We had a busy week! Don't forget that Monday there is no school. Remember that next week, with snow on the ground, students must have snow pants, jackets, hats, gloves, etc to play on the field and structure. Also, if you'd like to donate some regular paper towels or cleaning wipes, we would greatly appreciate it!
Below are two of our favorite and new activities we participated in.
The first was Kahoot! It was so fun! I created a "quiz" for the kids made up of some general questions, some funny, and some curriculum review questions. The class was broken into teams and each team used an iPad to answer the questions. They did amazing and it was a learning curve for all of us but now that we've got it, I look forward to doing it again! Also, I'm so grateful to our PTO who has helped us get 5 iPads in the room (which we've started using for the Raz-Kids programs as well as some information writing research, and today's game) and the wall mounted projector!
As you know, Martin Luther King Jr day is on Monday. We took time today for an exercise that was very different from our usual routine. Today, students experienced moments where they were segregated by others, were excluded, expected to do things others were not, and more. For example, some could sit together for snack and others couldn't. It's a great exercise to help the students gain a little bit of a sense of what segregation and unfair rules was like. Just the tip of the iceberg of course!
We talked a lot today about how they felt and how the day went on, but we also have a lot of work to do with recognizing empathy, understanding how our actions impact others, and identifying others' feelings.
Here's some of our take aways from today...
- Today was a day of empathy by thinking about those who are not doing what you're doing.
- Our actions might affect someone's feelings.
- People cooperated in the book to make changes.
- I felt sad when I couldn't do something.
- We were happy when we could do something.
- I felt unhappy when the people that couldn't do somethings, like when they couldn't talk.
- We weren't treated equally.
- I felt sad when other people couldn't do the same things as other people.
- I felt kinda bad and kinda happy because I got to do something but at the same time I watched the other people not get to do it.
- I felt sad when I watched other people not do what I was doing.
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