Today, we had a visit from a nurse from Sick Kids who explained about cancer and leukemia. She talked about how cancer cells can sometimes overwhelm other cells in the blood, that cancer isn't contagious, and went into some details about how our classmate's treatment. Students watched a short animated show from Charlie Brown about a girl named Janice who gets cancer and some of the challenges she faces, then had the opportunity to ask questions of the nurse.
A. had a question about how veins get to have blood in them, then J. immediately asked how babies were made (We deflected back to you guys), but F. let us know how mothers stop producing milk when their babies stop drinking it, in case we wanted to know and were too embarrassed to ask.Happily, then it was recess.
On an unrelated front, students seem to be really enjoying our class read-aloud of George's Marvellous Medicine. I had to read two chapters today, because one was too short. Then, I saw this in the bathroom when I went out for dinner and thought it might remind students of some of the ingredients George included in his potion.
Every day is an adventure.
Sincerely,
Ms. Goegan
