For our last lesson in our January rotation, we learned that students can have the same or different feelings about something. We started out the lesson by talking about what same and different mean, and then playing a game of Simon Says where students had to do the same or different action from what I was doing. Students used their skills for learning to be successful in the game, and the brain builder provided them with an opportunity to start thinking about what same and different look like.
We had a visit from Puppy and Snail, who were talking about how they liked to ride the merry-go-round. Puppy likes to ride fast on the merry-go-round. Snail prefers to ride slowly. They have different feelings about the same thing! We spent the rest of our lesson talking about two boys who were playing on the chain ladders on the playground. Eddie enjoyed playing, and appeared to be happy and excited. JeVonne was afraid to climb the chain ladders. We talked about what we noticed that was the same for the two boys, and what we noticed that was different. We talked about how we thought they felt, and which clues we had seen that showed us that feeling.
