All right, I know I just posted a blog, but I just have to comment about something. Do you know how COOL it is to see an entire multi-grade community doing geometry? Yes, yes, it is loud. Kids scattered all over the place. And the brain energy absolutely permeates the air - the kids working together, learning and learning and learning. Fast-foward to another community, where fifth and sixth graders are rotating through teachers who have planned a mini-unit on poetry, each teacher teaching one of four important strategies in poetry over two days. Kids are learning from both fifth and sixth grade teachers. Then, of course, there is our SEM-R classrooms in both fourth and fifth grade, where students are reading their choice of book at their instructional level - and learning to love reading again...or maybe for the first time! They're engaged in books. (sigh...how wonderful...)
We are a community of learners, and these two examples are evidence of the type of community we embrace here at Harriet Bishop G/T! In the words of Flounder from Animal House, "This is GREAT!"
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