Before the first day of school at Montiford Elementary School, all of the Kindergarten teachers met to discuss units they planned to address during the new school year. They discussed the strengths of each teacher, such as math and literacy, and planned ways to use their expertise to support their own students’ learning. Teacherswith strengths in a particular area created activities for all of the other teachers to use. The teachers decided that they would start by centering all of their first two weeks of instruction and classroom experiences on friendship. Theydecoratedtheir classrooms with symbols and images that represent healthy friendships. They selected a list of characteristics that good friends share and then found books that model these characteristics. What instructional format did these Kindergarten teachers use to encourage their students to make interdisciplinary connections as they learned about one major theme?
