Hi parents,
We had a great day today! In the morning, we talked about hibernation, and the students made a "Bear Cave" craft. The students seemed to really enjoy it! Even though crafts may seem simple and maybe less 'academic', they are an awesome way for young students to practice reading and following simple instructions. We followed up our craft with a writing prompt, where students responded to the prompt: "The animal that lives in my cave is..." The class did a fantastic job with this creative, open-ended task.
In math, we've been working more on representing numbers. I'm trying to encourage the students to think of any number as a group of tens, and a group of ones. For example, think of '18' as 'ten and eight', or '236' as 'two hundreds, three tens, and six ones.' Number Blocks does an excellent job of illustrating this concept for numbers up to 20 especially.
This morning, we watched the short film "Hair Love", and had a thoughtful, meaningful discussion about it. We talked about how everyone has a unique appearance, and it's important to try your best to love and embrace the way you look, even when it's difficult. We also talked about how it's what's on the inside that really counts. The students even connected it back to what we'd learned about Terry Fox! I'm debating making 'film studies' a new subject area.
Hair Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNw8V_Fkw28
Thank you to everyone who has sent back their purple family forms!
Have a nice night,
Zac
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