Ever Feel Hung Out To Dry?
I walked out of my office one day recently and ran face to face into this poor soul who seemed to be suffering from the throws of winter. Yes, the days of January can seem long, especially when our favorite football team is done for the season and suddenly the Superbowl parties don’t seem so great anymore. Fortunately, there’s still a lot going on at Emanuel this month, and much of it can make you smile.
Remember when Miss Schmidt and Miss Ladwig shared the video of themselves on their educational learning experience in Wiiliamsburg last summer? Well, the 4th and 5th graders expanded their learning of the colonies lately in, of all places, gym class. After very little practice, they were able to perform one of the colonial dances associated with that period of history. The video shows how genteel these youngsters can be!
Kids in both Miss Schmidt’s Miss Ladwig’s rooms became budding philatelists in January. I’ll save you the trouble of looking that word up, and tell you they had fun with a stamp project from an organization of the American Philatelist Society called Stamps Teach. They state their purpose as providing educators with lesson plans, activities, and worksheets that use postage stamps as hands-on learning tools.
Some sample activities we’ve done within core subjects:
English – We looked for people, places, and things.
Geography – We located many of the foreign countries for which we had stamps.
Math – We made addition, subtraction, and multiplication problems.
Science – We looked for living and nonliving things. and objects that would use simple machines (levers, pulleys, etc)
The excitement was obvious as they shared their unique finds with one another.
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Enjoy the last week of January!
