Family Heritage

To celebrate Family Heritage Day at Glenhope, the ASPIRE 5 scholars became historians this week.  Mrs. Fullhart designed this lesson with the intent of learning the stories behind the families in our classes.  Throughout the week, students and their parents gathered significant family documents, pictures, and artifacts that gave clues to their culture, origin, and history.  On Friday, students placed all of their items in a shoebox for others to explore.  Scholars worked in groups to make deductions and inferences about the family based on the contents of the box.  After an hour of exploration and taking notes based on some of the depth and complexity icons, the scholars chose one of their families to share their conclusions about.  The student that the box belonged two then verified the inferences and made corrections if necessary.

We believe this was a very enlightening experience for the students, teachers, and parents that participated.  We often talk about how we have become a global society, and the importance of celebrating diversity and all cultures.  The family stories that were shared were very diverse, and I think they had a tremendous impact on the students, as they learned about how their friends and classmates somehow came to share this common classroom in Colleyville, Texas.  

We would like to thank all of the parents who went to great lengths to help the students collect their items all week long.  We could not have done this unique project without your support.  We truly appreciate your help, and we hope that you had some fun reminiscing about your own family during this process.  We also want to thank all of the parents that came to Glenhope to participate.  We hope you enjoyed this activity as much as we did.  Best wishes to everyone during the Thanksgiving holidays!