Anyway

Schools have changed since I went to school — not sur­pris­ing, although maybe it’s just that I can­’t remem­ber much about my early child­hood. Our son came home with a note the oth­er day, telling us about some pro­gram he’s doing, and giv­ing us the inform­a­tion slip. This con­tained the sen­tence This year we will be doing a mini cre­at­ive think­ing unit around jelly­beans. We will incor­por­ate Bloom’s Tax­onomy and the Mul­tiple Intel­li­gences as much as possible.

Tim searched for those terms and came across num­bers of links that did­n’t make us any wiser as to what they’re actu­ally doing — espe­cially giv­en that our son is 6, and in Grade 1 (2nd year at school, and first full-time year). Ask­ing our son what they’re doing in the pro­gram does­n’t eli­cit any use­ful inform­a­tion; we’ll have to ask the teach­er. Still, he seems to enjoy it, and they get to eat the jelly­beans afterwards.