Today's ELA unit include a little geography lesson that required the kids to identify some states or countries on a map.
When someone correctly answered that the orange dot was on Cuba, somebody else asked, "Wasn't there some missile crisis there?" Before I knew it, we had spent twenty minutes discussing the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and why communism might have seemed attractive to oppressed people. At the end of the conversation, Daniel asked if that counted as our history lesson for the day. I said, "Sure."
Daniel was pretty thrilled by that answer. . .
. . . and Anna did a celebratory dance . . .
. . . then we finished our ELA unit and the kids went out to play.
Should we call that P.E., or recess? How about both?
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