Monday, October 8, 2007

Steady progress





My third graders are progressing steadily. Our biggest challenge this year is to love the people around us even if we don’t like them sometimes. It is something I have to constantly work on myself as an adult. I’m also trying to teach them to crave learning so they can use what they know to change their world. I gave them a very dramatic example of the people in our town that beg for money, many because they didn’t get the education they need to work. I think it has helped some of them take more responsibility for their learning.

We have 5 nationalities in our classroom this year. Most of my students are Dominican, one is from Canada , one from Puerto Rico, one from Germany , and I’m from the U.S. One day, we all took turns singing our national anthems. It was a spontaneous thing that ended up being a really good team-building activity.

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