Rube Goldberg Day 2

Rube Goldberg Day 1

Back to Science!

Given our challenges with action and reaction we decided it might make things a bit accessible for the students if we had images that they could abstract movement from to create their action and reaction movement. I went through and found images that contained motion. 

By doing this we were able to talk to the students about how they could abstract or create motion from the ideas in the picture. We went through all of the pictures and improvised different ways and then showed some from the class that were unique and different. 

From here we split them into groups and let them go to work with creating their action reaction, Rube Goldberg Machines. At the the end of class we presented out work and then gave a few ideas for things we could work on or add the next day before we presented them to our first grade reading buddy class. 

Overall it was a lot more positive of an experience for the students. 

Ending Shape--Roll Roll Roll Explode! HOLD IT!!

An Dro Retourne--Social Studies

Along with our Turkey in the Straw day we did a second day talking about folk dance in relation to social studies. We did a dance called An Dro Retourne which is a dance from France that is based in walking and skipping. Before the lesson I had thought about the fact that An Dro Retourne was not incredibly complicated but I had not thought about how quick the skipping was. This meant I had to adjust quickly during the lesson. We added an option of doing a slower step hop and then later when they were more comfortable with the sequence allowed them to try to do the quicker walk walk walk skip.