Monday 16 January 2012

Living in Today and Yesterday #1

We have begun our new unit: Living in Today and Yesterday (Then and Now). The children will explore the similarities and differences between the way people lived long ago and the way people live today.


The Water Group brainstormed what they know about the past and made comparisons as to what they did as a baby and to what they do now. We read the book When I was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of her Youth by Jamie Lee Curtis and the children made their own book telling their own changes of growing up.


To further the concept of looking into the past, we created a timeline. The children pretended to travel into the past by a time machine to find the year they were born. As we were traveling in the time machine,  the children chanted enthusiastically, "Traveling, traveling, traveling to the past".

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