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This is a picture of our local fire station visiting our students at school. Concepts-Community helpers & Fire Safety
Function- students identify community helpers and their roles with in the community.
Change-students are not in the classroom for this lesson, rather interacting with it and the actual firefighters.
Causation-we have 1 fire drill a month. Students are normally fearful because they are still differentiating real & play dangers, like fire.
Connection- students make connections to real community helpers. They experience being inside a fire engine, what safety gear looks & why the fire fighter must wear their gear, they also assist in spraying a fire hose.
Responsibility- students understand that they must practice safety in emergency situation to be safe.

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Form: Math based calendar reviewed each day during morning meetings.
Function, develops sequencing skills, number recognition, mental math concepts, concepts of time, patterns, number sense etc.
Connection, students make personal connections by identifying birthdays, holidays, special school days, etc. Students sing, move, and discuss connections during morning meeting
Change, calendar changes daily by a star student (the student below did not want to use a stool to reach, she 'can do it'! attitude).
Responsibility, each week a student leads the calendar time & activities with my assistance. Students range from enthusiastic to nervous, however it builds confidence and responsibility. Students who are on the carpet are leading how to lead by watching and interacting during our morning meetings.

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Form, It's a calendar that we review daily during morning circle. This helps us strengthen number sense.
Function, Everything has a purpose or role that can be  investigated.
Connection, How is it connected to other things. We relate weather and seasons to the calendar, days of the week to our daily routine.

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Cooking Classes Make children learn change and be responsible for their own, and to find and change the things they do, and to reflect on their children's differences....

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It is a group study to find the correct connection between a picture and a consonant. Children have the responsibility for the consonant to match the image by using the child's perspective on the decision.

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Hourglass
-Form:  An eight shape, round.
-Function: It is a timer during very short activities.
-Causation: It helps understanding the beginning and the end of our turn.
-Change: Knowledge about time.
-Connection:  With our everyday life.
-Perspective: Sense of time, we all share the time.
-Responsibility: Children are responsible of their. For instance, when it is time to tidy up and go for lunch, it is not time to start an other activity.
-Reflection: Children can respect the time throughout the day.

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Circle time.
-Form: In a corner of the classroom. We are all sitting around the carpet.
-Function: We use this part of the classroom to start our days and end our days  in this same place.
-Causation: We can look through the window and see what is the weather like. We also read, sing, talk about our five senses, the days...
-Change: Knowledge about the weather.
-Connection: With everyday life. Everyday and everywhere the weather exists.
-Perspective: Helps understanding the sense of time. The children develop their vocabulary.
We share a moment, we stay together.
-Responsibility: During circle times we have rules. For instance, we raise our hand if we want to  share an idea, we listen to each other...
-Reflection:  We live in a community so we learn about community life, respect...

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Monthly Vocabulary Words:

Form: Rectangular bulletin boards with rectangular month sign and rectangular vocabulary cards

Function: children can use vocabulary word wall for writing; oral story-starters; visual aids

Causation: visual aids provide a base for visual learners; tactile aids for kinethestic learners;

Change: Changes monthly based on themes

Connection: connects to monthly themes

Perspective: children have different perspective on the vocabulary words and different opinions

Responsibility: children are responsible for being able to recognize vocab words and use them correctly

Reflection: children can accurately use vocabulary words in stories, sentences, and context

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Calendar:

Form: Rectangular monthly calendar

Function: daily morning calendar time; count how many days until Halloween, count how many days in the month so far; read our ABAB pattern; understanding how many days there are until a future event

Causation: To tell children what day of the week it is; what day in the month it is; gives them a sense of time and sequencing; extend pattern; understanding concept of before and after

Change: Date changes daily; month changes every 30/31 days;

Connection: ABAB pattern connects to a month theme of Halloween and pumpkins; Connects to computer lab time as well as morning interactive writing

Perspective: Every day is a new day; new things to learn and room for personal growth

Responsibility: being able to tell digits that make up the individual number; extending their rote counting skill; count to tell how many

Reflection: children can measure their learning by how much they could do at the beginning of the month, at the middle of the month, and at the end of the month

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Form: World map

Function: Visual aid to show the different continents and countries throughout the world. Students also learn about the equator, hemispheres, and lines of longitude and latitude.

