When planning our school visits in Cartago, our host teachers arranged for me to teach a lesson in a 6th grade class. I decided on a global art lesson and hoped to incorporate Oklahoma culture. Earlier in the summer Ms. Marcie Levy and I made dreamcatchers with our global learning academy summer school class. The dreamcatchers turned out to be a hit! What a better way to share Oklahoma with the students in Cartago, so I thought. After a visit to a local artisan market in Bogotá, I discovered dreamcatchers had already made their way to Colombia. In fact, they were everywhere! Monica, the students' teacher, had already bought all the materials for her more than 40 students. Dreamcatchers would go on as planned.
Monica's class of 6th graders are part of the afternoon turn at Gabo. She had already anticipated the time and effort it would take for 40+ kids to work their way through each step of making a dreamcatcher. Monica precut the center of the paper plates and assigned each student to bring a bag of plastic beads. When I arrived to start the lesson, the temperature in the classroom was SO VERY HOT (no air conditioning in the schools). There were fans attached to the walls; however, they provided little relief from the humidity and heat. Looking at the faces of those excited kids soon made me forget about how hot I was. We had so much fun making our dreamcatchers that we actually stayed beyond the bell to finish and to take pictures. There may have been dreamcatchers all over Colombia, but not a single one as spectacular as those made by 6th graders at Gabo!
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