Delicious! Building Community With the Common Language of Story & Food Part 2
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Every Night Is Pizza Night
Our 2022 Community Read began with the book Delicious: Poems Celebrating Street Food Around the World. For more information, read more about it here.All students in grades 1-5 read this book. The next books and activities were broken down by grade. Here I share the book and activities for our 1st-3rd graders:
Students in grades 1-3 listened to this book
Students wrote or drew about the food they would eat every night.
Next, students chose how to share their thinking. They could create their food with legos, model magic, or make their drawing talk with ChatterPix.
Some students created their food on our Lego wall.
Others created their food with Model Magic.
Model Magic was a crowd favorite!
A student created their food with Model Magic and made it talk with ChatterPix.
My takeaways
Model Magic was hugely popular. I am finding that the hands-on activities are often the most sought-after. The goal of the ChatterPix videos was to have them explain why every night should be their food's night, but most videos got silly and went a bit off-course. I anticipated this happening, so my 2nd & 3rd grade groups had a "practice Chatterpix" session first where they explored using it.
Of course we were finishing at different rates so I created a class where there were food centers for the early finishers. This helped keep the early finishers engaged while inspiring the others to wrap up their projects.
Move: Students do yoga
Listen: Students could listen to recorded picture books, funny food poetry, or books about food
Sing: Students read/sing the story
Laugh: Students read & share jokes
Students complete Jarrett Lerner's food comics
Student food comic example
Resources
Here I collected the various activities from our Community Read:
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