My students are a fun, caring, brilliant, crazy, and creative bunch of kids. When they get an opportunity to pour themselves into a topic, we adults get a treat! Here are a couple examples from the kids (ages 7-10) I taught this semester.
Our history focus was the Middle Ages, and the kids dove into preparing medieval food and costumes. Parents and siblings joined in the fun, too! My students also wrote a play set during the time period, and they had a blast performing it with stick puppets.
(The play described the misadventures of a peasant who broke the law by dressing above his station--it was a riot!)
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| (As you can see, each student also designed a coat of arms.) |
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| Here we are, looking like we just stepped out of a time machine! (Right?!) |
Meanwhile, the students were learning all sorts of things about plants with my co-teacher, Sarah. For our end of semester program they decided to showcase their science class with a skit... and oh my goodness, we in the audience absolutely loved it. Fortunately, cameras were rolling, so you can see it, too!
(In the first half, the kids explain how plants grow from seeds--fairly straightforward, but it's fun to hear them pull out the scientific vocabulary. Then in the second half they demonstrate how different variables can affect plant growth: what a gem!)
