For my real kinesthetic kids, would that be enough for them to integrate it? Maybe not, so I want to setup an opportunity for them to manipulate something by having those pieces that they could put on the ground, it lets them physically feel it better, feeling that paper, I have to really turn it. There is a difference between curved and zigzag and now I see. Some of you who had zigzag you laid one paper this way, one paper this way, one paper this way, one paper that way, was it a zigzag? Absolutely, but feedback wise I may have come past you and said, I agree with you, that zigzag but now think about if we added movement to it.
In the real world when we zigzag, do we zigzag like this, this, this, this? No, so what do we have to do, we have to expand it a bit and so they went back and they changed it, excellent, thank you. They went back and they expanded it a little bit to really feel that shift in their body.
Then I wanted to connect to the real world for them, they know the 'Wizard of Oz', they loved the movie the 'Wizard of Oz' so we acted it out in a very safe way. From there, I want to show my first and second graders that if I connect my pathways they definitely can lead me from one place to another. In the 'Wizard of Oz' when Dorothy first leaves Munchkin Land, it is a circular pathway. When she gets out to where the scarecrow is, it's a straight pathway, the criss-cross. Remember the scarecrow says do I want to go that way, or do I want to go that way?
When they come out of the forest after meeting the cowardly lion and they hit the poppy field, they start to run straight across and there is a little bit of a zigzag as Dorothy starts to -- from the effect of the poppy, she starts to go down and the other characters do. That brings it to life for the kids, I can say go home and watch the movie and you pick it out. And now when you are in the car with your mom or dad driving or whoever you are in the car with, you can say -- you can sit in the back and freak them out and go, we are now going in a straight pathway up the road, oops look out curve ahead. Oh, oh! Mom, zigzag you ran off the road or whatever, okay.
So you could do that and again real world but they are still doing it, it's not we only do it here, we leave it here and that's it, that's the only time that we explore. So bring it back to real world connections.
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