Hi,
I just wanted to share what my class has decided to do for remembrance day. During my practicum I taught a unit on "Sadako and a Thousand Paper Cranes" and two of the activities that I had the class do during the unit was; 1st to make origami paper cranes with the goal of completing one thousand (as a class), and 2nd to write peace poems. When I returned to visit my class last Friday, I found out that they had completed their goal of making one thousand cranes and that they had turned all of the cranes in to wreaths which they were going to use at the remembrance day ceremony at the school, and secondly some of the students were going to read their peace poems during the school assembly in the gym. I thought that this was an execlent idea as the story of Sadako is about peace, and the 2nd world war. It was nice to go back into the classroom and to realize that the students took a lot more away from the lessons, and the book than I thought.
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I am always suitably impressed by the connections and the extensions that students can make with what we give them. My own theory, for what it is worth, is that as we get older (some of us much older) we become more linear in our thinking and lose the ability to think in a totally free style manner. We become inhibited and lose our child like skills to take an idea and run with it and who cares where it takes us. And I think we all found during our practicum that students are very forgiving of our idiocy. I think that is why I like this program and the people in it so much--- because sometimes we are allowed to be a little silly and are forgiven for it.
You are absolutly right Rod. I sometimes feel nostalgic about my youth, even the simple things like make believe I remember being fun, and easy. As an adult like you said I feel silly sometimes doing these things...I often find my mind wandering and then I am forced back to reality, perhaps we need to move away from reality....
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