We have completed another Legos in the Library after school program, this time with grades K-2. We began each day with a "handful of bricks" activity where students used the same 30 bricks to build something different each class given a 10 minute time frame. Then we read a story and built a Lego creation inspired by that story. We read and built around the following stories and themes: The Adventures of Beekle by Dan Santat - Imaginary Creatures Clink by Kelly DiPucchio - Robot Friends How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers by Mordicai Gerstein - Vehicles Mr. Wuffles - Alien Space Vehicles
Who doesn't love a robot? Kindergarteners listened to the early reader chapter book Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover by Cece Bell. Students enjoyed hearing about Rabbit & Robot's adventures and I got to practice reading in a robot voice. We talked about the character traits of Rabbit & Robot and retold what happened in each chapter. Students also created their own robot buddy using geometric shapes cut out from construction paper. See more robots below.
The robot story was part of a larger unit on early reader books that feature friends. I've separated early readers in our library to make it easier for emerging reader students to find books that they can actually read. In addition to Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover, we read Mouse & Mole: Winter Wonderland by Wong Herbert Yee, Sam and the Firefly by P.D. Eastman (and watched a cool firefly video for students who had never seen a real firefly that you can see below), and Flora & Flamingo by Molly Idle.
