"Not A Box"

This week, we shared the story "Not A Box" by Antoinette Portis with the students. This story is about a bunny that uses his imagination to pretend that his box is a race car, a mountain, a hot air ballon and many other things. We then presented the students with two large boxes. The students decided to turn one into a train and the other into a rocketship. Here are some pictures of us while we were making the rocketship.

Joel said, "We need a door!". Hussein said it should be a rectangle shape. Dalida helped to make cone for the top of the rocketship.

Faith, Jazmin and Nour made an astronaut outfit for Trenton. Tristan and Brooke used boxes to make a computer for the rocketship. Sabrina wrote the word "BLASTOFF" under the launch button that Aidan and Hussein made.

All of the students worked well together to determine the shapes needed for the windows and the door. The students used red tissue paper for the fire coming out of the exhaust, and we are now working on creating wings. Trenton told us that they need to be triangles, so we will continue working on this together.

The Box

A Box Inquiry

"What could you do with a box?"

Many students were interested in playing with the box. 

We decided to list and vote for the BEST box idea.

A dragon, a house and a car were the children's choices.

As you can see the car was their favourite idea.

Ms. Palmer cut a large hole in the box for the students to be able to sit and drive in the car.

To decorate the car, students cut paper and shapes, drew pictures and wrote words on construction paper.

Students took turns playing in the car.  Two at a time for 5 minutes each.  They took turns by signing up.

Student's Voice

This is what the students said about the car ---

Alex- "I liked it when I had a turn."

Savannah- "My favourite part was driving the car."

Lydia- "I was pretending I was in the firetruck and drive to a fire.  I was a firefighter girl!"

Lucas - "I was pretending that I was in the firetruck and that I was a fireman. Alex and I were putting the fire out!"

Cheyenne - "My favourite part was sitting in the front."

Gracie - "I was driving in the front. And I like Hannah playing with me in the car."