To practice this skill, we both agreed on how much time would be spent on building and on writing. Remind him that managing our time well with an assignment was also one The more he built, the more intricate and It was easy for my student to getĬarried away with building. What was still hard for your student with the new approach? How? Of modeling, after the first three lessons, he was running the show! Of course, it wasn't smooth sailing from the beginning, but with plenty Independent on taking pictures of his creation and adding that to the StoryVisualizer. Student was willing to take ownership of his lessons and be more I was surprised at how easy this was! After the first lesson, my Okay Annie, there must have been some surprises. Planning stage so when it was time to talk about this story, the story Routine helped him to include all these components during the So I don't interrupt of his storytelling flow). Was finished talking about, we would go through a checklist of all theįirst four W's and revisit the how and the why towards the end (I purposely do this
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Once finished with building, my student was excited to share his story full of twists and turns and dramatic endings. Generating their own stories, they have to keep track of the who, what,
Include that into his writing in the StoryVisualizer. By talking about characters' feelings beforehand, my students was able to The questions on feelings are included in the script for teachers who That comes up over and over again in our conversations. It to be a great segue way into a rich conversation on diverse perspectives of certain characters that are in their stories. I find this goal to be one of the most important, because I find It's like a pretend play closet but not as smelly and messy.Īll the lessons have the POV component intertwined with other various Hey man, they have dogs, arrows, food, plates, so many different hats. Teachers are able to modify the script depending on theĬhild's background knowledge and interests. Each script is fun and general enoughįor any student of any age to add their own twist to the story. Teacher so much time! Each lesson comes with a set of questions and She divided them into three parts.Įach lesson is centered around standards and goals which saves the I asked Annie about the program's strengths. Here are the results of our ongoing test, 3 months in: (Comments are abridged for your convenience.) I will be keeping this set forever and ever and ever. I received this set for the purposes of testing it with my son as I perceived it to be effective and beneficial. Here are the thoughts of Annie Kim, Learning Expert Teacher at the new BASIS school in Brooklyn, New York. I love watching him work and being excited and feeling confident.Īs you all expect superior quality reviews, I did make a special effort to have a certified Special Education teacher who is also my son's tutor use this as part of her teaching plan with my son. This set is unique to the world because it uses LEGO pieces and bricks to help students "build" a story and uses a StoryVisualizer program to help tell it. I can't tell you utterly grateful I am to have their new curriculum for grades 2-5, StoryStarter and StoryVisualizer. A new dimension of teaching and learning has been created by the good folks at LEGO Education. for free? Click HERE and experience StoryVisualizer!ĭo you feel this way about people who haven't taken to Facebook? As if you have to enter another dimension to connect with them? But if you really want to, you do it, don't you? Some of my friends prefer the phone, texting, email, facebook. Sometimes, a student may know the material but have trouble demonstrating that knowledge because there is only one method in which they can demonstrate it.
explain how a chemical change can happen to a potato, explain how you know that it is a chemical change.Īll this is fine but here is the part that bothers me.write a sentence using the word "their".When children start writing in school, it seems as if they are being asked not so much as to be understood but rather it is kind of like a show-you-know-it format ie. Students will build using 1,144 carefully selected pieces to tell their stories. That is, whatever information is provided, it is provided with one primary objective: to be understood. However, as varied as this media is, there is one common goal. To be sure, this list is never-ending as well as ever-changing. Now we have webinars, infographics, podcasts, facebook, and pinterest. How do you get your news and other information that you need to do what you need to do? Email? TV? Radio? Perhaps those are the methods of yesterday.
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