One of the things I have always loved about the field of Education is the cooperative spirit between teachers. When I was a grad student, two of my best friends were in law school and medical school. They often told me tales of their competitive classmates purposefully giving wrong answers to questions or wrong times of exams just so that they could succeed and be at the top of the class. Education is the opposite, most great ideas and lessons are not successfully delivered without the help or input of fellow educators. This is true of my latest post.
Every Tuesday afternoon the K2 group (Michelle, Terry, Jaala, Sarah and myself) meet to talk about curriculum among other things. Michelle and Terry shared the recent fascination with snails and Jaala and I brainstormed about how we could incorporate snails into our spaces. Jaala thought the kids would enjoy building snails out of the HWT wooden pieces and Sarah mused: “wouldn’t it be fun to write letters in slime?” like a snail trail.
Wednesday morning I gathered all of the materials and put these ideas in motion. We started with hand sanitizer or soap in our dishes, tracing the letter S as a snail would, slowly, leaving a trail behind. After that we made snails out of the wooden pieces and adorned them with buttons and jewels.
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Thank you to my peers for keeping cooperative learning alive. Vive L’education!
SO DARN CUTE!!! I want to do this in the studio now! YEAH!
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