Mary Messer

Ready for students tomorrow. This is how we start things off in my room. A few years ago I got sick of how I approached the syllabus and basic opening stuff, so this happened. If you're looking for a new approach to those opening days, here's an activity (link at the end). 1/

We each wrote a poem based on George Lyon’s poem “Where I’m From” and then picked our favourite line to make a whole-class poem. This is where we are from!

Response for box 2: “learning about other cultures helps you understand part of a person but what if they have more than one culture? And people aren’t just their culture, there’s other parts to them too so it doesn’t mean you know all about them if you only learn their culture”