Chirpie's House We agreed that Chirpie needed a house, so I set them to work. I put the students into groups to come up with an idea and design for his house. We needed to set some criteria of what would be necessary for his home. I gave them a few things that they had to have in Chirpie's house. They also came up with a long list of fun things to put in his home! I put the students in groups and, as a part of our Applied Design, Skills & Technology curriculum, they spent time designing and creating “Chirpie’s House”. At first they just met in their groups to discuss possible ideas for the house. Then they used the white boards to draw up any plan ideas that they had. During this ideate and design process, the children were very focused on the Core Competency of Communication - and not just communicating their ideas! We've talked a lot about the Communication Competency as also being about 'listening'. For some, listening and validating others' ideas can be a hard one! So we moved from the idea and design stage to the building stage on Thursday. We invited Mr. Wielgoz, our District Coordinator and the teacher who loaned us the 'Makedo' supplies, to come and watch us during this stage of the process. As you can imagine our room was very messy at the end of all this creating. So, we quickly got to work and had a huge clean-up. The children were awesome helpers!! Cleaning up is an important part of being a class member. The children showed great responsibility! We talked about how during the design and building processes the children were very focused on the 'Thinking' Core Competencies - both Critical and Creative. Although they had many good ideas, sometimes when they tried building their idea it didn't always work out the way that they wanted. So, they had to try different ways to make it work. Definitely showing a "growth mind-set". The students requested more time to complete their project. Although they had already met the "must have" criteria, they all wanted to add some "fun extras" to make Chirpie's house special! It was time to invite Chirpie to walk through each of the houses. The groups had to explain all about their homes and Chirpie got to try them all out! Every member of the group had to do some of the explaining. Museum Now it was time to present their creations to a bigger audience! We invited Ms. Mabee, Mrs. Connolly's Kindergarten class, Mrs. Zirnhelt's Kindergarten/Grade One class, Mrs. Ruddick's Grade Four class, and Mrs. Connelly to come and walk through and check things out. We did it "museum style" where the children stayed with their projects and people walked around the room and visited each table. It was a little more intimidating explaining their homes to people who they didn't know but they were very brave and did a great job! Congratulations Kindergarten!!
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