11/18-11/22

Being placed at North Elementary has opened my eyes to how diversity affects the classroom. Because some of my students are not originally from the US, many of them do not celebrate Thanksgiving. I found it a little bit difficult to help these students connect to this important US holiday. My mentor teacher showed me the lessons she had planned for after Thanksgiving, which is a unit based around multiple winter holidays. The students would learn about Christmas, Chanukah, Three Kings Day, The Korean New Year, and Kwanza. I also noticed just from walking about in the hallways that many of the other teachers do something similar. North is truly a unique school and I am so lucky to have has the experience to teach there.