Posted by Amy Anderson on Feb 07, 2018; 1:41am
URL: https://nabble.aealearningonline.org/Assignment-6-Using-VTS-in-Your-Classroom-Lisa-Anderson-tp10337p10577.html

Hi there!
It sounds like you encourage your students to discuss and provide them the time they need to work through their learning. It can be hard to let go of that teacher time, but I share the reverence for it that you do. Students hearing the language and ideas of their peers can sometimes go a lot further than we teachers can take them. Just think when we teachers all get together the discussions and learning we get from OUR peers! I sometimes think we could spend an entire SIP day talking about classroom strategies and never run out of things to say!

My teaching world in kinder is very different from your fifth graders. I bet your grade level studies a lot of topics that would lend itself well integrating art. I was recently in a fifth grade classroom when they performed a readers' theater of The Odyssey. Think about all of the abstract ideas in mythology that could be made concrete by integrating art! You are doing neat things in fifth!