Time: 45 min. - 60 minutes
Goal: Students will watch the grade 2 SILKAT video. Fill out K and W of the KWL chart.
Please Ask students to bring in, email or send pictures of their family members Dad, Mom, and Grandparents, great-grandparents too if possible. Send Home a note to parents.
Fill out family tree chart as much as possible then send home with students to finish for homework.
Show students your family tree model. Then review the Rubric. Then do a I See, I think, I wonder paper.
Hand out stencils and pictures of each student to the students. Have then trace the outside of the heart and cut it out. They can also trace and cut out the felt for their picture and for the other 6 hearts they are going to make.
Materials: Stencils, individual photos of the children, felt, sharp scissors, markers to trace the stencils, KWL worksheet, SILKAT Video, Rubric
Prep for Day 2: Laminate heart shaped photos and hot glue them together. Trim the edges so they are even.
Time: 45-60 min.
Goal: Students will begin sewing
Review Vocabulary: Family Tree, Maternal Grandparents, Paternal Grandparents, Step-parents,
Whole group:
*Thread the needles and have students help others who need help
*Teach students how to make a knot at the end of a thread. Video available.
Small Group Instruction: Writing Group, Sewing Group, Felt tracing and cutting Group, possibly a Book Reading Group
I would have 3-5 students per group.
Writing Group: Fill out family tree worksheet
Sewing Group: Learn the beading process. Advanced sewers can do around the edge ornament style beading. see Video Beginners: in and out stitch with two beads per stitch. See video.
Materials: Thread, Needles, scissors, Family Tree Worksheet, Beads,
Time: 45-60 min.
Goal: Students will learn how to do Peer Critique. See Ron Berger, Austin's Butterfly.
Teach Students about Peer Critique. Talk about Being Kind, Being Specific and Being Helpful.
Have 1st meeting with children to see how their sewings are coming along. Should I have a sheet to go with this?
Have students continue sewing, working on cutting out felt for parents and grandparents, and writing their family tree history.
Time: 45-60 minutes
Goal: Sew
Students will work on their sewings
Time: 45- 60 minutes
Goal: Sew
Time: 45- 60 minutes
Goal: Sew/ Work on Voice Threads
Materials: Family Voice Thread Worksheet
Student sample Voice Threads: Annette's Voice Thread, Seth's Voice Thread
Time: 45- 60 minutes
Goal: Sew/ Work on Voice Threads
Time: 45- 60 minutes
Goal: Sew/ Work on Voice Threads
If kids get done early it would be cool if they made a Voicethread of their project.
Time: 45- 60 minutes
Goal: Watch presentations and have work time. Those who are done can be making heart ornaments. If students brought in Great- grandparents pictures and they were done early they were able to go one generation further.
Finish KWL Chart L Section
Time: 45- 60 minutes
Goal: Presentation
Finish Watching Presentations