Making a Family Book in the Puzzle Primes (3 year-olds)
In the Puzzle Primes classroom we have been working on our Family Book. Our Family book consists of pictures and descriptions of the pictures narrated by the Puzzle Primes. At the beginning of the school year the Puzzle Primes Teachers ask families to send in photos and over the course of the school year we assemble a book so that we can get to know each other better. It is so fun to flip through the book and talk about the different people in the photographs. Sometimes it’s hard to be at school away from the people we love and it can feel so nice to be able to look at pictures that remind us of home. While looking at the family book Enzo said, “we can be with our family when we are reading the family book” and Quincy said, “I like my pages.” It’s clear that looking at our family helps the Puzzle Primes feel happy at school. They seem so proud to share their pages with their friends and teachers. They are able to independently look through the book and guide each other through their pages. As a class we will continue to enjoy this lovely book full of people that we love.
Some things the Puzzle Primes said while looking through the Family Book:
“Mamma and Pappa, they got married.” – Kestrel
“My sister when she was really little, zero years old.” – Enzo
“Mimi holding me, I was three and I couldn't talk when I was a baby.” – Ruby
“My mom going on an airplane. She was sitting on the airplane while the man was driving the airplane.” – Nora
“Kid kid three, wait that was a long long time ago. I think I was a baby in that picture.” – Rohman
“I’m holding my tiny rhino and there’s Mamma and that’s me Frances.” – France
“Reading, but we can’t read, we are just pretending to read.” – Quincy
“I have a lot of aunts and uncles!” – Helen
“My Daddy and my Mommy at their wedding. I was in my Mommy’s belly.” – Neff
“That’s my Daddy.” – Malcolm
Below are drawings that the Puzzle Primes made of their families. Each Puzzle Prime got the chance to sit down one on one with a teacher to create an image of their family. These drawings are displayed in the Family book alongside each childs collection of photographs.