Causation: The map is in different colors to distinguish the different countries and shading shows terrain.

Change: Maps have changed throughout time. (geography, names, countries)

Connection: We can refer to the world map to show the importance location has on culture.

Perspective: How can a map scale change the perspective of the map?or emphasize that different people from different parts of the world have different cultures and perspectives.

Responsibility: Everyone in the world is connected, and we have a responsibility to take care our world, people and the environment.

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Form: The plant is planted in soil and has roots, stems, and leaves.

Function: The plant takes in CO2, sunlight, and water to make sugar and oxygen through the process of photosynthesis.

Causation: Plants are not mobile, they must make their own food through photosynthesis.

Change: Plants start as seeds and change shape as they grow. Students will see the plant grow throughout the year.

Connection: Plants and animals rely on plants
for food and oxygen.

perpective: How can human behavior
affect the growth of plants? Positively and negatively

Responsibility: We have a responsibility to take care of our earth and all of creation. Students must water our class plant in order for it to survive.

Reflection: How do we know that plants are taken care of? What does a healthy plant look like?

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Weekly Books:

Form: Books of all shapes and sizes

Function: visual aid to remind students of what we are learning this week; provide print experience and awareness for students; provide information on weekly themed topic

Causation: source of information that students can refer to and explore; teach print awareness, interactive letter recognition, and parts of books

Change: change weekly based on theme, letter of the week, and different activities

Connection: All themes connect to an overarching monthly theme

Perspective: books provide students with experiences of different people and their world views

Responsibility: student’s responsibility to treat books properly; learn about the word around them

Reflection: students can tell what information is provided by the books; visual aids provide learning for visual learners; auditory learning available for auditory learners

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Weather

Form: Two rectangular signs telling what it is; two bears to dress according to weather

Function: tells the weather outside; shows students what to wear outside

Causation: so children can know the weather and explain the changes that are happening in the world around them

Change: weather changes daily

Connection: Tells children how they should dress, if they should go outside, what they should bring with them, etc

Perspective: children might see a cloudy day differently from others; gives children a change to express different opinions on the outside world (likes the cold, hates the rain, likes it cloudy, likes it sunny, etc)

Responsibility: Children have a responsibility to be aware of their surroundings, make observations; “special” person checks weather and reports back to class about observations

Reflection: Children all have different perspectives; see what different children decide to wear in different types of weather

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Form makes learning about shapes, colors.

Change can be connected to Lego with their own creativity.

Responsibility When the toy is finished, the toy must be stored.

Reflection Lego toys will reflect the imagination of children's play. By shaping shapes.

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Form self-learning by thinking and practicing their own work.

Function to know the main function of the train that must run on the tracks.

Perspective makes a picture of the train in the imagination of children.

Responsibility I have to finish my work on time.

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This is a board representing the change of matters from solid to liquid and to gas.

Change -  It is clear that the changes of matter will make the students understand the matter's status and how it can change in the real world.

Responsibility - In learning, students have to take the responsibility in researching or inquiring about matters.

Perspective -  Students will perceive the real world differently, such as water can become a solid state when it is in the fridge.  Teachers will ask them to apply this change to other objects in their immediate environment and they can tell their perspectives from they see at home or around the school.

Reflection - Students will reflect on what they see from immediate environment, and how they feel about the wonder of nature.

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This is a picture telling an activity for students. They are learning A-Z with their own inquiry.

Form - Students will learn forms and shapes of each English letter. They will learn to move hands and fingers which will be the foundation of their hand writing.

Function - Students will understand the function of letters in alphabetical order. They will also learn how to use each letter to form simple words.

Causation -  Students will practice pronunciation of each letter for words. . Without letters, they will not be able to learn sounds.

Connection - They will know that letters and words have a link. Then they can connect words and letters with concrete objects that words represents, such as cats, dogs, or ants.

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Form:Bond comments and knowledge
Function:It is a learning center of learning system of each unit of learning.
Connection:Linking knowledge Topics Topics in each subject to the subject.
Causation:It is the goal of learning that will lead to success in each topic.

