With the "What Can You See?" project, our students have been able to not only develop a greater understanding about the world around them, but in fact, the project has grown to the point where our students can learn about and appreciate different cultures around the world.
As part of this new and exciting chapter of "We can see" books, one of our JK students (T.B.) recently got back from a trip to Egypt where he was visiting family. He was very excited to share his pictures with us and tell us stories about what he saw there and where he had visited. We had offered to compile his photos and create a digital book to share as part of the project on his families behalf!
We thank T.B. and his family for collecting these wonderful photographs and for letting us put them together into a digital book to share with all of you!
This video, along with our video from A.C. and her family in China, has generated lots of discussion in our classroom as our students have begun to see connections from these "We Can See" books to other books found in our library and at home. T.B. is very proud of where his family comes from and his ability to teach us new things about his culture and country!
Even though the end of the year is approaching rather quickly, we still encourage our families to participate in this wonderful learning opportunity well into the summer months! If you haven't already, please check out our shared learning space for this incredible project by clicking on the link below:
This is wonderful! I shared the post on the "We Can See" blog with my morning class, and as we have been participating in this project for nearly the entire year, they knew immediately what to do: share ideas and questions. I scribed all that I was able to capture while we watched T.B.'s digital book two times, and posted on the blog. They really connected with what they saw and heard.
ReplyDeleteA student in our class just returned from Florida this morning, and brought a flash drive with photos to share with her class! Unfortunately it wasn't compatible with our computer, but it allowed us to see your wonderful post, and then talk about how "T" could make a book too, once we were able to open her photos. We also talked about how all students could share your book and ours, because the links are posted on my school-home connection web page. Our kids, they are connected!
Laurel Fynes
Thornwood PS