MONDAY Fourth graders create a post-it wall expressing ideas and concerns about our country, our earth, our lives together. TUESDAY As journalists, fourth graders visit the post-it wall installation in the Union Square subway station. They take notes and interview people walking by about their views on the presidential election and the future. WEDNESDAY Fourth graders visit the seventh grade’s Colonial Museum. Here, a lesson on the Battle of Brooklyn… THURSDAY A good way to process all of these experiences is to run around outside with a hula hoop. FRIDAY For morning work, students found notes of appreciation written by their classmates (hanging from the ceiling). Then it was buddy time at the high school. First a game of tag… Then a mannequin challenge… After the all school assembly, it was time for a little party in our classroom. First a game of pin-the-nose-on-the-snowman… Then TREATS! So long 2016. Hello 2017!!]]>
I like how we actually spent time in looking forward to 2017. If I was teacher in 1999 I would only do this for 1999 New Year’s eve.