We often talk about how at IJP we are teaching skills and also the disposition toward learning. We try to remember that skills are easier to come by, but the dispositions, the attitudes, emotional in nature, are much more difficult to mold.
I thought a lot about this after such a sweet moment in our class.
Yudi took out one of our activity trays, a game with dice. He began to play and was having trouble reading the numbers 1-4 on the die.
He called Eden over to read the number to him.
This went back and forth, Yudi persevering in getting his whole tree filled with apples to finish the game, and Eden responding to each call of "can you help me read this number?"
We will all know our numbers eventually. But how many of us have the will to persevere through a challenge, and how many of us come repeatedly to the call of a friend in need?
And the icing on the cake; when the other children saw how fun this game seemed, with Eden willing to keep coming back and Yudi engaging for so long, they too wanted a part.
By Morah Estee - KG
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