Provide a metaview, lifting students into a wider view of the concept. Use another medium (not reading or writing) to connect students' personal knowing to the concept (i.e. visual arts, music, movement, metaphor, etc.) Involve learners in reflective production that blends the emotional and the cognitive.
Maisy the Daisy metaphor.
Objective: To deal with the subdivision of note value metaphorically.
Activity: Create a"Maisy the Daisy" flannel-board or poster board Graphic Display (a simple smiling "daisy" face surrounded by eight removable petals). Maisy is a daisy in the wind. The wind gusts hit her in sets of four. (Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.) Let's clap once for Maisy, and then once for each petal Maisy loses when the wind blows [remove each petal as the wind blows]. The longer Maisy is in the wind, the more petals she loses. Do you see how the whole daisy breaks down into eight smaller petals? Do you also see how those eight smaller petals together equal the whole daisy?
