Enter Room With a View, a fabulous worldwide project started by Jennifer Wagner. Our second grade classes do an Air and Weather unit, and so this project fits seamlessly. Classes from around the world take a picture each month of the view outside their classroom window. With this picture, we do a shared writing lesson describing the picture, what we see, what is happening with the weather, and any other observations.
One of our wonderful second grade teachers, Susan Souza, agreed to team teach the project with me this year, and it's my baby step into collaborating at a new school. Since we live in the tropics, we thought at first that our picture wouldn't change much, but we were wrong. All sorts of great noticing is going on, like what happens to the leaves on the trees in the heart of the rainy season. We are now connected with two other classes and planting the seeds of global conversations: one class in California and another in Wisconsin.
Check out our Bangkok View wiki. We'll update it each month of the school year.
2 comments:
What a fabu-licious photo of the rainy season here in Bangkok. It's a perfect capture of exactly what the weather has been like. I will keep watching the documentation of a Room with A View. Thanks for sharing.
I'm in the same boat as you as far as trying to collaborate with classroom teachers. Last year, one of my teachers did participate in one of Jen's projects and they found it to be very rewarding. I'm not sure if it's too late or not, but maybe I can get someone on board with this project as well.
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