Similarities and Differences

Today we were looking at physical similarities and differences amount the students in our class.  We had worked with this outcome before and we came up with hand signals to show same (clasping hands together and then pressing inside out) and different (one hand in a fist and the other open). We use these hand signals as visual clues when we talk about same and different. So, today we just began with a short review. The kids did a good job of remembering and were able to give me examples of how they could sort the kids in the class ( boys/girls, glasses/no glasses, etc). Every student got a picture of themselves, plus they picked a picture of a classmate. They then glued them on a paper and they wrote one way that they were the same and one way they were different from their classmate. They did a great job of finding a similarity and a difference!