What does a city need to have?
What does your city look like?
The students began to draw their cities. They talked to each other about the things and places they wanted to include on their picture.
Nicolas “That is the NIS and this is the road for the hotel and this is the forest with the zebras in the forest. There is a train track and it has my home and a hotel and a pond with fish in it and you can get them for eating And there is a zebra eating grass. I go like this all the way, turn and then in the hotel.”
Alejandra “NIS magic school bus is going down. A castle, because the princess is here and he can go from his home, because the queen is here and his home is here. Go here, here to NIS (travelling down the road). Numbers for NIS (Referring to numbers on doors). Open and go into the classrooms. A car is going to NIS. Here it is going to the queen’s house but the queen is here.”
Ruby “This is a school, this is the NIS numbers. This is the house and this is the roof and this is the door and the windows and this is the path that you can go. She has to walk. That is the boy outside playing from the home. The boy is going into school and he says, “Hurry up Lola!” The boy is Charley. The car and the wheels have been pumped out. And this is the car park. You can still walk or drive or go on a train if the school is too far. And Lola is playing on the swing. The arrow says you can go in and you can go out at playtime.
Ethan “Sea grass. It’s raining, and the road. You can walk down on the road. There is a river and something scary is inside.” [In Mandarin]
Amber “Tree, house treasures in the soil. And it has some big grass and small flowers. Cars in the city. We have fire trucks. Mountains, I’m climbing the mountain and can’t find the road. There are toilets for girls and boys. I’m counting numbers. I’m making a cake at my home. Here I go to hospital to see doctor because I’m hurt.” [In Mandarin]
Jasmine “Some flowers. I see many flowers in winter. And some tress. Some apples. I see some cars too. Some beans and they will grow up. I put something on the nail with my sister.” [In Mandarin]
Lawrence “This is sun and this is cloud. It’s sunny. This one is train truck. This is train. And this is supermarket. This is NIS. And this is train station. This is my house. In the house, there is a tent and a window, and a door. This is my bread shop. This is a bug. These three are some cats eating in their home.”
Poli “This is roller coaster. House, supermarket, NIS, police station, and policeman, this is fire and here comes fire truck. Jiwoo, Poli and Poli’s mummy in the house. This is train station. This is sun.” [In Mandarin]
Jiwoo “Supermarket, Poli and Jiwoo’s house.”
[In Korean] “This is a playground, this is a parking space. The bad man come here, the policeman catches the bad man. This is NIS, this is DongFangTianJun, jiwoo and Poli live here. Many friends come to the compound and play here. Playground in the NIS. This is spider web, here is the forest with many tress. Here is the prison and a bad man and a police car.”
https://twitter.com/NISPreKK1/status/1056857287011123200
SLO’s
- Name places in their environment
- Communicate own views about people, places and their immediate environment in different mediums
- Listen to others
Having created maps, a group of students were motivated to create their own city using blocks, trains and other loose parts. They included a supermarket, a school for the teachers and the gated community they lived in.
https://twitter.com/NISPreKK1/status/1057161607384461312