought about her work.)</div>
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The kids attached the snail to the shell.</div>
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We find Kandinsky inspiring. Click on the photo to see our other Kandinsky inspired projects.<br />
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We also like snails. </div>
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One of our favourite books is Julia Donaldson's <u>The Gruffalo</u>. All right - it's one of <u>my</u> favourite books - but my enthusiasm is contagious - so the kids love it too.<br />
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As well as being a perfect story for <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1013383.The_Gruffalo" target="_blank">reading</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gruffalo_(film)" target="_blank">watching</a> (the BBCOne production is delightful), and <a href="http://stimulatinglearning.co.uk/2015/03/gruffalo/" target="_blank">retelling</a> -- it is also a perfect story for learning story elements.<br />
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After a number of experiences and opportunities to enjoy and "play" with the story of The Gruffalo, we started chatting about the setting. Where does the story take place. </div>
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Julia Donaldson makes that easy for us. </div>
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The first line of the book is:</div>
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A Mouse took a stroll through the Deep Dark Woods. </div>
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We created a Deep Dark Woods. </div>
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Click on the graphic to print it - I created it to be printed on 11 x 17" paper.</div>
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We talked about what needed to be in the Deep Dark Woods. Trees. Obviously. A stream. A logpile house. An underground house. </div>
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We used a combination of green paper and crayons to create the Deep Dark Woods. </div>
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A setting needs characters to begin to make a story. One again, The Gruffalo makes it easy: 2 main characters, and 3 supporting characters.<br />
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Click below to print out the characters on letter size paper.<br />
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I cut the characters out for the children since I wanted their energy and focus to go towards adding the character to the deep dark woods, rather than on cutting. </div>
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For our third lesson, we reviewed setting and characters, and added the plot. </div>
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Click [<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pXna17J3sS3j8GzTHbTTFhWpcpZdPxhM/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>] or on the graphic below to print on letter sized paper. Or enlarge to tabloid if that works better for your children.<br />
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Attached to the file is the setting and the character names to cut out and glue in the correct boxes. Or your students could print. </div>
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Summarizing a plot to its beginning, middle and end, is a difficult task for kindergarten kids. It requires summarizing skills - and that is hard for Littles. </div>
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We figured out the beginning, middle and end as a class. (The graphics were a bit of a clue!) Older children could summarize individually or in groups, and/or do the printing themselves.<br />
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There is so much fun (and learning) to be had with The Gruffalo.<br />
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enjoy some of Mouse's favourite foods</div>
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<a href="https://www.twinkl.ca/resource/t-t-2544757-gruffalo-tea-recipe-to-support-teaching-on-the-gruffalos-child" target="_blank">Gruffalo Tea</a> and <a href="http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/zucchini-chocolate-cake-18693" target="_blank">Gruffalo Cake</a> (I figured the zucchini would count as poisonous wart!)</div>
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create with Gruffalo inspired play dough</div>
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scroll down to the Gruffalo play dough and loose parts (alphabetical order)<br />
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enjoy some offline coding created by <a href="https://jdaniel4smom.com/2017/02/code-activity-kids-gruffalo-themed-coding-sheet.html" target="_blank">JDaniel4'sMom</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I <i>love</i> the book <b>Go Away Big Green Monster. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a classic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I cannot imagine <i>not</i> reading it with my kindergarten kids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After reading it, you just <i>have</i> have to make your own big green monsters. </span></div>
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">We start with a bit of a twist on the green circle face. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We do green blob painting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every single one of our big green faces is unique. And they are all fabulous. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next we add scraggly hair. A string tied to the end of a popsicle stick. We make it "dance" where we want hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The monster needs the rest of its face - 2 eyes, a long nose, a mouth and sharp white teeth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I cut 1 1/2 by 3 inch rectangles, and the kids transformed them into facial features. And white triangle teeth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They are even better with a story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Click on the graphic to download the big green monster story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As well as making our own BGMs, we read and reread, tell and retell the story - sometimes with with puppets,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">we create our own stories in the pocket chart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and we e</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">njoy an </span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/go-away-big-green-monster!/id470038297?mt=8" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">ipad app</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (the nightclub, jazz singer version of </span><u style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Green Monster</u><span style="font-family: inherit;"> is a.maz.ing).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The story ends ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And don't come back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">until I say so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">just kidding -- please come back -- ha ha</span></div>
