Different ways of communicating

The pictures show some of the different ways that the children came up with as a way of communicating. We had a fun time writing a letter and walking all the way to the mailbox with it. The children enjoyed dropping their letters in the mailbox. They are excited to get a reply.

This pictures show another way of communicating that the children liked. Painting and expressing something through drawings and then without using words, the children had to guess what the pictures where about. They are really good at understanding messages even without listening to words. They saw the picture with the children that were going to the bathroom and without asking they walked quietly to the bathroom to get ready for outside. 

IB profile word - COMMUNICATOR

I am a communicator! 

The profile word for last week and this week is COMMUNICATOR. 

We read the story Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk to get some ideas about the different ways of communicating. The children identified four different ways in the story: writing a note, talking - oral communication, writing a story and drawing. After we read the story we made a chart with all the different ways of communicating that we were able to come up with. Walkie talkies, phones, radios, talking, notes, pictures, card, stories, and our body were some of the ways that the children came up with. 

After we made the chart we came up with a plan. Every day we will use a different method to communicate with our parents/friends. The children sent an email home, they painted a picture and in the upcoming days we will use different ways to send a message. It was amazing to see them communicating without using their words. We used only our body to express what we want to say. When we painted the pictures, the children chose not to tell what they wanted to communicate through their pictures because they wanted their friends to guess. All the children came up with wonderful ideas and it was interesting that they all had different ideas about the meaning of each picture.