Our Special Guest Teacher

 

Our Project Based Learning Entry Event

 

Today we had four very special Guest Teachers from the Japanese School of Detroit, Ringo Kai. They each went into a second grade classroom to teach a lesson. Our teacher taught our class while speaking only Japanese. Students learned how it felt to try to learn at school, not knowing the language, as many of our students do.  Afterward, many children expressed nervousness, frustration and confusion while they were trying to focus on the lesson. These emotions represented the feelings of our new students that are learning English everyday!  The children were very excited to learn Japanese writing, a song, and numbers, but the biggest lesson was learning compassion, patience and  cultural understanding. We are very grateful for the time our Japanese Teacher friends gave to us today to learn about their language and culture. Thank you also to our Japanese classmates who helped us through some very difficult lessons! Stay tuned for more about our PBL unit!

 

 

 

Our very kind and patient teacher!