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We LOVE Todd Parr books.</div>
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We love that they make us feel good.<br />
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We love that they make us think.<br />
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We love that they make us laugh.<br />
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And we love the bright, colorful illustrations.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>We read a bunch of <a href="http://www.toddparr.com/" target="_blank">Todd Parr</a> books (saved the <a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2012/04/giggle-giggle-underwear-giggle-chuckle.html" target="_blank">underwear books</a> for another time)<br />
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-- and knew we had to do some Todd Parr inspired creating.</div>
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Play dough, loose parts and Todd Parr faces seemed a natural combination.<br />
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The kids' creativity and stories took off. </div>
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Faces made with loose parts.</div>
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Todd Parr faces with "flat" play dough and loose parts.</div>
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The little girl who made the creation on the right said that "the girl is mad - that's why her face is covered". </div>
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Three dimensional figures. </div>
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Not satisfied to leave the Todd Parr fun just with play dough, we created faces and feelings with loose parts on round paper cutouts. </div>
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The kids drew, painted, drew on the face, and then we glued the cut out faces on bright coloured paper. </div>
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After all our book reading, chatting about feelings and faces, explorations and art projects, we did like Todd Parr does at the end of his books -- we wrote a letter. Our message to the world. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">We read </span><u style="text-align: left;">The Crayon Box that Talked </u><span style="text-align: left;">when we talk about being peaceful, being kind, and appreciating </span>that we all have unique talents and abilities. It is a wonderful story about the importance of diversity.</div>
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Many American schools read it as part of Martin Luther King Jr Day activities.</div>
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Whenever it is read, it is a fun book with a good lesson.</div>
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">The Crayon Box That Talked</span></u><br />
written by Shane DeRolf<br />
illustrated by Michael Letzig<br />
published by Random House Books for Young Readers (1997)<br />
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<b>summary </b> A girl buys a box of crayons and takes them home. When she opens up the box, she sees that they crayons are unkind to each other - even though they really don't know why they say mean things.<br />
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The girl shows the crayons how all are important and necessary by drawing a picture using all of them. By the end of the story, the crayons appreciate the contributions that each make.<br />
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My favourite page in the book is when all the crayons are happily dancing across the page, working and creating together.<br />
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Isn't that what we want for our classrooms - everyone working together, appreciating each other.<br />
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We create "dancing crayons" to put up in our classroom, reminding us how all of us are needed for the picture to be complete.</div>
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The kids choose what colour crayon they want to create, and then use a tracer to create a crayon shape. </div>
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Using a tracer is a great fine motor skills work out for little hands. The "helper hand" needs to put firm pressure on the tracer so that it does not move, and the printing hand needs to move the pencil right around the perimeter of the tracer. Lots of concentration required. </div>
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More fine motor work with cutting out the crayon. </div>
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Time to decorate the crayons. We noticed that in the book, the crayons were only decorated withe their own colours. Purple was decorated only with purple. Green with green. You get the drift. But they had all sorts of different decorations. </div>
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We endeavoured to decorate the crayons the same way. No pictures as a result of making sure that all reports of using the wrong colour for decorations were false - and providing glue and googly eyes. </div>
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After the decorated crayons were glued onto legal sized paper, it was time to add the dancing arms and legs. </div>
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Whatever their style, our dancing crayons are a reminder that we are better -- and we have more fun -- when everyone is included and appreciated for what they bring to our community. </div>
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Fall trees are just so beautiful. The kindergarten kids looked at the trees as artists, and saw the colours of the leaves and the lines of the branches.<br />
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As artists, we knew we wanted to paint those trees - highlighting both the lines of the branches and the colours of the changing leaves.<br />
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We looked at the colours of some of the leaves on the trees in our school grounds. We discovered that we needed a variety of colours of paint for the leaves. We discovered that there was not just one colour of leaves on many trees - there were lots of colours of leaves on the same tree.<br />
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and how and where those colours should be on the paper.</div>
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Sponges work wonderfully to mix the colours and create texture. </div>
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We cut out the fall foliage, and turned out attention to the trunk and branches. </div>
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While we were outside, we looked at tree bark, and noticed the colours we saw. </div>
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The children used sponges (texture again) to paint bark, and then I used a paper cutter to cut thick trunk sized pieces, </div>
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The kids chose a trunk, the right number of medium branches for their tree, and then added small branches. </div>
