Delicious! Building Community With the Common Language of Story & Food Part 2
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 w...