Oh The Places We'll Go!

This is the helicopter cockpit control panel made from our boxes that we bring in our food from My Brother's Table and Traditional Bread as part of our own version of Family Dinner Project. Children who attend The REAL Program at the Boys and Girls Club in Lynn also bring home dinner for their entire families to allow more conversation and sharing about their day at school and at The REAL Program. Stay tuned for much more about the #REAL movie but thanks to the creativity of Jay Keshavan we have a a very #REAL -looking control panel.

Language and stories developed when children are given the opportunity to create things on their own  are so powerful. The above photo is part of our helicopter cockpit that children worked on with the guidance of a college student, a teacher mentor and each other. The concept of our movie "Helicopter to Hawaii" started with a discussion about movies. It was a revelation to the children that a movie is a story just like a book and that someone started to write that story. We took that seed of an idea and we asked about the main character(s) and the setting for our own movie. The engagement was the highest we have ever seen by about 8 children. Our settings were to take place in Transylvania, South Dakota, New York, under the sea, Afghanistan and Hawaii. It was the beginning of an adventure. (to be continued).