Walking Home has several different themes that involve courage, conflict and hope so we practiced reflecting on themes during a silent gallery walk activity. The activity included several big questions that we responded to with post-it notes and then taking time to read the responses of our classmates. This activity required us to think critically about the big picture – more challenging than many of us expected.
From all the fairy tales, picture books, novels, and movies we’ve read or watched over the years, we’ve become experts at identifying concrete parts of a story - the characters, setting and plot. Theme on the other hand is abstract – it is a deep underlying meaning that runs below the surface of the text. We often interpret theme in different ways so it can also be subjective…and tricky! Walking Home has several different themes that involve courage, conflict and hope so we practiced reflecting on themes during a silent gallery walk activity. The activity included several big questions that we responded to with post-it notes and then taking time to read the responses of our classmates. This activity required us to think critically about the big picture – more challenging than many of us expected. We also explored themes of different picture books, including Running Shoes by Frederick Lipp and Tokyo Digs a Garden by John-Erik Lappano. We challenged ourselves to look for deep-meaning below the surface of the text and thus identify themes. Over the past week, we’ve been having lots of fun programing our Sphero (an app controlled robot ball) using @tickleapp (Tickle). We’ve discovered that when programming our Sphero ball, our commands need to be specific. We didn’t realize that we assume a lot when giving instructions – when we want it to stop, slow down or turn, we need to give clear commands. Thankfully our app allows us to replay our commands and when we recognize errors, we can go back and make changes.
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