At our Kinesthetic Station, the students choreographed and performed a dragon dance to music from Asian cultures. At our Musical station, groups have learned a verse from a story song that they will perform in its entirety at our upcoming Dragon Showcase!
At our Logical-Mathematical station, students have been doing some examining of the differences and similarities between dragons and dinosaurs. Our research teams have been scouring through books to discover the places where these extinct reptiles overlap with their fantastic counterparts.
Part of our dragon learning has uncovered that Eastern Dragons are composites of many different types of animals with features ranging from stag antlers and fish scales to demon eyes and tiger paws! At our Visual-Spatial center, kids have been dreaming up a new dragon with parts borrowed from some of their favorite animals. Their creations have included porcupine quills, octopus tentacles and even Rudolph's red nose!
At the Intrapersonal station, students have been creating stories about the dragons in the murals they created last week. They begin with a planning sheet to help them organize the beginning, middle and end of their story, then draft in their dragon journals. There have been some pretty exciting adventures including dragons in outer space! The kids have enjoyed trying their hands at fiction writing.
And finally, at our Verbal-Linguistic station, we have brought back the poems we have been missing in the absence of homework packets. Partners have been choosing poems to memorize and illustrate, then reciting their selection to the class. It has been wonderful to hear!
We are so excited to present all of our learning at the Dragon Showcase on December 23rd.
Hope to see you there!
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