VEGANGELICA

Our alternative program (within the public school system) had 60 students grades 1 - 6 in two merged classrooms (not divided) and had no formal activities in which we all participated. Rather, small groups of kids worked with the teacher or had different tasks we could do around the room.

I remember in 1st grade joining the 4th graders to learn about the base system for numbers...you know, the number eleven in base ten is expressed as 11 and in base 5 is...hmmm....21! Phew! I still remember.

We had worksheets to do when we were interested. I remember in 3rd grade doing a fractions worksheet involving coloring parts of balloons...and sniffing the organic compounds left on the photocopy.

We also brought in snakes from outside to learn about them and we built forts all over the classroom. No desks. Dispersed around the room were lots of interesting activities to play with to learn. It was like being at a science museum or interactive art museum all day!! I loved it and was always excited to go to school. Then later I hit the regular school system: desks all day, homework, tasks, assignments. Ugh.

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mr dave

nice, definitely sounds like an interesting learning environment to have been part of. gotta ask though, how many hippies were involved hahaha

as for the whole base number systems i only learned that the first time i went to college as part of computer programming fundamentals, only base 2,8, and 16, but once you understand how one works you can apply it to any base number. can't imagine wrapping my head around that in grade 4 - doubt i'd be here if that were the case haha

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VEGANGELICA

Lots!

(And yes, that was my shortest post ever. JUST for you!)

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