Yesterday the sixth graders in my religious school class were given a challenge to create an object from a story in the Torah using some supplies in the Tel Aviv classroom. One group created a Noah’s ark and donated their final product to our classroom thinking the class would enjoy playing with it, and indeed they did! Molly and Rachel spent lots of time in the block area filling the ark up with animals. Then Eli, Dylan and Jacob joined them and added insects. Molly then decided that they should make sure the animals shouldn’t get wet from the ocean, and placed colored scarves covering all the animals. The ark grew to be a beautiful product of everyone’s ideas. The students thought it was so neat that the sixth graders had been in their classroom and made something for them to play with. I am excited to tell class 6D tomorrow that the Tel Aviv class enjoyed their ark!
A beautiful story that I will be sharing far and wide! You've taken room sharing to a new level! What a wonderful opportunity for both the 6th graders and the Tel Aviv kids to connect to others in the TBS community. I love that you introduced them to each other in this way and that the 8th graders so thoughtfully wanted to leave a gift for the younger children. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
ReplyDeleteThats really neat. I never thought about that benefit of sharing the classroom.
ReplyDeleteWhen thinking about sharing learning spaces across wide age ranges, it is easy to think first about the challenges. This is a FABULOUS example of the benefits. What a nice way to create links between our older and younger children. I look forward to more examples like this!
ReplyDeleteThat is terrific!
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