This blog has been abandoned. Well not completely, obviously. I am writing here, right now.
But I abandoned it for a long time, because I was out of the classroom for a long time. Now that children are teaching me how to teach them again, I find myself back on the trolley of figuring out how to do right by them.
Mostly what I had forgotten was their endless, boundless, insistent need to MAKE. I will be introducing them to composting in our classroom, and I've been trying to think of a way to introduce the idea of using worms to transform food and paper into dirt to kids in lower Manhattan. Searching the resource room, I discovered a single jar of dirt--and I thought of presenting the jar to the kids as part of a series of things, things which, when put together, make something else.
Blue and red paint.
Baking soda and vinegar.
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Food and paper scraps.
And each needs a tool--a brush for the paint, a dropper for the vinegar, worms for the scraps.
Purple. Volcanoes. Soil.
Let's make some earth, shall we?
