Spot On with Social Emotional Learning and Scribble Stones
Help me give my students Scribble Stones and A Little Spot books, along with supplies to create Scribble Stones and "spot" stickers to help support their social emotional learning.
I work in an amazing art integrated public school in Kentucky. Our students audition and are accepted into our school for creative and performing arts. This makes for a very unique and wonderful teaching and learning environment. Though all our students have the commonality of being identified as talented in their focus arts areas, we have a diverse population of students with a wide range of academic interests and abilities that come from all over our city.
My students are highly motivated and hardworking children-Because of their diverse educational backgrounds, they have all had different scientific and math experiences, but providing engaging and motivating hands-on experiences and online tools in the lab allows all my students the ability to teach and learn from one another and achieve success.
Students get an insider's view of how engineers apply mathematical skills and scientific knowledge to solve problems. In my classroom, we think and wonder, wonder, and think, each and every day. It is my intention to create 21st-century thinkers and problem solvers.
My Project
Remote learning is not only a challenge academically, but also emotionally for our students. I want to use the Little Spot and Scribble Stones books by Diane Alber as a way for my students and I to connect for social emotional learning.
My plan is to have all the students create a scribble stone to drop at our school to create a community collage, remotely-- this will help us all remember that even when we are physically apart, we are still together.
I hope that will help us not feel so lonely as we enter the winter months. The Little Spot series is about dealing with BIG emotions. I want to give the student colored dots to help them remember strategies to acknowledge and handle the big emotions of remote learning.
We will be doing this social emotional learning project, while we are studying rock transformations. I think that combining the understand that rocks are always changing and the social emotional learning will be a powerful connection for the students.
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