Kunkel Students Tie Together Curriculum, Candyland and Milkshakes
Kunkel Elementary fourth graders began the school year learning about personal narratives (a true story told from a person's own experiences) through the District’s language arts curriculum, Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA). Students learned different literary tactics, like sensory details, similes, and dialogue, and used those skills to write their own personal narrative about their first day of fourth grade.
Students marked the completion of the unit by sharing their narratives with classmates, all while enjoying milkshakes and playing the classic children’s game Candyland.
So how exactly do milkshakes and Candyland relate to language arts curriculum? Along with writing their own personal stories students read excerpts from the book
Small Steps, The Year I Got Polio. The book was written by Peg Kehret and chronicles her journey of being diagnosed with polio at age twelve. In the story Kehret shares that after not being able to eat or drink for eight days, she was finally able to drink a milkshake. The book goes on to explain that in 1948 a teacher named Eleanor Abbott was hospitalized with polio and noticed younger children in the hospital didn’t have any activities to keep occupied. Abbott created a fun and colorful game that required no reading or counting. The game came to be known as Candyland.
MASD is proud to have creative educators who celebrate learning and foster a love of reading and writing in our young students. MASD would also like to thank our parent volunteers for making the milkshakes.
Students Ritesh Magar, Destiny Fragoso, Daniela Mercedes Rosario, and Kenzie Hawkins (back) celebrate the completion of the CKLA Personal Narrative Unit with milkshakes.
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| Adam Abbirou, Teddy Fleck, Jordan Robbins, and Kayla Golesich prove you are never too old for Candyland. Through the personal narrative unit students learned the origin of the classic game. |
After sharing their personal narratives about the first day of fourth grade Aiden Ponnett, Lucas Wingard and Eddie Navarro have a competitive, but friendly, game of Candyland.
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