Yesterday, Mike volunteered for the Great American Teach In. A few years ago we both did it and really enjoyed it. It's basically career day. You go and talk to a class for 30min and then you go to a different class and so on. It's always a huge deal to Isaac when one of us goes to his school for something. He's especially proud of his dad though.
Mike stayed up late drawing huge mazes in varying degrees of difficulty. The kids learned basic programming commands and then used them to navigate a chicken through the maze to sit on an egg. I thought it was a very clever lesson plan. He stayed the whole school day and spoke to 3-5th grade classes. One of the classes he spoke was Isaac's.
He said some classes understood faster than others, but overall it went very well. I am a big supporter of public education, but more than that we have to make sure the kids feel important right now. It really did just make Isaac's day. I'm so glad, too. He's getting older and soon enough he won't want his parents at school anymore. It's amazing how much growing happens between 7 and 9. I'm just overwhelmed at all the growing up around here.
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