While learning about all of the people that make up the Community around them, the 1st Grade has been given the task to create their own smaller communities or "families" to understand the concepts of Connection and Responsibility.
Through the game "Shoe Walk", the class is split up into small groups. Each group makes a line and the line leader creates a very special and original walk to the piece of music that is playing. The rest of the group must follow the line leader exactly in order for the line to work as it should. Each member of the group must carefully observe the movements as well as the facial expression of the line leader and match it exactly. Once the entire group has gone around in a full circle walking this special walk, the line leader goes to the end and the next in line becomes the new line leader, who can create their own, original walk.....as you can see here!
In the next game, "Family Types", new groups were made and each group had to demonstrate the emotions or the professions that they were given. Some of the professions were those of our community that we are very familiar with. Others were ones that we could only dream of becoming. Here the groups must connect with each other while at the same time choosing completely unique ways of expressing the same feeling or job!
The Teacher Family
The Angry Family
The Crying Family
The Superhero Family
The Rock Star Family!
