One of our lessons for Salamander Room was on Parallel Construction (in writing). I hesitated to teach this to my five year old, but then the word construction kept rolling around in my head, and I thought of a way to relay the concept…MEGABLOCKS (thanks so much Brian, they come in handy!).
I taped the phrases from the story to the blocks making sure that the phrases that matched were on similar blocks. I demonstrated how the conversation between the mother and son was balanced as I built the blocks up. After I was done, both sides were the same and we had a (drum roll, please) parallel construction! Elijah has rebuilt the towers over and over again this week and read the words on the blocks. He may not fully understand, but we're building (hee hee) a foundation!
Many times they don't understand then when it is explained latter they do and it just clicks..They love that felling
We used the mini book on HSS. We just arranged them.. I like the block idea though…
Wow! What a neat visual!
And to think I skipped that lesson when we did Salamander Room! Hmmm, sounds like we need a re-row!
Edited by amibrain on Aug. 24, 2007 at 9:38 AM