Today the lessons focused on Thanksgiving and the early Arizonans. The students used a few types of thinking maps throughout these lessons. First they worked with their what I am thankful for maps and Mrs. K. led them through a lesson on writing a paragraph with an intro, middle and conclusion. I liked how cross-curricular this was. It started off as a social studies lesson, then became a literacy lesson, then shifted back into social studies with the introduction of story about Sara Morton’s Day, which described a day in the life of little pilgrim girl. After the story, Mrs. K. had the students write a double bubble map to illustrate what things are different about their lives compared to Sara’s and what things are the same. Lots of lovely thinking!
After this the 3rd graders went to art and the 4th graders learned about Navajo rugs and then were given a rug making activity to do. I helped pass out the rug looms with yarn on them and helped the students weave their first threads. One student figured out an easier way to weave the yarn using a pencil as a guide and we then taught some of the other students how to use the quicker method. They all really got into it, we had a lot of fun. I liked this kinesthetic activity to weave a Navajo rug. This is a tribe that lives in AZ and has a good sized population in the valley. The students could relate the first tribes to the modern ones.
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