CLIMATE ACTION PROJECT 2020 CAP 2020 We started our CAP (Climate Action Project) journey via FaceTime as a way to have engaging communication between grandparents living in Oklahoma and grandchildren starting preschool in Massachusetts during Covid-19 times. In our first-six weeks of participation, we worked virtually on the difference between weather and climate. My grandchildren's preschool teacher had a maple tree farm and we connected global warming and climate change to what was happening to the production of my grandchildren's favorite topping for pancakes, maple syrup. CAP also empowered us to communicate with a preschool teacher from California who shared her CAP plans for her classes and validated my (the grandmother) inexperienced early childhood educator efforts. We followed Ivette’s suggestions during CAP 2020 and 2021. Our first CAP climate action was simply watching a memorial Japanese maple tree planting at the children's backyard. We also st...
October Happiness Calendar https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/uploads/GGSC_Happiness_Calendar_October_2021.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1slPmA1Jd3g_4lgSTari0Xr4oHjhnoyHDdXF9UEeNuiZV3P2W_uJBVC2A October 1st My goals are 1. Teach my grandchildren Spanish through science and sensory-motor skills 2. Finish organizing my apartment Visualization and steps towards accomplishing those goals 1. Listen to their interest and create lessons on the spot connecting those interests to things you have planned 2. Work with my husband to empower him to clean up his area October 2nd I was enthusiastic when my sister shared the good news that her daughter had decided to marry her partner without any family around. I told her we will celebrate together. I was also enthusiastic about the news that my sister has decided to visit my other sister for her birthday this month. I was going to be joining them, but due to the outbreak in the pandemic where I live and the fact that my grandchildren ar...
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