Exit Slip: Orchard Garden( Part 2) Embodied ways of learning math

I am so blissful to have a chance to be more close to nature during this program. I feel like I was missing the beautiful insights of beauty around me in the fast-paced life. Today, our class was in the orchard garden amongst the lap of nature. We started our class by spending some alone time with ourselves and nature. In addition to this, we also drew the manmade and the natural things around us. While drawing various things, I realized very closely that drawing is not everyone's job. Although it is a very good way of expressing feelings and imagination. I was comfortable drawing the linear and 2-dimensional shapes, but it was hard for me to visualize 3-D shapes on paper. This whole process made my heart and mind to cease and feel the present moment. Learning the embodied ways of showing the path of the sun during the summer and winter solstice was very interesting and we enjoyed the nice body stretches through learning as well. I will also incorporate these strategies of embodied learning in my classrooms since it makes the class environment very engaging and active. In addition to this, we also predicted the present time and also time in future months with the help of sundial. I never did that before and seek to have more knowledge about that.