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The results were stunning.<br />
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They each had different coloured foliage,<br />
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<u>The Dot</u> by Peter Reynold is a wonderful book to read. And reread. And be inspired by.<br />
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It reminds us of some very important principles:<br />
• everyone has a mark to leave on the world<br />
• effort should be celebrated<br />
• art is inclusive<br />
• encouragement is contagious<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>summary</b></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"> Vashti thinks that she can't draw. Her art teacher gently asks her to make a dot on her paper, and sign it. Next class, Vashti sees her dot, framed, above her teacher's desk. It inspires her to make better dots, bigger dots, coloured dots, un-dots, and to see herself as an artist.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">My favourite of Vashti's dots is her "undot". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We looked at the "undot" together and talked about how Vashti did not paint a dot. We decided to make undots too. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Negative space is a hard concept for kindergarten kids. </span></span></div>
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We used puck style tempera paints. I have them set up on the tables by colour, and the kids move themselves and their papers to the colours that they want to use.<br />
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After the paint was dry, we peeled off the mactac circle, leaving an unpainted undot on the paper. </div>
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Our first job as a new class, is to create community. </div>
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To define who we are. What we do. What we hope to do. Why we do it.</div>
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10 books on which to build community.</div>
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Thank you to <a href="http://enjoy-embracelearning.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Enjoy and Embrace Learning</a> and <a href="http://reflectandrefine.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Refine and Reflect: Building a Learning Community </a>for hosting this meme.</div>
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Last time, I shared my list of <a href="http://www.rubberbootsandelfshoes.com/2014/08/10-quirky-books-for-children.html" target="_blank">10 quirky books</a> I enjoy reading with my kindergarten class. </div>
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We all come to our school community from our families. Each family is different. And each family is to be validated and valued. </div>
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At school, we find our "tribe of kids". </div>
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"When we don't know something, we get to wonder about it." </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He jumped into my daughter Anna’s backpack and hitched a ride on
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pete seems to have a penchant for visiting old cities and soaking up
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He was delighted that his first stop in SE Asia was Ayutthaya, an
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ayutthaya-history.com/Historical_Sites_HistoricalPark.html" target="_blank">Ayutthaya</a> was the centre of a Siamese kingdom that existed from
1371 - 1767. During this time it had trading relationships with many
countries including China, India, Japan, Spain and France. During the
17th century the king of Ayutthaya had strong links with King Louis
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The historic city of Ayutthaya was declared a UNESCO World
Heritage Site in 1991 and is actually on an island. Pete had to hop on
a small boat that took locals, tourists, and, sometimes, live chickens
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pete explored the ruins of the ancient palaces, and
wats (temples). He marveled at the unique design of the buildings and
imagined kings and queens participating in elaborate ceremonies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Roti saimal is a pancake filled with Thai-style cotton candy. Anna had
made Pete very excited to try it as she had been craving it since her
last trip to Thailand 8 years earlier. Pete developed quite a taste for it,
and was disappointed that he could not find it anywhere else in
Thailand.</span><br />
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Their shells are delightfully fascinating. And the way they move - cool. And their antennae.<br />
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And that got us back to thinking about snails -- and creating art inspired by the Masters.<br />
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learning from books</div>
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research skills</div>
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snail habitat</div>
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snail feeding habits</div>
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snail anatomy</div>
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observation of a living thing</div>
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One of our first and most important goals in our kindergarten class is to become a community. A community that everyone belongs to. Equally. A community that celebrates both that which we have in common, and the things that make us different and unique. A community that is curious, and brave enough to explore new ideas and skills. A community that cares for each other, and cheers each other on. A group of kids that belong together.<br />
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We read a book about a child who kept looking for his "group of kids who belong together".<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>There is a Tribe of Kids</b></span></div>
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At the beginning of the story, we meet the main character -a kid - with a tribe of kids (the goat variety).<br />
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Having been left behind, he realizes that he does not belong with these kids, and begins his adventures to find his tribe.<br />
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He swims with a smack of jellyfish,<br />
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connects with a family of stars,<br />
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blooms with a growth of plants,<br />
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- but does not belong with any of them.<br />
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He keeps adventuring - until he finds his tribe of leaf clad kids and joins their play.<br />
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He tells them about his adventures,<br />
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and finds a family to belong with. Where he is loved!<br />
