Jan 31 2013
Pen Pals!
We have bee communicating with Miss Schmidt’s class at Guion Creek elementary for a few days now and they asked us an exciting question- Would we like to be pen pals? We immediately decided yes, we would love that and emailed them back to let them know. The other day, Miss Schmidt’s class asked us about all the things we like. Yesterday, we created a book called, Things We Like, and each friend wrote a page about what they like. At the end, we asked the question, “What do you like?” We hope they send us a book! We are looking forward to comparing and contrasting our interests with our new friends and continuing to explore diversity. Today, we learned about how we will mail our book, including adding postage, a return address, and a mailing address. When the weather gets better, we will hopefully take walks to the local mailbox to deliver our mail.
Yesterday, we read a story called, Mama Zooms. In the story, there is a mother who is in a wheelchair and she and her son go on pretend adventures in it. This opened up a conversation about people being different and we talked about some of the ways this mom may have been a little bit different from most moms. Then, we talked about how this mom was just like most moms. Some of the kids’ responses were so powerful.
How is this mother just like most mothers? Mrs. Argus
She can still sing a lullaby to her son. Maria
She has a heart. Cariah
She has feelings just like everyone else. Kalaya
She can think like everyone else too, with her brain! J’Den
She can cook dinner for her family still. Dylan
I have to admit, the first few responses brought tears to my eyes. I hope these lessons in diversity and tolerance will stick with the kids for their life. They understand so much already.
