MRP Reflection

I think that I learned a lot from the MRP. I would definitely do these with my students in my classrooms. It was very helpful to see all of these from the same research topic because it helps you to get the whole story about the topic that you researched. Children would love to do this because it could be about something that interested them. They could then look at all the aspects that are involved in their topic and make a very detailed project that they can show to other people. It can also help other people see their research better than just a paper because that can get boring, but the way we presented the MRP would interesting people and make them want to see your reasearch and learn about your topic.

SeedFolk.

I think that Seedfolk was a very interesting book. It was very cool to see how all of these characters from different backgrounds were tied together through this simple garden. It brought a whole community together, and this community was so diverse and so different from each other that it was amazing that something so simple could bring them together. And also once it brought them together it seemed that many of them were sort of embarrassed that they were not friends before this. There are many things with diversity, culture, and community that my students could learn from this book. Even though it is sort of a complex read it is all a very short and easy read. I feel like the fact that it is an easy read helps with the underlying complexitiy of the story and that my students could learn from this book very easily. I am totally putting it in my list of books to introduce to children in my future classroom.

donut shop Literacy

This was amazing! I was really impressed by the things that we come up with today in class that had to do with this donut shop literacy. we took only a short amount of time to come up with something and they were so great! I cant imagine if you gave kids a longer amount of time to work on them, what they could come up with! It would be extraordinary! We did an advertisement and it was so much fun and it was very valuable to try to think about what an advertiser is doing when they put an ad together. I will probably never take an ad at face value again. I will probably always study it and wonder what they are trying to get me to buy and what marketing they used to go about trying to get me to buy it!