I sent an email (via school messenger) this afternoon to all of you with an outline of some of the next steps in our learning adventures. I will be calling families over the next few days to check in and answer any questions you might have from the email. Please know that you are missed dearly at school, but we are excited about what lies ahead for us and will be sharing more details with you through the coming week.
I trust that you have had a restful Spring Break! In our family, computers were put away and more time was spent baking, playing, riding our bikes, and splashing in puddles. What was a special moment for you?
Thinking back on our work with Ms. Wajda as budding Historians, I have been thinking about how we can continue some of this work at home until we are able to meet again in our classroom space. Ms. Swinton had a great idea posted to her blog: starting your own personal journal while learning at home. We are living in a unique situation at the moment, and it is the perfect opportunity to journal about what life is like. This could become a primary source of information if someone were to read it years down the road to find out what life was like for families living in Calgary in the spring of 2020.
Here are just a few questions to get your ideas flowing (from https://www.middleweb.com/42521/kids-journals-could-become-primary-sources/):
- your family's trip to the grocery store and what foods are available
- how weird it is to learn at home
- how you are keeping busy during the day
- how you feel about all of this (excited because you get to stay home from school? bored? nervous? sad you don't see you friends daily? happy about spending more time with your family? etc.)
- what sorts of things have changed lately
- what kinds of things are your families thinking/saying/doing
I hope that a few of you have started to write a "Best Part of My Family" piece of writing. Don't forget that you are still able to access google docs at home if you have access to a computer or a tablet. Take a peek back at the last blog post for an example and some inspiration if you're not sure where to start. If you haven't yet, try to take some time over the next few weeks to think about this. It is a great connection to some of the work that we have done this year in our classroom and a way to show how you are applying some of these writing tips into future work.
As the sun has been shining, we have loved looking for rainbows at this house! The most we have found at the same time was 3. Whenever you see light peeking through your windows at home, see if you can find examples of refraction. Try to think back on some of the neat things we learned and discovered in the classroom about light and shadows. What can you teach or show your parents and siblings about it using found materials at home?
Sending warm wishes your way!
No comments:
Post a Comment