Last Sunday, I did a student meet-up for Montessori Model United Nations (MMUN). A student meet-up is where students participating as delegates in an MMUN conference, can meet each other and meet some members of the bureau. The bureau facilitated the student meet-up and lead their own breakout rooms, which is what I did. I did two sessions, one for middle school and one for high school. During the meet up we presented these two different games, one about sustainable development goals, and another about different topics of interest like sports, books, and movies. We used the sustainable development goals game for upper elementary students and the topics of interest game for middle schoolers. Initially, it was hard to get the students engaged, but after a few minutes, most of the students were really engaged with the games. Student meet-ups are really important for MMUN because it makes the students more comfortable with talking about different topics with new people. I personally really enjoyed talking about the sustainable development goals, because it was really cool to hear all the student's solutions for reaching the different goals. I think doing things like this are so important because teaching children to have a voice and be involved in the issues we are facing today, is really important for moving towards a better future.
Yesterday, my high school had our Lunar New Year celebration. For the past three years, I have been organizing the celebrations. This year, the teacher who supervises my planning wanted to have our celebration with the middle school, so we can get more students involved. I thought this was a great idea, but I was at first worried about how we would accommodate a lot more people in our activities, as we would be going from about 110 people to 180. This meant that I had to purchase a lot more materials for each activity so that all students and faculty could get participate. We also wanted to make sure we all were staying together and really integrating middle school and high school. For Lunar New Year, we always provide lunch, so I thought it would be good to serve food in the middle school, then require that everyone eats in the high school or on the quad. This way, we were all staying together instead of separating into our building. I think that this worked well to keep us all togeth...
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