Many of the Hamilton Br. 3 teachers have been able to attend workshops this semester. These workshops are funded by the federal government and run by a special staff at the Inservice Center in the Euclid Branch School on Ridge. A fine staff plans and presents many workshops each year on subjects ranging from “Alternatives to Punishment” and “Behavior Modification” to teaching primary reading and “Creative Mathematics.”
Mrs. Elizabeth Magraw took part in an environmental workshop which focused on “The Green Machine,” the tree. The teachers who attended took back to their classrooms a great deal of information about what trees do for all of us every day, prompting the question “Have you thanked a tree today?”
Mrs. Laura Schmink participated in a workshop titled “Reading is Language.” This interesting experience led her to teaching the third graders a poetry form called Cinquain, as well as to some unique lessons on tongue twisters and experience stories in her kindergarten classes. Here are some samples of cinquain poems by children from room 204.
Snowing
Falling, floating
Houses, playgrounds, backyards
Sliding, playing, throwing, skating
Snowing
Martin
Dreaming, learning
Country, city, church
Preaching, teaching, praying, singing
Brother
Originally published in The Paper, February 1978.
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Original source: SD_Times1978_02.pdf, printed page(s) 4; PDF page(s) 4.
