This week in the art room we had visitors from Tanzania! A group from Viewpoint Adventures in Tanzania came to talk about their counrty and what life and school is like there. The visitors talked about the land and the animals, but mostly wanted to tell our students to take advantage of every educational minute that we can. We can lose a phone, a car, or even your house, but no one can take your education away from you! Some kids there walk up to 6 miles to school, then back again. Lunch, if there is any to provide, is the same, beans and corn, every day. There are 60-100 students to 1 teacher in 1 classroom. The students and teacher are lucky if they have a chalkboard and chalk to use. The visitors took pictures of the technologies we have and were blown away by the school. It was very interesting to talk to these men and I am grateful and humbled by the advantage our kids have just by being here in America. I hope we all are aware of this and take advantage of the privledges we have and make the world a better place.
Lowell students come to art once a week (sometimes twice on wacky Wednesday!). My goal is to update this site once a week to keep my many readers updated with all the things happening in the art room. As you can plainly see, it has been about a month since I have done so. I will not give any excuses, as we all have busy lives and things to do. Believe me when I say, we are having fun in the art room, but not only having fun, we are learning as well, but not only learning :) we are becoming problem solvers too!! This year when someone "messes up", students sharing a table will work together to give ideas to solve the percieved "problem". We will work together as a small group community to help the student who has a problem. In doing this, our sense of community will grow stronger, our problem solving skills will become greater and students will accomplish their goals! Lowell is a great place to grow and good things are happening all around our school, but here in the art room, once a week, |
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