If you are new the the Orchard School community you may have recently learned about our school wide project "Beginning with Books: Affirming Identities and Raising Voices". It's actually in it's third year! Formerly known as "Reading to Raise Anti-Racists", our monthly read aloud program uses books as a springboard for learning about different racial, cultural, and gender identities. The two books that were selected for February both connected to Black History Month. With the help of our fifth grade buddies, we were able to learn about both Carter Woodson- the founder of Black History Month and Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice.
Right within our classroom community, there is SO much we can learn from one another. It was SO much fun to experience our first Candle Day of the year and learn about family travel!
Creating our own classroom traditions and special events contributes to classroom community as well. Take a look at our lovely lunch on Fancy Day.
Finishing out this post and taking it right back around from learning about the world, to learning from one another, to learning from our country's shared history, you can see our class taking in the third grade's work over Zoom. On the Friday before break our All School Meeting happened in individual classrooms but nevertheless had our whole school learning about the inspiring and significant contributions of several influential Black Americans. It's very powerful to have older students leading our learning!
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