Week Nine and Ten: Grimm's Fairytales and SPOKcon

I'm grouping weeks nine and ten together because of holidays and conferences these weeks ended up just being two days- Thursday 8th and 15th and Friday the 16th.  These were two exciting days! 

We started Grimm's fairytales with the older graders, reading the 6 Swans and the first Thursday and Rumplestiltskin on the second  After reading the story aloud to the class, we watched an animated version of the story.  After the video I asked students to tell me differences they saw between the written version of the story and the animated video.  The 6 Swans was not familiar to me before this class.  It was exciting to read it aloud to students and learn of it as they were hearing it for the first time as well.  Our goal was to also read Hansel and Gretel on the 16th but because of testing we were only able to read the story and watch the movie with one class.

During these days we also taught about the water cycle.  The class listened All the Water in the World by George Ella Lyon. 

After hearing the story read aloud volunteers helped demonstrate how water evaporates and forms clouds, when the clouds can no longer hold water it falls back to Earth as some form of precipitation.  This was demonstrated with cotton balls!  One volunteer was the cloud and the other acted as evaporation, picking the cotton balls up from the ground and placing them in the 'clouds' hands.  When the volunteer student could no longer hold more cotton balls they fell from her hands acting as precipitation!

  

 On Monday and Tuesday October 12th and 13th I had the privilege of attending a local conference on summer programming and outreach, called SPOKcon.  I heard speakers from all over Kentucky discuss programming and outreach they were able to offer their communities even when they had small to no budgets. 

I always find conferences extremely beneficial for networking and inspiration.  At this conference I learned some great program ideas for group art projects with the community.

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