Borrowing the idea from the amazing school librarian, Andy Plemmons, from the Barrow Media Center in Georgia, Pre-K learned about “fractals” and how it helps to know the words to songs to better understand a song’s meaning and purpose. We started by listening to the song, Let It Go, from the movie, Frozen, and paid particular attention the word, Fractals, in the song. Elsa sings, My power flurries through the air into the ground, My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around, And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast, I’m never going back, the past is in the past… We read the non-fiction book, Mysterious Patterns Finding Fractals in Nature, by Sarah C. Campbell, and discovered that fractals are unique and repetitive patterns in nature. After pointing out fractals in the book, we, then, spent some more time pointing out fractals we saw all around us like patterns on socks, shirts, skirts, the library tables, and in nature. Students were given the opportunity to draw “fractals” they had come up with using plain white paper, crayons, pencils, and colored pencils.
P.S.110 The Florence Nightingale School Library 