Grandparents Day

Friday was grandparents day at the Hilltown Charter School. We were joined there by Doris and Ray Feinland. It's an annual event. It begins with a welcome from the administrative team to all the grandparents, accompanied by a very nice buffet breakfast, followed by visits to the classroom of your grandchild, in our case, Tamar, where there were planned activities designed to give you a sense of what she has been learning. Tamar read us a story she had written in which she "became" a paper bag at the grocery store. She had imaginatively entered into what it would be like to be a bag and get thrown about, or have things thrown on top of you. We also did an exercise in which we compared our childhood schools with Tamar's school, using a "bubble" format they have learned to use to "compare and contrast." (See photo). We also learned about her study of China and the many dynasties in its long history.

One of the principals at Hilltown addresses the grandparents. 

Tamar with a classmate, Aoifa. 

        Tamar with Ray and Doris.....

         .... and with us

    A time line of the history of China

        The bubble exercise

It was very interesting to compare our schools and see both what was very different (e.g., we had ink wells and chalk in our day), and what is still the same (e.g., there are still pull-down maps on the wall).