California Geography and Block Building

October 20, 2009

                  We will be wrapping up our unit on California Geography in the next couple of weeks. Children are currently working on reports about California's four major regions. The students are working in groups of three to write about six topics about each region: Coastal, Mountain, Central Valley, and Desert. They have been using a webquest designed by Ms. Freeland to research their topics in the computer lab. They are working on webbing their ideas to turn into cohesives paragraph, which they will eventually put together.

                  The big event for California Geography will take place next week, as children use the Community Hall to "build" California out of blocks and butcher paper. They will be using the information they gathered for their reports to identify things and places they want to include in their section of California. As a team they have to not only collaborate to map out their region, they have to work with the other teams to make sure everything is placed where is should be. This is the first time I am doing block building with children and am very excited to have it as part of our curriculum for this unit. Any parent help during the block building would be wonderful. I envision the adults in the room supporting the problem solving as children work together to figure out how to make everything fit as it should. Please let me know if you are interested in participating.

I am excited to see the outcome....

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