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Chart
showing individual characteristics
| Type
of Submission: |
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idea is a submission for:
X A curriculum
idea
__Cool things to do
__A special issue
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| Age
group for whom this activity is appropriate:
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3-5
year olds
| Brief
description of activity: |
As
part of a unit on self, we talk about eye color, hair
color, and height. We did this both on the computer
activity My Friend in Bailey’s Book House and
also in class meetings.
| What
I did to set this up and how I followed through: |
In
Bailey’s Book House, an activity called My
Friend asks children to describe and define the
features of a creature: hair, eyes, nose, mouth,
arms, and feet. The words are common adjectives
such as straight, curly, big, pointed, etc. At
circle time we talk about how to descibe their
own physical features. I also encourage the children
to talk about other non-visible features of a
friend such as kindness, fun to be with, has good
ideas, easy to get along with, etc. This is a
good way to talk about friendship and characteristics
of a friend.
We then made a chart of our own features. This
was a great tie-in to a unit we did on self. |
| Materials
used: |
Poster paper, "Post Its" or colored paper
and tape. This can also be done on a computer
| What
the children had to do and what I wanted them
to learn: |
- After
playing the computer game, I asked the children
to identify characteristics of their own that
we could graph..
- I
made a few charts. One showed different eye colors;
one showed hair colors; one showed height.
- I
gave the children small post-it stickers on which
I wrote each name. Each child had to put his or
her post-it in the correct column.
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our charts were completed, we compared how many
people have black eyes; who is the tallest, are
there more black haired children or brown haired
children in the room.
| Background:
How I got the idea: |
We always do a unit on self. I realized that the kids
could make a ready connection between the My Friend game
and thinking about their own features. |
| Analysis:
How the kids and/or parents responded: |
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It
was interesting to me to see that an activity that I
do each year really took on a new life when it was connected
to the something the kids were already enjoying on the
computer. Making our charts also seemed to stimulate
greater interest in that computer activity..
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