The Early Childhood Education classes in my school use an amazing and inspirational curriculum called Tools of the Mind. The curriculum travels through the Magic Tree House Series with Jack and Annie throughout the Kindergarten level. Kindergarten students are traveling to medieval times through the land of castles and knights. I stumbled across this project concept on pinterest, and had to try it! We began of course, with our learning targets (the goal of what students are learning and able to do by the end of this lesson):
I can name different parts of a castle.
I can design my own castle through printmaking.
We began with understanding the word architecture, and architect. We then moved in to some architectural elements of a castle. Our four vocabulary words specific to castles were.....
Tower Drawbridge Arch Turrets
We practiced saying some of those tough words, figuring out and finding them on different pictures of castles, then learned what printmaking was. Students were best able to connect it to stamping like they have done in their classroom. Now came the fun part, explaining to the students we were using legos, but not to build, but to print/stamps! I wish I could have captured the looks on their faces as I did a demo of how we do this responsibly.... They're minds were blown away in shock, excitement, and a little confusion(because legos are for building after all!). Check out the photos of the process and final products below!
As you can see we had a blast becoming architects and designing our own castles!!
A very special Bancroft ROAR to the parents who donated some legos to this awesome project! Without these parents responding on such short notice to a request of such a loved and cherished item, we couldn't have had this fun and great learning opportunity!!
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