Sunday, February 17, 2008
Special Someone Day
Last week we started talking about observing how the schools that we worked in celebrated Valentines Day. The k-5 elementary school that I observe decided to not call Thursday, February 14th, Valentines Day, but instead "Special Someone Day". The students were asked to plan a day of activities that they would want to share with their special someone they would invite to the classroom. That special someone could be a friend, parent, grandparent, whom ever they chose. One cool thing about Special Someone Day was that the kids connected all activities to show their special someone with what they were doing in class. For example, in science they were learning about how combining different substances create different things (like in cooking). So instead of everyone bringing food to the Special Someone Celebration, they made ice cream from scratch. I thought this whole idea was so cool because it stepped out of the normal valentines day, candy, valentines, who got what from whom aspect of this holiday. Special Someone Day focused on showing someone the students love or care about things that the students have been dedicating their time and efforts to.
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I think that Special Someone Day is a really creative idea and it allows the kids to do more with Valentine's Day than just candy. That's really interesting to me because at my field placement last Tuesday the kids in my kindergarten class couldn't stop talking about Valentine's Day and the different themed Valentine's Day cards to hand out to their friends. It's amazing to me that kids are still bringing in Valentine's to hand out--I remember being so very excited about what kind of Valentines I was going to get to pick out. I think it's memorable for kids to share valentines with each other, but the Special Someone Day is a cool idea that I think the kids would really enjoy!
Since not all students can participate in Valentine's Day (for example, for religious reasons), the Special Someone Day seems like a nice compromise between the traditional Valentine's Day celebration and wanting to include everyone in school-community celebrations. I love that the teachers have found a way to focus it on "sharing" learning!
I think this sounds like such an awesome idea! I love how the teachers used this day as celebrating someone special and not just a "lover". I also think its really cool how they incorporated learning and what they have been learning in class! I think when I get into teaching that I might bring up an idea like this!
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