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Form Play ground.

Function : Learn through playing.
Causation :After the students have learned in the classroom. Students relax outside the classroom at the playground. Enjoy with friends And learn to live together.
Reflection : How to care for each other Caring for each other

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Form - Its shape of the toy represents a car that can move.

Change - from small components, they can be assembled into a bigger piece of toy. So, they can change.

Reflection - Students will be able to use their imaginative ideas to construct objects from small parts.

Connection -  They can learn about shapes and color that they are interconnected and be parts of each other.

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Form - study in a big group; U-shape group.

Function -  Students will learn to concentrate and listen to their peers in this U-shape group. So, the shape will help and encourage students to focus.

Causation - This shape will  make the view clear to the eyes of students. They will also understand and hear what the teachers are teaching at the middle.

Connection -  The students can link this U-shape to real letters in English. They can think of grouping in other letter shapes.

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Form – It has a round shape; concrete and can touch.

Function – To cook food.

Causation – After cooking, it will have a good smell

Connection – eggs, water, oil

Change – Raw eggs change into solid state with white color.

Responsibility – Students must be careful when they are frying the eggs.

Perspective – Frying egg is a good way to cook clean food.

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Form – Toothbrush is made of coloured plastic with nylon bristles and cup is like a round shaped object.

Function – They can make your teeth cleaner.

Causation – After lunch, your teeth are required to be cleaned.

Connection – You need a toothbrush, toothpaste, water, cup to clean your teeth.

Change – Your teeth will be whiter or cleaner after brushing.

Responsibility – it deals with self-management and daily routine activity.

Perspective – It is about wellbeing and cleanliness.

Reflection – We have to clean our teeth every day, so that we can be healthy.

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This is a picture of twigs and acorns which our children collected from a park.

Form: Dried twigs and dried acorns.

Causation: After a typhoon, we found lots of twigs and acorns on the ground in a park.

Change: We use the twigs and the acorns to make autumn ornaments. We also use some acorns for counting.

Responsibility: Since twigs are pointy, children pay attention not to hurt themselves and friends when they use them.

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This is a picture of the kitchen area in my classroom.

Function: place for pretend play

Change: Children use this area as a kitchen. They also change this area into a hospital or airport or whatever they need for the pretend play at the moment.

Connection: By using a window on the kitchen wall, children can play other things such as a puppet show.

Responsibility: Children share the space with other friends. They also take care of the toys.

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This is a picture of a shape puzzle

Form:  board is square and flat, has many different shapes on it.

Function: identifying and matching shapes

Causation: the board allows for easy storage and use, the pegs on the shapes help us hold them.

Change: we can use the pieces separately to explore other ways shapes are used.

Connection: Can sort them by color, or size, can see what you can make if you put them together

Perspective: would the board be useful if it was a different shape or if it were a cube?

Responsibility: students learn to respect materials by keeping track of the pieces, making sure they clean up nicely.

Reflection: Why do the shapes only fit in one spot on the board? How do we know this?

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This is a picture of the blackboard in my classroom.

Form:  rectangle, flat

Function: writing on, or posting things on

Causation: being flat suits its purpose, allowing for easy use

Change: Since you can post things on it using magnets you can change it to use during different lessons. You can post a poster sized paper on it to make charts for classroom collaboration.

Connection: You can use it to display many things.

Perspective: Would it be as useful if it were a different shape, or if it was not flat?

Responsibility: Teaches students to care for classroom materials by taking turns cleaning the board.

Reflection: Students can think about if the blackboard suits its purpose by drawing on it and using it themselves.

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This is a picture of our calendar area.
Function: math skills, visual aids, sequencing skills
Change: how have calendars changed over time?
Connection: calendars can be used to talk about different events, numbers and number talks used in math as well
Perspective: is there anything else we can add to make this area more useful?
Responsibility:  helps students understand the importance of behaving respectfully and responsibly around each other

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This is a picture of the library in my room.
Function: book storage, designated reading area
Change: students use the carpet area for games during centers, or for a calm down space when needed
Connection: helps students collaborate and connect with one another
Responsibility: teaches how to care for our resources and keep our books in good condition