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  • Boronda Meadows Elementary School
  • Salinas, CA
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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This year my classroom and I have been talking about social issues that students encounter in schools such as bullying. In our class meetings we have talked about how we can deal with these issues in school and came up with some great ways to handle them. They wanted to share their coping ideas with their peers. I was also thinking of an inquiry project that will take my students through a journey of writing a narrative story and helping my students develop more self confidence and assist them with fluency. We came up with writing a narrative story, converting it into a script, using puppets to present school social issues with puppet presentations and having the puppets show the students how to deal with these problems. Students have been writing their scripts and we hope that soon we can begin to make our puppets. We will be using the styrofoam balls as their characters' heads. We will be using the felt for the puppets' skin color and the yarn for the hair as well as the pipe cleaners. The glue gun will be used to glue everything onto the styrofoam head. The styrofoam balls can be easily manipulated to make them into different shapes for all sorts of characters such as animals and people. We hope that our presentation will help our audience (students and teachers) realize of their options if they come face to face with a similar situations that our puppets will encounter during the presentation. This project will allow my students to share what they have learned this year about social issues and provide them the opportunity to inform their understanding to our peers. My students will grasp the elements of a narrative story and their reading fluency will improve, especially their expressive reading.

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This year my classroom and I have been talking about social issues that students encounter in schools such as bullying. In our class meetings we have talked about how we can deal with these issues in school and came up with some great ways to handle them. They wanted to share their coping ideas with their peers. I was also thinking of an inquiry project that will take my students through a journey of writing a narrative story and helping my students develop more self confidence and assist them with fluency. We came up with writing a narrative story, converting it into a script, using puppets to present school social issues with puppet presentations and having the puppets show the students how to deal with these problems. Students have been writing their scripts and we hope that soon we can begin to make our puppets. We will be using the styrofoam balls as their characters' heads. We will be using the felt for the puppets' skin color and the yarn for the hair as well as the pipe cleaners. The glue gun will be used to glue everything onto the styrofoam head. The styrofoam balls can be easily manipulated to make them into different shapes for all sorts of characters such as animals and people. We hope that our presentation will help our audience (students and teachers) realize of their options if they come face to face with a similar situations that our puppets will encounter during the presentation. This project will allow my students to share what they have learned this year about social issues and provide them the opportunity to inform their understanding to our peers. My students will grasp the elements of a narrative story and their reading fluency will improve, especially their expressive reading.

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