Many thanks to all of you for the wonderful attendance at our end of the unit celebration. The students were so proud of their work and all they've learned throughout our unit of inquiry on creativity. For even more background on our work, please take a moment to read about this particular project:
We began by watching a recording of the book "Not a Box" by Antoinette Portis. This book is about a bunny who uses his creativity to imagine a cardboard box as being different things.
At this point we discussed a new vocabulary word: original. We talked about how the bunny came up with original ideas because they were all new and things he hadn't thought of before. We then took some time to come up with some original ideas of our own for cardboard boxes.
After some brainstorming, each of us chose a box to transform into our chosen idea. The word transform was a word we had been learning through one of our lines of inquiry.
As the project continued we began to explore other aspects of creativity, such as elaboration. We really began to grow in our understanding of the word elaboration as we saw what a difference detail makes in creating products. We elaborated on our own original ideas to make them even more creative. In the end, these were our products:
We are thankful to Carol, our go-to tech guy, for helping us create our QR codes so that all could enjoy listening to each of us explain our creations.
If you weren't able to attend our wonderful celebration, please take some time to listen to your child's explanation via his/her QR code and then allow your child the opportunity to explain his/her thinking. Again, thank you to all who were able to make our special morning!
We began by watching a recording of the book "Not a Box" by Antoinette Portis. This book is about a bunny who uses his creativity to imagine a cardboard box as being different things.
At this point we discussed a new vocabulary word: original. We talked about how the bunny came up with original ideas because they were all new and things he hadn't thought of before. We then took some time to come up with some original ideas of our own for cardboard boxes.
After some brainstorming, each of us chose a box to transform into our chosen idea. The word transform was a word we had been learning through one of our lines of inquiry.
As the project continued we began to explore other aspects of creativity, such as elaboration. We really began to grow in our understanding of the word elaboration as we saw what a difference detail makes in creating products. We elaborated on our own original ideas to make them even more creative. In the end, these were our products:
We are thankful to Carol, our go-to tech guy, for helping us create our QR codes so that all could enjoy listening to each of us explain our creations.
If you weren't able to attend our wonderful celebration, please take some time to listen to your child's explanation via his/her QR code and then allow your child the opportunity to explain his/her thinking. Again, thank you to all who were able to make our special morning!
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