LITERACY:
First, we read a book by Jean Fritz called George Washington's Breakfast. The narrator in the story, a boy named George Washington Allen because he shares his birthday with Washington, is very similar to our Seabury kids. He has an intense curiosity and a nagging question that he has to know the answer to, "What did George Washington have for breakfast?!" He asks his mom and dad lots of questions, gets help from his librarian, goes to Mount Vernon and finally (spoiler alert) finds the answer only to transition to the next question, "What did George Washington have for lunch?!"
MATH:
We discovered many things as we read this book including the fact that George Washington loved to count stairs and figure out how many days old he was. Some of the Navigators took on the challenge that night at home:
SOCIAL STUDIES:
We then looked at other George Washington books and did some question storming. We came up with a long list of things we wonder about:
GEOGRAPHY:
We got out our big atlases and looked for Great Britain, Washington State, Washington D.C. and the Washington state flag. We began to discuss the transitions from being colonies of Great Britain to becoming the independent United States and of growing from 13 to 50 states.
MORE MATH:
In Math we looked closely at coins, did some sorting and skip counting and played several money games.We also watched a short movie on how and where money is designed and minted. It was a great introduction to America's patriots, values, symbols, monuments and motto--e pluribus unum.
ART:
We did some coin rubbings and looked closely at how hair styles have transitioned from George Washington's time to Franklin Roosevelt's time. We also talked about how we know what George Washington looked like back before cameras were invented and how silhouettes were one way to "record" how someone looked.
Here's how we made our personal silhouettes with our favorite color combinations. Can you recognize anyone?
No comments:
Post a Comment