Week of 9/27-10/1

Monday

Katie introduced us to her dad, Dr. Kelly, who is a developmental pediatrician. From him we continued to learn about barriers to education. He talked a lot about how our brain receives, processes, stores, and sends out information. We also learned about ADHD and Autism and the various types and degree of severity of those. Mrs. Turner was very excited to learn new things!

Tuesday

We started our day by reading My Brother Sammy. It was a really cute book about the range of emotions that the siblings of children who have special conditions can go through. Next, Mrs. Turner explained that we would be creating our own barrier books in pairs to read to the children at Mauldin Elementary. She showed us some examples of past books and the mini projects that went along with them. We read some of them and started picking out the topic for our own books.

Wednesday

Mrs. Turner was gone at a CERRA, Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement, meeting. While she was away we had a work day. Many of us started planning out the stories for our books, and some of us took the opportunity to get our pot messages done.

Thursday

Mrs. Turner was back from her meeting and told us about some of the things that she had done and heard there. It was interesting to hear the creative ideas teachers from other schools have come up with, so that we can maybe implement similar things into our own school. After catching up, we went back to working on our barrier books. People are writing their books about everything from sleep deprivation, to divorce, to language barriers.

Friday

The last day of the week was another work day for our books. Some pairs are already starting to do illustrations and covers, so it was great to see what people are coming up with. Mrs. Turner checked over any completed stories to provide suggestions as we prepare to present them to each other and the elementary school students. Mrs. Quin, from MES, came to tell us about the children in her class who will become our pen pals. Everyone is excited to have a little buddy at MES!

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity." - Aristotle