Today, I and a few other students from the class took a trip to Columbine Elementary for the second week. The activities for this week were simply to finish up the community models we began the last time we met. However, as we concluded last time, we needed to incorporate more ideas of sustainability into the community models. This task, however, is very difficult when working with this group of kids. It may be their age, or it may be the fact that their regular teacher was absent today, but the children were rowdier than ever! It was hard enough to get them to stay on the topic of the models without fighting over materials with the other groups. So since we had to spend most of our time trying to control the children, it was hard to try to teach them about sustainability. We did, however, get the children thinking about trees, and how they can benefit the community. Overall, whether or not the few hours we have spent with the second graders proved to be successful, it seems that everyone had a really great time building the models. We are planning to meet with the children one more time next week to compare everyone’s models and talk about sustainable communities.
Joanna Kropelnicki
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