Ideas for thinking about school with Wonder Ponder: pandemic edition

It’s that time of year again in Spain (back to school this week) and many other countries, and what a year it is! Whether or not in the midst of a pandemic, it is always interesting to think about school, learning, what it means to be a good teacher and what it means to be a good student, about friends and other school life creatures, about the school of our dreams and the school of our nightmares….

We are pleased to share our by now traditional downloadable free booklet brimming with ideas for thinking, talking, writing and drawing about school. This time, we’ve added a few pandemic morsels to the booklet to reflext the times we are living in, without drowning out the main issues that are always worth thinking about, with or without a pandemic.

Time to download and enjoy!

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More than ever before, it's time to think about schooling and learning! Free downloadable booklet

Even since well before the pandemic, at Wonder Ponder we love thinking about all sorts of things. School and learning is one of our favourite things to think about and we often do so with children. We always have lots of fun and come up with excellent ideas for improving things about our own schools and our own learning. But we couldn’t have you all missing out on the fun!

So we decided to publish a  free, downloadable, printable and shareable booklet chock a block with ideas for thinking about school!

Ten pages, (ten!) full of questions and ideas for thinking about school aimed mainly at primary school age children, and teachers too!

An invitation to think about learning, about what makes a good teacher and a good student, about the perfect playground, the perfect classroom, the school of our dreams and the school of our nightmares. An “Interview your teacher” activity, ideas for writing a story or an essay or drawing something inspired by your thinking, and several real dilemmas we might encounter at school.

We also include a page for readers to add their own questions and drawings.

But you can add as many pages as you like. Yes! This is a booklet with room for growth!

How about a page with questions related to the issues brought about by the pandemic?

Click on the image above or here to download. 

This booklet is also available in Spanish.