i had to make my own sticksonas eventually, so meet zip zap and zop! i'll make a longer post explaining their lore eventually, but they were abandoned, faulty science experiments that had to grow up on their own together. they are made of pure code and electricity (and occasionally have glitches).

they were inspired by a joke cherry made in the avf server that i took seriously LOL (another doodle under the cut)

zippity doo da

creature/effect 

This week we were assigned to take notes on the Engel’s reading pg. (205-212). What we observed were the following key points.

The more a child grows their ability to describe an experience grows. This relates to the Meier reading, which says drawing is important in children’s understating and learning writing. The more student grows their ability to write expands exponentially if they include drawings or pictures to help them describe an experience in writing. For the students who finish faster we have them draw what they wrote in stick figures.

Children are rarely listened to we often neglect them by correcting them or not expecting a meaning in their stories. Interactive reading and writing is a way to help avoid this, it also has helped us get to know our students a better, and created a close bond between us (msu students & students).

Different aspects of storytelling vary with the cultural values, and habits of the child’s community. Some communities stress there to be a message in every good story so the child raised in that community is likely to be able to pinpoint the theme of a story or tell a similar story. This week when I was with the students I noticed that some students tell stories in first person easily while others would rather tell a story in third person. No matter the situation whether from what type of community they are from some of them still struggled. So we would help them facilitate I would help the students struggling with the story by drawing and helping them plan out their story.

  Activities

Opening Activity: “Zip, Zap, Zop” You Zip someone they Zap someone else not the Zip, then the person who was Zapped Zops someone else and goes on really fast until someone messes up.

Closing Activity: “Down by the bank of the hanky panky”, the students seem to enjoy playing this game and it will be set as a motivator to get them to write faster.  http://youtu.be/3aas7bwcjms

Question:

I bet a lot of you are wondering why we are called "Zip Zap Zop Kids" well I'd figure I'd tell you why!

Zip Zap Zop is an improv game where basically your in a circle and one person says "zip" to a random person in the circle and that person say "zap" to another random person in the circle and that person says "zop" to another person...and it repeats itself. This sounds simple and silly but so much learning and evolution occurs with this game! Especially with kids!

Children learn how to make eye contact, how to listen, and how to stay involved while having a good time! I love this game and love seeing children play something that sounds like a few words...but is so much more :)

Below are the ZIP ZAP ZOP LAUGHING ZEBRAS...say that 3 times fast ;)