A Field Trip to a Strange New Place: Second Grade Vistis the Parking Garage

While reading this article, I was shocked to read that "By age 4, the average child in an upper-middle-class family has heard 35 million more words than a poor child." I never realized there was such a huge difference. Another quote I was surprised by was "about two-thirds of kindergartners from the wealthiest 20 percent of households are read to at home every day, about a third of children form the poorest 20 percent are." This just goes to show you that there is a gap in our student's education.

I thought this article was really good. It just goes to show you that children can learn outside of the classroom. Sometimes, to bridge the gap of them understanding something, they need to be able to see it or touch it. I think this is a great way to show different ways to teach.