tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524471174570445036.post2659195552363589217..comments2023-05-16T12:26:09.102+01:00Comments on The Historical House: Teaching Attic Mrs McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524471174570445036.post-66304841673913459742017-05-30T18:07:09.534+01:002017-05-30T18:07:09.534+01:00Here's a question to muse on during white nigh...Here's a question to muse on during white nights and wee hours - was it simply sibling rivalry? I think it would be fascinating to write about Andre and Simone together. Just an idea for fun, though, if a bit of distraction might help at a hard time. Prayers for you and BA.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16264405119124578643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524471174570445036.post-59123446205607333432017-05-07T15:07:58.440+01:002017-05-07T15:07:58.440+01:00This is terrific advice! Wish I had it years ago ...This is terrific advice! Wish I had it years ago when I began to teach French but I incorporated some of these techniques over the years. Also: one theory (teacher conferences constantly give theories....zzzz...some good some.....) was to be sure - in every lesson - to appeal to the visual, the auditory, and the kinetic because we all have one primary way of learning (ie seeing the words, hearing them, writing them down, underlining, etc.) I LOVE the baking of the letters of the alphabet! splendid (we cut up pix in old magazines and made posters). ALSO it's very important to repeat and repeat and repeat new materials - go around the room having each child speak, string new words together to make funny sentences, be sure to give a new word or two EVERY class. The great thing about kids is they come up with the most brilliant ideas (rap sentences when rap was big - they were funny - SONGS which get into their heads.etc.) You are doing a WONDERFUL job! Enjoy! they will always remember your classes. THANKS for your blog!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524471174570445036.post-23491413809985716362017-05-02T19:18:57.545+01:002017-05-02T19:18:57.545+01:00Those are indeed fun facts! I shall have to read u...Those are indeed fun facts! I shall have to read up on Sofia Cavalletti (and, come to think of it, Maria Montessori). Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524471174570445036.post-62698294022508801162017-05-02T19:17:47.695+01:002017-05-02T19:17:47.695+01:00Ahhhh, Simone! She was soooo brilliant and is stil...Ahhhh, Simone! She was soooo brilliant and is still so enfurrrriating! Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524471174570445036.post-91870378824332893022017-05-02T19:08:56.352+01:002017-05-02T19:08:56.352+01:00Thank you and Domestic Diva! It is so interesting ...Thank you and Domestic Diva! It is so interesting to read about teaching methods and ways of engaging the whole person in learning. I'll be using it with my tutees. The love of learning is, after all, an implicit form of the love of God....and Dorothy, I have been reading your blogs for long enough to know your caveats about Simone! Thanks for all you write.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16264405119124578643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524471174570445036.post-58212285616469237062017-05-02T17:34:14.185+01:002017-05-02T17:34:14.185+01:00I've been doing a good deal of reading lately ...I've been doing a good deal of reading lately about pedagogy, much of it along the lines of what you describe. As I'm sure you know, Aquinas said "Nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses," so the more senses you engage (taste and smell so often are not engaged in teaching) then the more likely it will stick in the intellect. Sofia Cavalletti, the good friend of Maria Montessori who developed the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, was known to say, "Remember the order: body, heart, mind." In other words, we take in information through the bodily senses, which moves our hearts to joy or its opposite, and encodes the message in the mind. Your cookies are a perfect example.<br /><br />Just wanted to share a few fun facts to say, Bravo! and I wish I was in your class.Domestic Divanoreply@blogger.com