representing HOME

On Monday, the children continued the reading of nonfiction literature about homes and communities around the world. I used our earlier conversation about our own homes as an invitation for the Kindergarteners to represent their homes. We talked about first picturing our homes in our minds and planning our work. The children then used black sharpie to draw their homes. 

Later in the morning, work partners had time to share their drawings with one another. Every detail had a story to go with it. OC pointed out the shingles on his roof while ML excitedly shared about the butterfly in her bedroom window. In the afternoon, splashes and swirls of watercolor were added to each drawing. Once displayed, we noticed differences in shape, number of windows, size, and color. We talked about the special parts in our homes, the cozy places we love to play and read in.  Our conversations and noticings continued to circle back to the notion that while we are all unique and different, we are also similar. 

 

 

Work partners sit close together, sharing their representations and explaining each detail.

 

 

Writers think about what they want to represent in their mind first and then put their ideas on paper using pictures and words. In the below photographs, the artists use color to enhance and add further detail to their work!

 

 

Later in the week, the children used their knowledge of sight words and their developing literacy skills to build and write a sentence. The sentence provided a title for their work. 

This  is  my  home.

The children noticed that the word is can be found in this, that there are four words in the sentence and three spaces, and that we know is and my REALLY well!