On one dark, dark, night the grade one students of IREC met up with one of the scary creatures you see on the wall! As an introduction to our Visualization Unit, that the grade 1 team planned together, students listened to a descriptive story about meeting a monster in the woods. They then worked in groups to create different body parts based on the information they got from the story. We put all of the parts together to create a collective visualization of the monster! All of the grade one classes got together to compare the similarities and differences between all of the monsters. It was a great project to build cooperative learning as well as reflection of the final product.
Habit #6: Synergize
Students were put into groups, responsible for either the head, face, body or appendages of the monster. Each group was responsible for the planning of the following: group member roles, writing of a supplies list and the drawing, cutting and gluing of each portion of the monster that they had been assigned. This was a great opportunity for our students to practice habit #6: Synergize; working towards a similar goal as a team.