A Time to Celebrate Women

March 28, 2021March 28, 2021 ~ wordancerblog ~ 8 Comments

It’s March and among other things it means that it is time to reflect on the accomplishments of women. For me, this

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8 responses to “A Time to Celebrate Women”

aggiekesler

March 28, 2021

This is such a lovely tradition and a way to celebrate women! I, too, work at a girls’ school. I might introduce this idea next year. It sounds wonderful and enriching. Thank you for sharing!

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Kristi Lonheim

March 28, 2021

This event, from the growing girls’ understanding of diversity all the way to high tea, sounds lovely. Do you know the book and podcast Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls? Sounds like a terrific complement to your celebration

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wordancerblog

March 28, 2021

I recommend it highly! It’s a great way to get in extra research skills and the girls feel special when it is completed. They also remember the information they found. I’ll be walking down the hallway and they will give me names of women they want me to include the next year.

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Loralee

March 28, 2021

Absolutely amazing! What a gift you are giving! What a celebration!

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Nanc

March 29, 2021

Oh…so want to be in your classroom, and miss those days when we did the “special”. Such a terrific learning moment and loved that they loved it even if it was virtual. Again, your resource list phenomenal. One of my favorite things was doing an enormous 60’s coffee house celebrating our poetry. Wish I was a bug on the wall in your phenomenal school. XO

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wordancerblog

March 29, 2021

Thanks, Nanc! Tea Parties are much better than standardized testing, which I’m also in charge of!

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Tea & Empathy – Word Dancer: Literature, the Arts, & Education

March 3, 2024

[…] Every spring for the last ten years, I’ve offered a Women’s History Challenge to 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at my school, which is the oldest girls school in New Jersey. The Women’s History Challenge was a research project that required students to read and write about ten different featured women plus one woman of the student’s choice. The girls had six weeks to complete the project independently, and then we celebrated by having a tea party and participating in a quiz show. I wrote about the 2021 Challenge here. […]

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Celebration: Women’s History Tea 2.0 – Word Dancer: Literature, the Arts, & Education

April 14, 2024

[…] I love March and April because they signal the beginning of spring. All around us are signs of rebirth: budding trees, unfurling blossoms, birds gathering in song on still bare branches. Every spring, I celebrated the accomplishments of women with our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. I gave them a packets of ten women in history to research and then they would select another woman of the choice. I describe our process here. […]

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