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As I read the book aloud to the kids, we enjoyed (and had fun with) Lane's choice of words in the story. The text is sparse, each word carefully chosen. The kids enjoyed the "clash" of rhinos, the "army" of caterpillars, and, most especially. the "unkindness" of ravens.<br />
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We loved both the simplicity and detail in all the illustrations.<br />
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Each animal, insect, plant, and even rock, was created with its own characteristics and personality.<br />
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The kids pored over the double spread of the kids doing their kid thing in the forest. There is so much to investigate - so many back stories to wonder about, so many future stories to tell.<br />
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There is Tribe of Kids just begs its readers to create their own tribe of kids.<br />
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The logical starting place is with leaves - collect some. We only collected maple leaves - other kinds of leaves would also work. Purchased paper or fabric leaves would also work.<br />
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We painted our leaves and made leaf prints. (We only made red leaves since we were making a tribe of Canadian kids to celebrate Canada's birthday).<br />
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I cut out the leaves so that the children could transform them into kids.<br />
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The kids chose to use markers, pencil crayons and felt pens (markers) to create their tribe of children.<br />
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I love how this leaf-kid is wearing Canadian flags on her head just like the artist-kid is. <br />
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Each member of the tribe had character and personality.<br />
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There is a Tribe of Kids has generated some controversy because of the use of the word "tribe" in the title and text. <br />
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I read the book, read reviews outlining how the book can be perceived as racist, and chose to share it with my class (which includes First Nations students) based on the meaning of "tribe" as a group of people sharing the same customs and culture. We spent all year building community - building our tribe. Becoming a group of kids who belong together.<br />
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Read, and think.<br />
<a href="http://www.slj.com/2016/07/diversity/there-is-a-tribe-of-kids-generates-controversy-among-librarians/" target="_blank">School Library Journal</a><br />
<a href="https://readingwhilewhite.blogspot.ca/2016/07/reviewing-while-white-there-is-tribe-of.html%20https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/books/review/il-sung-nas-the-opposite-zoo-and-more.html?_r=2" target="_blank">Reading While White </a><br />
<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lane-smith-5/there-is-a-tribe-of-kids/" target="_blank">Kirk's</a><br />
<a href="https://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=7816724&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1" target="_blank">Booklist</a><br />
<a href="https://fairrosa.com/2016/07/17/a-tribe-of-kind-souls/" target="_blank">Fairrosa Cyber Library</a><br />
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You know how the universe sometimes nudges you to do something, change something.<br />
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For the last few years I have been taking things <i>out</i> of my classroom. Making it more simple, fewer colors, less clutter. I want the kids and their work to be the focal point, and the classroom "decor" to be the background. A background that supports independence, curiosity, imagination and learning.<br />
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This summer, I knew it was time for my classroom alphabet line to change to something more organic, more simple, more natural.<br />
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Second step was to look for inspiration. Yup. That meant Pinterest. There is a<a href="http://rubberbootsandelfshoes.blogspot.ca/2015/07/i-have-been-thinking-about-changing-my.html" target="_blank"> lot of inspiration out there.</a><br />
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As I tell my students, when you are inspired by something, an idea goes inside your brain and rolls around in there mixing with other ideas, and makes something new.<br />
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I knew that I had some cedar shingles left over from roofing our shed last summer.<br />
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I knew that a friend would cut me some letters with her trusty cricut.<br />
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This all rolled around in my brain, and with input from friends, an idea grew.<br />
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One letter per cedar shake; lower case letter on the bottom, simple silhouette picture on the top. Cover with stain. Letter and picture in relief.<br />
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My cedar shakes were a bit too long for the space I have - a chance to use power tools!<br />
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Images for the top. Some of the images were easy. A is for apple. Every one knows what an apple shape is. Some were a bit tougher. The image had to be easily recognizable in silhouette form, and had to work with stain on cedar. The cat ended up being a learning experience. Too finicky and was not easily recognizable. I turned the shake over and made a car on the other side! </div>
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ps. @MmeKathleen of Mrs. Silky Cactus fame let me know that she made an alphabet set for her French Immersion kindergarten classroom. C'est magnifique!<br />
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In our kindergarten class, we don't have class rules.<br />
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They were good rules.<br />
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1. I am responsible.<br />
2. I am respectful.<br />
3. I am caring.<br />
4. I do my best.<br />
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We had fun actions for each rule. The kids understood the rules - and referred to them as part of our classroom life.<br />
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There was nothing wrong with the rules.<br />
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But they did not reflect my hope and goal for each of the learners in our class.<br />
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My hope for them is that they each make positive choices for themselves. My goal is to give them experiences and opportunities to make choices that are healthy, appropriate to the situation and respectful of others' needs and our shared space.<br />
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But anarchy is not fun. (I have read Lord of the Flies.) <br />
