Learning Outside of Our Classroom

Last week was a great week for us to do lots of learning outside of our classroom. Since we are a "Downtown Community School", we love to go out and do things around town. We can learn anywhere, not just in our classroom or school!

On Thursday we were invited to see the VPAC children at SHS put on a few plays for us. They did lots of funny skits including Sleeping Beauty and a parody to go with it called Beeping Sleuty! This was a great opportunity for our children to explore a place and an opportunity in our community. Many of the children remembered visiting SHS last year to see Peter and the Wolf. Others told me about friends or siblings who attend SHS. This is a great way for them to learn to recognize important landmarks in our community. We love getting to go see VPAC performances! We had several former ARS children up on stage this time and I imagine some of our own children will be performing there in the future!

On Friday we got to go to the Iredell County Library to hear storytelling legend, Gran'Daddy Junebug. He told lots of fun stories. The children loved the one about the ghost in the attic! He also had the children come up and participate in several stories. He had many instruments to play and the children had a great time with him. We are so fortunate to have the public library right in our own backyard!!

We also did a little learning inside our classroom. Don't worry, it was still fun!

This week at munchie math we worked on ordinal position. We have been practicing this in our math lessons and this was a fun way to do a little review and for me to assess the children in a different way. The children had baggies that contained several animal crackers, pretzels, and pieces of popcorn. I told which position they needed to put each treat in and then we checked our answers!