Face Mapping?

Face mapping seems a little unusual, but it was a great way to reinforce cardinal directions.  Students create a portrait of themselves and label the parts.  Next, they had to use cardinal directions to describe what was on their face.   These will be placed in their student portfolios. 

NECCO Graph

We have complied all the information from our individual graphs into a class graph.   Here are some interesting things we noted:

  1.  We thought white would be the color with the most, but it turned out to be pink. 

  2.   The 16 brown ones did not surprise us because when we were graphing a lot of students were saying they did not have any.  The conclusion  was that brown was a rare color. 

  3.  We wondered if pink, which has the most, is the worst color?  Not everyone picked pink as a favorite color.  Most of us preferred the green or yellow. 

  4.  It was suggested that NECCO consider making a blue that tasted like blueberry and/or red that tasted like cherry. 

  I have put all this information and more into a letter to NECCO.  

We will see if our work will have any impact on what NECCO decides to do. 

Mapping Our World

Here are the results of our mapping activity.  You will see these pictures again when looking at your child's portfolio.  I hope they will be able to share with you the important components of a map and explain some of the symbols used.