This week, our lesson focused on families. The students were asked to bring in a family portrait to share with the class, but only a few came to class with one, so we had to improvise a little bit. Instead of doing a show and tell of the students' photos, I showed my family photo to the class and asked them questions about it: How many people are there? Who's the tallest/shortest? Who do you think is the oldest/youngest? Why? (They were surprised to find out that in my family, the youngest is also the tallest) Then, the students were able to compare and contrast my family to theirs. The discussion went really well, and everyone understood that all families are different: in size, color, age, ethnicity etc.
The next improvisation moment happened when we realized that some of the students' paintings were going to take longer than we had originally thought. So, we turned the collaborative family tree painting into an activity for students who finished their family portraits early. This way, students who wanted to spend more time on their family portraits could do that, and we were still able to paint the family tree to display the portraits on at the art show.
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