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This is our book, Fly Away Home. It is about a father and son who live in an airport due to a death in the family that causes them to struggle financially. The story tells about their lives in the airport, and how they are surviving.

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This project was such a unique way to give outreach to parents and students. It provides them with all different types of ways to connect with the book we had. Our book was entitled Fly Away Home. We were given this book and chose to keep it because we immediately were able to come up with some really cool ideas for activities or projects that students could participate in.

I put a variety of ideas on our board but one of my favorites was the shopping dramatic play activity. It is so helpful in teaching children to be mindful about needs vs. wants and could even help them empathize with their parents. Not to mention it is super fun, and can help to develop awesome in-depth conversations.

One of my other favorite additions to the project was the music. I personally connect  strongly to music and I think that a well composed song can evoke all sort of emotions. When my group members and I realized we had a mutual enjoyment of Glee we decided to make all of our songs Glee renditions. Particularly I really like Imagine because in the scene a deaf choir is performing the song, mostly in a speaking voice with inflection. The Glee club acknowledges their struggle and finds beauty in sharing their spoken song and the Glee club's sung version. It's a special and moving scene in the show and fully resembles Standard 16.2.2.B1 ; recognize and tolerate the uniqueness of people in all situations.

My final thoughts on the story and the project is it was an unprecedented outcome. I think when we first read the book and felt that it was dark and rather sad, we were concerned about how we could shine a more positive light on the subject. Once we got the hang of it though, it was really an instant flow of ideas and creativity. I feel like we all did a really good job communicating with each other and adding our individual contributions. It ended up being far more attainable then I think we originally thought it would be.

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I thought this project was a great way to teach children what people go through around the world today. As a group we really took time to focus on how to make this story a fun discussion topic in a classroom. We chose the book Fly Away Home, because after reading the story it leaves the reader with the mindset of appreciating the small things in life.

One of the items I chose to put on this padlet was the story titled Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon. In the story we chose Fly Away Home the main characters (Father and Son) are living in an airport because they are homeless. Everyone else in the airport quickly judges them because of their dirty clothes. The story Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon is a great way for children to understand that you should try to understand where someone comes from first before jumping to conclusions and judging their appearance.

I also chose to incorporate a graphic that shows to always be open-minded. I believe that this graphic would be a great thing to include on a wall of a classroom or even on the classroom door, so that children will walk past it everyday knowing that they should always go into new situations with an open mind. This graphic fits well into our story, because later on in the story their are  people that notice the father and his son are struggling to live and decide to help them without even knowing who it is.

My final thoughts on this story is that I believe that once children have read this book they can talk quietly amongst one another about times they have traveled around the country, or even a time where they have done or received a random act of kindness.

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Recognize and tolerate the uniqueness of all people in all situations.

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Identifying choice based on needs versus wants

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Working against prejudice and having an open mind to different lifestyles

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People judge Molly because she is different, but molly views herself as awesome, and soon her peers will think so too

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This video/song is about having empathy for those who need help and stresses being supportive and empathetic to those in need.

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This book has a central theme of family. We could talk about how important family is and how every family looks different. We can also discuss how not all family is blood and that close friends sometimes become family. For an activity, we could have them practice dramatic play and playhouse.

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Identifying Needs vs Wants

By the end of the teaching of this standard the students should know how to dress what is a need and what is a want.

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Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

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Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

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I learned a lot from this project! Our book dealt with some issues that aren't as fun to talk about during a read-aloud activity. We wanted students to understand the severity of homelessness and how we can help those who are homeless and how we can teach students to avoid homelessness. The activities that I thought of were the Seek first to understand then to be understood activity. This lesson teaches students that we should always listen first and hear what others have to say before we give our help. This is important because our "help" may not be what the person needs. Sometimes the person just needs to be heard and listened to. I also included some music videos along with one of my partners Olivia. We found songs that elicit a message of hope and to rely on the people we love. This activity of incorporating music into the lesson will keep kids engaged and interested.
Overall, this project was a great way to practice putting a read-aloud lesson plan together while also incorporating standards. I also made the activity about flying and putting together the paper airplanes. This activity doesn't directly relate to the stories meaning but it relates to the idea of flying the book is based around. Students actually engineering their paper airplanes will help their fine motor skills and also be a fun collaborative game that the class can play. This is an interactive activity that builds upon students' engineering skills and is just a fun break from the heaviness of talking about homelessness. Overall, our group split our work pretty evenly and we all collaborated to come up with the ideas and activities.

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A shopping dramatic play activity could help children learn about needs vs. wants. Students could be given an amount of money and a grocery list. They could shop for the items they need and want and then you could discuss after their trial what they did well and what could have gone better, and why needs vs. wants are important.

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This song is about keeping strong through hard times and having endurance.

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This book has a similar theme. You never know what someone is going through.

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Magical Little Minds - Read Along Storytime

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👟 Those Shoes 📚 Kids Book Read Aloud Story

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This book is located in an airport. We can talk about the times we are at airports which is most likely for travel. How is this different than what the family is doing in the book? We can also ask the students if they have been on a plane and if so where were they going. For our activity, we will make paper airplanes. This is an interactive activity where students will make their own plane that they will fly around the classroom. We could also have a contest of who's paper airplane flies the farthest.

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When meeting new people it can be easy to jump to conclusions regarding the way they go about their life. Always allow yourself to get to know someone before judging them by the way they present themselves.

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This song is all about empathy and standing by your loved ones even when things get hard. It definitely fits the theme of the book.

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I learned a lot from this project. It pushed me to think outside of the box when thinking of different lessons to connect to the book. With the book that we used it was difficult to try and think of different content areas to connect. This project pushed and challenged my abstract thinking.

I also really enjoyed the book that we based our project on. I think that it had a lot of good lessons to teach. It shows children about important issues in our country that don't necessarily always have a light shine on them. I think that I would definitely consider using this book or the other resources in this project in my future classroom.

Our group didn't necessarily split the work in an organized manner. We all together worked on our overall plan for the project. We all worked on different things that needed to get done. I worked on the play-based lesson about family and also worked on finding standards. I also added some extra aspects like some of the songs linked.

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This song is about being reliable to people you love.

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Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Activity 

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Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Activity 