Awesome Maps!

The children did a fabulous job on their bedroom maps.  They have really enjoyed sharing them with the class.  It looks like pools and trampolines are the most popular items in the fantasy bedroom collection.  I especially like the ones where the trampoline also serves as a diving board!

We have been really busy this week.  Our schedule has been off again due to testing, however today was the last day.  Yippee!  It makes for a really long day when we come in from lunch and recess around 11:40 and are in the room until 3:00 with no breaks.  They've been troopers, but are ready to get back  to normal.  Me too!!

In addition to our bedroom map project we have completed a "map of me" at school.  We read the book Parts, which they loved, and talked about our body parts.  We then made "mini me's" complete with a shirt that opens like a book where we included our map keys.  The children identified their eyes, nose, mouth, heart and belly button by using different symbols and then created a map key for people to read their maps.  They did a great job on this!  There are a couple of pictures of them below.

Today we compared what a map of the city and country would show.  We watched a short video of The Country Mouse and The City Mouse and then compared the city and country using a Venn Diagram.  Tomorrow we are going to read The Little House and add additional comparisons.

We are also discussing fact and fantasy in the books we read.  Yesterday we read a book that had facts about different means of transportation in the back.  We painted beautiful hot air balloons and added a fact about a favorite means of transportation and then added it to the balloon's basket.

Today we painted kites after reading The Kite Festival and wrote two things we remembered about the story on kite ribbons.  Tomorrow we will cut our kites out and add our tail and  ribbons.