CRISS Strategy: Spider Web Map

Two years ago I took a course called "CRISS". The course was about the implementation of strategies than empower our students and take them to a higher order thinking. It took me a while to learn all the strategies and to figure out which ones worked well with such young students. This is one of them that works great  for collaborative learning and which my students enjoy very much. It is called: the spider web map! 

Here I attach the link to the website in case you want to learn more about CRISS. 

http://www.projectcriss.com/

"The day of the Death" - El dia de los muertos

For the celebration of the "El dia de los muertos" the first graders learnt about the different traditions for "All Saints day" in Spain, Mexico and in the USA. They created little "altares" with shoeboxes in representation of the "altares" that people make in Mexico.