Outside the Box – Ashley Bleeker
This week RSI is celebrating Thanksgiving with intentionality and joy! This holiday is one of the main holidays celebrated at RSI, as part of the English class curriculum. Every language class has two holidays that are celebrated to bring insight into the culture the language is apart of.
This is a fun learning experience for our students and one they look forward to each year. This year, in class activities included Thankfulness Tress, where students write down things they are thankful for. Our students also made crafts that express their creativity and thoughtfulness. It is also a great opportunity for our students in younger grades to practice their fine motor skills through cutting, gluing, and using their hands for detailed work.
Not only is this an incredibly fun holiday for our students, it is also educational. Students practice their English vocabulary by listing things they are thankful for throughout the alphabet. It is formative to their character development as they are lead to practice gratitude, an important life skill. We are so glad that our students enjoyed sharing the things they are thankful for with one another!
