Update

I feel like we have been doing so much, I have tons of things to update you all on! 

We did lots of structure experimentation. The most important part I want to share with you all is not the final products (which were fantastic) but rather one of those 'teachable moments' that all teachers dream about. There was a lot of frustration with one of the structures, so after we spoke at length about how the point of the activity is not the end product but instead the learning that happens while we are doing the activity. The word of the day was 'perseverance' and what it meant. The next day, the change in attitude when they met a challenge was amazing!! 

One other thing we did around structures was some reading comprehension. One of the last questions led to an awesome class debate! This is something you could talk about at home, to reinforce concepts taught in class. We learned a structure has to 1) carry weight 2) have a defined form and 3) have a purpose. 

The debates we had in class was over a fence and then a piece of grass. Feel free to debate about anything else you might think of!!

Finally, you hopefully saw a poster come home today. It is a long story about how we did it, but the end product is a poster for each child that was made by someone else, that has a sentence from every other student in the class about what they like or appreciate about the person! This is one of my favourote projexts of the whole year, as I think this is one of the most important life practices - recognizing the good and wonderful things in each and every person!