We met today with the First Graders. A couple of weeks ago, we left them a note asking for their help with our meanness research. It turns out that our note spurred their own investigation, and they had created a book called, "The Opposite of Meanness." Each child took a turn reading his or her page, and the Turtles listened with rapt attention.
They had many ideas about kindness, nice words, problems solving, taking turns, and even "tolerance." They have a few more pages to do, and then they will deliver it to us next week. The Turtles are continuing to build their understanding of what we need to replace our meanness with, particularly around problem solving. They are catching on the idea of getting a teacher when there is a problem. Tamara and Fran have been talking about inviting some of the Pre-K children back to the Turtle room to (re)introduce the idea of the Peace Table, working on transferring the power of problem solving from teachers to Turtles.
Back at the EC, sand was the name of the game. Early in the morning, we discovered that all the letters from our alphabet puzzle were missing! Soon they discovered them in the bucket of sand!
Then later on the playground, Barry and Tom delivered sand to our sandbox. The Turtles quickly set about opening up the sand bags. It was a hard work, but these were just the inventive kids for the job!
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