Miss Jen's 1st Grade Smarties did a great job today in library. We shared the wordless picture book Zoom by Istvan Banyai, practicing using our Visual Thinking Strategies to read the illustrations. The book starts with this illustration:
Our first graders had lots of great thoughts of what this might be:
a crown with crenelations,
a mountain,
a dinosaur's spiky back,
a monster foot...
Then we turned the page and zoomed out to see...
a crown with crenelations,
a mountain,
a dinosaur's spiky back,
a monster foot...
Then we turned the page and zoomed out to see...
It's all a matter of perspective.
After exploring Google Earth a bit, we ended with book shopping and enjoying
this music video that takes a tour of our planet.
After exploring Google Earth a bit, we ended with book shopping and enjoying
this music video that takes a tour of our planet.