Last week I met your student and used some creative and artistic methods to get to know their interests and passions. I used their visual images (and Mr. Varela's Legos) to introduce them to concept of culture and how their activities, passions, and interests when joined together with other students expresses the culture they are building as a classroom of students learning together in this place at this time. They then had to collaborate combining their interests with a partner's interest out of Legos to communicate their ideas. 

 

This week, we'll reflect on the pictures I took of their creations and then I'll introduce them to the Geography of the United States. My goal is that by the end of the quarter they will at least know all 50 states and key physical features of our country though I will give them the opportunity to go beyond. They may have already shared with you that I asked them to draw the United States without a reference. That was fun. They will find those drawings even funnier after they learn more about the geography of the country.