Primary students at IRC are going to be collaborating on a mural for the kindergarten stairwell based on the idea of the U.N. Rights of the Child. We'll be beginning to work on that through the end of the month. So, yesterday we read For Every Child, which introduces the idea of what children need.
We brainstormed a list of things we felt every child deserved that we might want to incorporate into our parts of the mural. In their own words:
Every Child Deserves:
1. Food
--Fruit (apples, oranges)
--Vegetables
--Not Chips
--Milk
--Energy
2. Water
--Clean
--No Garbage
--Fresh
3. Safety
--Don't be hurt
--Families to take care of them (hugging and kissing)
--Doctors and hospitals to fix them if they get sick
--A nice bed to sleep
--Somewhere to keep their toys
4. Environment
--Clean air
--No garbage
--Nature (animals, trees, and the beach)
5. Toys.
6. School
--Learning to read and do math
--Learn to play sports
--Learn to share (be nice, don't be rude, be kind)
We're also continuing to see amazing things in the play dough centre:
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| The original eyeball monster |
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| They're aliens! |
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| An alien family |
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| Planet Mars and an eyeball monster |
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| More dinosaur |
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| Insects and eyeballs |
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| Using books as sources |
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| Using The Party by Barbara Reid as a source |
Construction is also really big in the classroom right now.
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| This designer home has custom block furnishing |
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| Working together to create energy smart homes of the future. The gear is "solar powered" |
Finally, a portrait of me, inspired by Henry's interest in Picasso.
