Knots on a Counting Rope

Abstract

Brainstorm a list of things that often scare people. Divide the list into things that are real and things that are imaginary. Have students make a watercolor painting of something they think is frightening. Display the paintings. Under each picture, put two labels, “Scary” and “Not Scary.” Have students “sign in” under the label that describes their feelings. Discuss how people are not necessarily frightened by the same things. Have students find out for whom or under what circumstances they were named. Share their findings in the classroom. Enlist the aid of the library media specialist in locating books or internet resources that provide meanings of names. Have students illustrate the meaning of their name without using words. Display the illustrations on a bulletin board and see if the students can guess the meanings and whose name is illustrated.

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