![]() We started creating props and will continue to re-enact the story throughout the month of May. Different parts of the story structure have been explored, such as plot, characters and setting. ![]() As a class, we began discussing staging a performance and acting out the story. They also made a patient that was used during dramatic doctor play.įurthermore, during the last few weeks of April, the children have shown a lot of interest in the book "The Gingerbread Man." They began pretending they were the different characters in the story. They then revisited the drawings they had originally made and drew their bodies again, adding the new information they had gained more details, such as a brain, bones, heart, etc. They made life-size cut-outs of their bodies, and they spent time adding materials to create themselves. While reading stories of what's inside our body, they learned about the number of bones found in our hands, and they recreated this by tracing their hands and placing Q-tips inside the skin to represent bones. The children created drawings of their skeletons and the bones inside their bodies. X-rays of bones were investigated on the light table. ![]() After planning various learning experiences for the children, we were very interested to see that their focus was skeletons and bones. After much discussion and based on the children's interests, we decided the next project to explore would be "The Human Body." We created a web to document the children's prior knowledge and the questions they wanted to explore. This led to many conversations and a comparison of dinosaurs and humans. ![]() During April, as we were completing our project on "Dinosaurs," we observed that the children continued to be fascinated with skeletons and bones. ![]()
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