Thank You BBIS
Thank you to the students and staff at the Berlin Brandenburg International School for a wonderful day on December 1st. The 2nd-5th graders and I talked and asked questions about: walls, welcoming ceremonies,heroes, the editing process, anniversaries, teasing, architects, memorials, research, new ideas and inspirations. The school asked me to sign their piece of the Berlin Wall.
Bye Bye Ebola in Sierra Leone.. a rap and dance to celebrate
The Great Green WALL Initiative in the Sahara!
Berlin Wall has been down for 26 years..how many walls have been built since then?
Discover Your World and Talk About It at Family Literacy night in Winthrop!
Thanks to all the Winthrop families who participated in the Discover Your World scavenger hunt with the original illustrations from Talking Walls. The families looked for, talked about and answered questions about 30 items in the illustrations .
We leave a penny on my grandfather’s tombstone!
Thanks to all the teachers who attended my workshop at the Maine Social Studies Conference. We talked a lot about memorials and why people continue to leave items at the WALL in DC. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-things-they-left-selections-from-30-years-of-objects-at-the-vietnam-wall/2015/03/02/33226ba8-b910-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html
One teacher told us that when she visits her grandfather’s tombstone she leaves a penny . Here is a story about that tradition http://www.snopes.com/military/coins.asp
DISCOVER YOUR WORLD 