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| Jeanne joined us on Monday morning |
Good Afternoon, I hope you are all doing well and staying healthy. This week we started our visit and learning about New Jersey. Yesterday, my friend, Jeanne Delcolle joined our class (via Zoom) and taught us about her home state. The children learned about the agricultural south of New Jersey as well as the metro north. Jeanne also took them on a tour of the boardwalk in Ocean City. She even had the famous Johnson's Popcorn send the kids their own bin of caramel corn.
Jonah Ibson is a teacher at Harwood Union and I have taught both of his kids at the Waitsfield School. He recently started a class on Native American Literature, and kicked things off by learning about the oral tradition. His students selected, studied, reimagined, and transformed traditional stories from a range of Indigenous Nations into illustrated children's books. They will now be sharing their stories with our class over Zoom, and we can't wait to see their reactions. Readings will be recorded, shared, and posted so that everyone in class will have a chance to listen to all of the rich and vibrant, reimagined tales, from the Navajo, Iroquois, Abenaki, and more. The high school kids will be reading to two or three kids at a time, that is why we will record them for everyone else to view. If you see that your child is receiving a zoom invite, from a high school kid, in their email; you will know why. I think this will be a great project for both the high schoolers and my students.
Notes:
*Tomorrow's online meeting is at 8:45. Your child will need a piece of the white paper that I put in their blue folders. Please join the meeting by 8:45. Remember, once I start a screen share, it doesn't allow me to see people requesting access to get into the meeting.
*Please make sure your child does their Weekly News entry, a zearn lesson (or two) and 30 minutes of Lexia/Core 5.
That is all for now. I hope you have a great week.
Peace,
