Family Day

Today we had TAS family day in our classrooms. What this is, is an opportunity for kids to go learn in another classroom with students of all different ages for an hour. I found this to be a really interesting experiment. It's interesting to have kindergarteners and sixth graders in the same room. Even more interesting to try to teach something that is meaningful to all of them. The kindergarteners were shy, and didn't really want to participate. The sixth graders (or at least one of them) were too cool for the activity. The kids in the middle ages were excited and ready to share. We talked about hispanic heritage today and the kids got to taste sweet tamales and tried to get to know each other a little. I think next time we meet, I'll have more small group sharing and less whole group sharing to make the littler kids feel more comfortable.

What is most interesting to me about this experiment is that I'm at a school that is willing to experiment and see how things go. Everything may not be a stellar success, but they will try new things.