Last week we explored Becky’s idea about Fish. We gathered the information that Becky and the other ones knew about fish and what they would like to explore more. We all made a connection to the Friendship unit – The Rainbow Fish story by Marcus Pfister, but this time we were looking to see how the rainbow fish expresses himself. The children identified two different forms of expression: body movement; when the rainbow fish swam by, he was expressing his pride; and by using words. We also talked about different opinions and different perspectives, so the children identified that in the story, the octopus is a character that sees things from a different perspective and helps the rainbow fish out.
At the end, we all modeled a fish from our own perspective of what a fish looks like and Nicolas said that from his perspective he will make the fish with all the scales shiny.
For the summative week, we will try to demonstrate our understanding of the central idea, We express ourselves in many ways and this helps us connect with one another, in different ways.
