Friday, January 23, 2009 - Battle of Sluys
Cameron loves our narration cards. He is still paying attention to the details of our readings and must internalize what is going on to reproduce it in his own way. But this helps to break it up from always just telling the story back. He loves drawing from the card pile to see what he gets.
For King Edward III and the Battle of Sluys, he drew the "Act out story using your toys" card. I left him alone for about five minutes and told him to set up.
The tall white robot is King Edward III and the yellow "workmen" are the English. The blue "police" are the French. Now he told me that he didn't have any ships because that is where the battle takes place but I was supposed to use my imagination.
The last part of the narration had the fool telling the French king that his men had lost the battle.
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Sunday, February 1, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by MoreLittleWilsons
Love it. A while back there were several elections going on at the same time, or same time period. My boys would play cars, and "vote" for who would be mayor, who would be the garage mechanic, and who would be the civil engineer. The civil engineer got to design the lego track and where the town was, the garage mechanic would soup up the cars and give them more powerful engines, and the mayor was the HEAD guy, he could make any changes.. and he collected the taxes.. and they wrote everything down, and how much people owed them etc.. love it when they internalize... what ever they're learning.. and then incorporate it into their play.
