Who We Are
Central Idea: People use decoration and this helps us learn about each other
Lines of Inquiry:
Exploring a variety of decorations from various cultures (form)
Decorations tell human stories and help us know one another (connection)
Similarities and differences in ideas about what a decoration is (perspective)
Gathering children's prior knowledge helps teachers plan future lessons.
With Halloween just gone by the children had lots to say about decorations
they had at their homes and in their yard.
Prior knowledge:
Decorations can be used to decorate out home on holidays.
I asked the children if they had decorations on their clothes,
there was some discussion about what was a decoration and what wasn't and
so I turned this into a question:
Are buttons and zippers decorations?
Eric Carle's Hermit the Crab is a story that led the children to think about comparing things that are plain and things that are decorated. Then they decorated their own Hermit the crab shell.
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