How Are You Smart?

How We are Smart Board

Miss Trayers over at Not Just Child's Play had a lovely post about multiple intelligences a few weeks ago.  She used How We are Smart to introduce the kinds of smart.  I got the book from the library a couple of days ago and we have been reading smart by smart.  Then we thought about how we might learn best. 

I printed a page that had a simple graphic for each of the "smarts."  (Just did a google image search for one.) 

Then we started thinking about what one best fit us and how we would show that.

"I am picture smart because I make pictures to show my ideas."

"I am music smart because I am good at music."

"I am picture smart because I love drawing.  I can use drawing for math and tell stories."

"I am picture smart because I like inventing things."

"I am math smart because I can do subtraction, plus, mulitplication, and division..."it goes on:-)

I didn't give a lot of direction for what they did to show how they were smart.  I did have mine finished and I wrote going around the edge, in a circle.  So some kids copied that and others just wrote somewhere on the page.  I found their thoughts fascinating.  They probably don't completely get the whole multiple intelligence thing, but maybe the grasped a piece:-)

I am music smart....I would like to be body smart, so I could do what the amazing people on So You Think You Can Dance do!  What smart are you?

Happy Tuesday,