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And in kindergarten, the kids are 4, 5 and 6. They each need a primary attachment figure at school. A school "mum". Someone to help them when they need it; who will keep them safe.<br />
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We have "guiding principles".<br />
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But that terminology is way too esoteric for most kindergarten kids.<br />
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So, we have "how we roll".<br />
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The answer to<br />
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safety first<br />
and kindness.<br />
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Safety is non-negotiable.<br />
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That's were the "school mum" comes in. My responsibility is to keep the kids safe. As safe as necessary. If the kids choose not to be safe, then I have to be in charge of them until they are able to make safe choices. Safe for them and safe for others.<br />
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We started our discussion about safety with <u>How Do Dinosaurs Stay Safe</u>. Click on the cover to read reviews at Goodreads.<br />
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More books for kids about staying safe [<a href="http://www.givinguponperfect.com/2014/03/stranger-danger-books/#_a5y_p=1379261" target="_blank">here</a>]. </div>
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Kindness.<br />
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Kindness covers so many wonderful things. We can be kind to ourselves, kind to others, kind to animals, kind to the earth ...<br />
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We read some books about kindness to kickstart discussion.<br />
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More kindness books [<a href="http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/stories-of-kindness.html" target="_blank">here</a>] and [<a href="http://www.coffeecupsandcrayons.com/acts-of-kindness-books-for-kids/" target="_blank">here</a>].</div>
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We learn to be respectful, responsible and caring - and to do our best when we are kind.<br />
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Kindness gives us opportunities to do more than is necessary. We can do "extra". We aren't just responsible for our own mess at clean up time - we are kind and help others with their mess too. Kindness gives us the opportunity to do things for others, without expecting anything in return.<br />
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Kindness makes each of us responsible to decide how we will play, work, take care of our belongings, take care of our classroom and take care of each other.<br />
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With kindness, we are accountable to ourselves and each other, not a set of rules.<br />
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That seems to work for us.<br />
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Sandi http://www.blogger.com/profile/06934275490850696637noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5082008635881738459.post-3762845079400569682017-07-05T00:07:00.004-07:002022-04-03T21:43:00.693-07:00Eric Carle inspired ladybugs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One of the Eric Carle books that just has to be read and enjoyed every year is <u>The Very Grouchy Ladybug.</u><br />
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We love the art work, as a teacher I embrace the math concepts, and we enjoy all the animals. But we wonder, why does that ladybug need to be so grouchy!<br />
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We sorted that conundrum by making not-so-grouchy ladybugs! Eric Carle style.<br />
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First we looked at how Eric Carle created his ladybugs - he cut painted paper.<br />
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We started by making painted paper.<br />
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Each child painted half a piece of heavier bond photocopier paper red with a sponge. I love how sponges cover a lot of paper quickly - and create wonderful lines and textures with the paint.</div>
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When the papers were all painted, I cut them to 5 1/2" x 6" rectangles (and saved the scraps for other projects). <br />
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The kids decided if they wanted a ladybug that was taller, or a ladybug that was wider. Then they cut two "curvy corners" at the top of their paper.<br />
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Cutting curvy corners is a tricky skill. It seems much easier for the kids to draw and/or cut a concave curve than a convex one. We keep practicing ....<br />
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A black ladybug head. It starts a 2 1/2" black square of construction paper. Four curvy corners later, it is a ladybug head.<br />
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A ladybug is an insect, therefore it has six legs. A couple pieces of black construction paper -- 2.5 x 3" are cut into three legs each.<br />
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A ladybug needs 2 antennae. We drew them on with a black crayon.<br />
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And spots. Time for some more math. We shook our handy dandy container that holds two dice, shook it, and added the numbers together.<br />
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That's how many dots the ladybug got. Not very scientific, but quite mathematical. </div>
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The ladybugs needed faces. Grouchy faces - or not-grouchy faces. </div>
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Each child had to decide what kind of ladybug they would like to be. We chatted about different emotions, and how our faces and bodies look when we are feeling them. </div>
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I took photos of all the children, printed them, and the kids glued them onto the ladybug black head. </div>
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The Grouchy Ladybug was very verbal. There was absolutely no doubt how she was feeling about the world. Our not-so-grouchy ladybugs also needed to have a voice. </div>
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So we gave them one. </div>
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Click on the speech bubbles to get your own copy. </div>
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Sometimes a smaller ladybug is the right size ladybug.<br />
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We have also made them with 3 1/2 x 4 1/2" red paper, 2" square paper for the round head, and 2 pieces of 1 1/2 x 2" paper to cut to make the legs. Click on the graphic below to print the speech bubbles.<br />
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We enjoy lots of Eric Carle activities in our classroom. Click on the photos to get the low down.<br />
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<u>The Very Tiny Seed</u><br />
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