Difficult Topics: Death And Beyond

“We don’t talk about that here” are limiting words. There’s a gift in difficult topics. I offer you the story of the dead fish. One morning we entered the classroom to find that the Betta fish that we’d had for about a month had died. The...
The World Is A Different Heaven

The World Is A Different Heaven

“Martin Luther King’s real birthday is in two days,” one child recalled. Then someone asked, “Did the man that shot him die, too?” I told her that the man who shot Dr. King went to jail. Before I could tell the children that James Earl...

Puddles Part II

Over the next several days the children continued to think about where the puddle goes when it evaporates. G articulated her theory in drawing. She explained: The puddles don’t go up in the air. They vibrate, and then they go back to the  cloud, and then it rains....