I am still having a solo journey this week. I have emailed some Pre-K-K teachers, Yvette Sampior, USA, a Primary Teacher, Margarita Dakoronia, from Greece, and a Primary Teacher from India, Dhanam Sivalingam, to see how they are connecting the Challenge Curriculum to their students' age level. I eagerly await their response as I have not seen any postings of their work yet.
Meanwhile, this PP shows how I am adapting the curriculum, but they are just ideas that will be enhanced or will send me on a different path as I see what experience Primary School teachers are doing with their students.
I felt validated on my efforts when I received the following email from Ivette Sampior, California, USA.
"How are you? I have felt a bit overwhelmed with Distance Learning. I teach Kindergarten and I also have a Kindergartener at home. I have one son. Bless moms and dads who have more than one child at home! I have simplified how I integrated The Climate Project on-line as part of my curriculum.
One lesson, I defined the weather. I had my students draw how the weather looked in the morning where they live. Then I had the students draw, once more, how the weather looked before the sunset. Weather can, in some places, change quickly. Climate does not change quickly.
Lesson 2 was defining Climate Change. I found a short video https://youtu.be/ko6GNA58YOA to play for my students. Then I asked them to illustrate how they can save energy at home.
Lesson 3 Next week I will ask them to become inventors and create ways we can conserve, save energy. I am not at all tech savvy, but I have to admit I have enjoyed learning and teaching through this platform!
I hope my ideas have helped you in some way. Let me know if you want me to send pictures of my lessons to you! ~ Yvette M. Sampior"
I immediately added her drawing ideas to my grandchildren PP for week 1, where I am still having fun following the curriculum whenever my family gives me the opportunity to be a Climate Change ABC's sitter grandmother. As I was writing the email to Ivette, the idea of a picture book came back to the surface of my future planning. I found myself telling her that the creator in me uses images and words as creative tools. I may have discovered the creator in me. It is funny to write that as I never consider writing a book an invention, but... we will see. As a first step, I started a PP with words my grandchildren have used so far. Illustrations will also come from the children.
My country of birth is Peru and I am teaching my grandchildren a little bit of Spanish and some words in Quechua, a native Inca language. As both of my grandchildren like to cook, they have been exposed to the idea of Pachamanca (earth cooking) and now I decided to teach them how to take care of our Pachamama (earth). As I google this last word, I discovered that there are a film and an Australian Daycare Center with the Pachamama ideology. I also got connected to a globe picture book, which I immediately sent a personal copy to my grandchildren. I love to see the possibilities of a globe that focuses not only on the earth's geography but on all living things in it.