Literacy, Social Studies, and Creative Arts

Creative Arts:

Four Areas: Dance, Music, Theatre arts , and Visual arts How would you “score” these common practices ? Change them to make them more engaging or creative? Children: Tracing hand to make turkey and writing 5 things they are grateful for on each finger Singing patriotic songs Gluing pieces of a ship together to make Columbus’ ships Learning dance steps from Africa to create their own routines Writing a performing a play on the civil rights movement Coloring a worksheet of Johnny Appleseed Designing and painting a mural to represent the life cycle of a frog Constructing a classroom pop-up book on the rainforest What are other arts activities/ideas? Creative Arts

: Four Components:

: Four Components In your classroom, look for ways to integrate these naturally into daily “operations” Physical environment Procedures & schedules Instruction Whole group Small group Independent work Learning Centers

Reading:

Reading Rich literature environment Books placed appropriate to their surroundings Read EVERY day (DEAR, Read Aloud) Arts Connection: Illustrating a story or non fiction book

Writing:

Writing Journals (personal and class) Classroom books Word walls Labels Suggestion box (can support Morning Meeting) Writing for specific purposes Arts Connection: Writing for dramatic or creative purposes (puppet show, songs, skits,

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Source: http://www.valerie.ferrellweb.com/teachers/tools/worksheets/wordwall.gif http://larremoreteachertips.blogspot.com/2010/07/words-that-break-rules.html Word Wall Word Jail: Words are “sent” here when they break the rules

Listening:

Listening Teacher Instruction Attending to all others Following directions Origami

Speaking:

Speaking Morning Meeting, Show & Tell Oral Reports Learning Centers (Housekeeping) Social and Structured Conversations Arts Connection: Singing, Acting Out (!)

An Example.....:

An Example..... Writing Reading Speaking Listening Arts Connection Source: http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v6n1/bellous.html How might you integrate literacy objectives/instruction with creative arts in a Unit/Study of trees?

Social Studies for Young Learners:

Social Studies for Young Learners A developmental Progression: Self – Families – School – Community-Culture (Region, Nation, etc.) Suggested Social Studies Curriculum Human similarities and differences Basic human needs Human interdependence Rights and responsibilities People and the places they live People and the past Bickart , Jablon, & Dodge, 1999

Make Time for Social Studies !!:

Make Time for Social Studies !! Morning Meeting and Calendar Family Engagement Field Trips School initiatives (service learning) Community building and the social curriculum

Direct Instruction:

Direct Instruction Mini-lessons Short lesson with a narrow focus (5-15 minutes of direct instruction) Skill or strategy instruction Use of student work as springboard Found in Readers’ and Writers’ Workshop models, can be used in other content areas

Mini Lessons:

Mini Lessons Such as Writer’s Workshop Components of the Focused Lesson Connect: How this fits with what we are doing Teach: Explicit Instruction/Modeling Active Involvement: Think and discuss Off you go: Send students off with a purpose Work Time Closing/Share: Share work

Writer’s Workshop Strategy (adapted from DPI):

Writer’s Workshop Strategy (adapted from DPI) Strategy: Read it backwards In this lesson, students will learn a procedure for identifying and correcting the spelling of misspelled words. Take a draft of a writing sample and starting from the bottom and right, read each word. This makes it easier to identify incorrectly spelled words. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3475?ref=search