Friday, November 26, 2021

Friday, November 12, 2021

St. Martin's Day



This week we celebrated St. Martin's Day! In music class, we sang songs we had secretly prepared for our classroom teacher. Surprise!



 

Thursday, November 4, 2021

Discussion About George by Alex Gino

 Hello everyone!

In Grades 5 and 6, we are several weeks into our unit on Who We Are with the following Central Idea: 

Our sexuality and experiences during puberty help us understand ourselves and others. 

We started to explore the idea of gender identity and have been reading a book called George written by Alex Gino - a story about a girl who was born in a boy's body. In other words, the protagonist is transgender as her gender identity does not match her biological sex. 




To prepare for this book club meeting, we each came up with open-ended questions which we then narrowed down by voting on which questions would lead to deeper learning. 

Here are the questions we chose:

  • Why did George keep the fact that she is a girl a secret?
  • If George tells people that she wants to be a girl, then what might happen?
  • How might the other characters react when they find out George is a girl?
We used some of the following sentence starters as tools to help us be effective communicators. 




We had a discussion that lasted over twenty minutes with minimal support from our teacher. 

Click below to take a look!