Projects of Week 3

Week 3 Connecting with other teachers and schools
Week 3

Placed by Carmen Clay 2020/Oct/16
Homeschool
North America USA
State: 
OK

Description: 

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.  


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