Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Elementary School Teachers
In Duzine and Lenape it was sooo cool if you were in the advanced reading group. So, I thank my elementary school teachers for pressuring us at such a young age and teaching us the importance of reading so early. But besides reading about advanced subjects and aloud in groups what really made me love reading was DEAR time. Drop Everything And Read. What could get better than that?! Of course now there are 'more important' things to do in school but I'm going to try to bring it back all the same. DEAR time was just plain awesome. Stopping for 20-40 minutes to grab a good book, sit on a bean bag in a corner and just enjoy reading? School will never be so fun again. But besides DEAR time, Mrs. Weiss, my 1st grade teacher taught me to love reading through writing my own stories. I made my own picture books about the adventures of Cannon and Moo-Moo, (aka my rabbit and my favorite animal) and I still have the set to this day. I would go searching for new ideas and my favorite is probably the one about when they went to the moon, inspired by Wallace and Grommit of course. But I loved writing my own books and making up new stories and spent all of my DEAR time that year reading for more. So thanks Mrs. Weiss, and thanks school district. Lets bring DEAR time back.
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I agree. DEAR was very relaxing and could be very useful in high school as every moment is stressful.
ReplyDeleteWow I completely agree! DEAR would be so helpful in high school now that we appreciate reading even more now than back in the day. It was def a combination of nap time and reading for me but I'm really happy you reminded me of that. Now I can remember my third grade teacher that had us color an inch worm segment in awesome colors to hang together around the room for each book we had finished that year. Aw I miss it!
ReplyDeleteI think we call DEAR 'workshop time' in this class. I love that you were inspired by Wallace and Grommit!
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