May 2012

After my student brought up his concern that our reminder notes might be illegal, he and his peers decided that the best way to find out would be to ask a police officer.  So, this week I bought some Skype credit and on Tuesday, we called our local RCMP office.  I had contemplated calling ahead […]

After our students decided that making reminder notes would improve reusable bag use, they developed criteria for what a good reminder note would include.  As students gave suggestions, Mrs. Caldwell shared her screen and recorded students’ ideas.  To help our young readers, we also included pictures.  Near the end of the call, one of my

After the OLCS Kindergartens investigated reusable and plastic bag use in their community, their class shared the results with our class.  We were surprised that so many people used plastic bags, since we all have lots of reusable ones!  The problem seemed to be that people forget their bags. Next, our classes joined via Video

My Junior and Senior Kindergarten students have become very conscientious about reusable containers and bags (much to their parents’ dismay, at times). Last year, our school launched a reusable bag campain. Our middle years students designed a logo and we had hundreds of washable reusable bags printed. Each family in our school received 6 reusable

After playing Once Upon a Monster, our classes completed this sorting activity collaboratively.  It was helpful to have Mrs. Caldwell’s Junior and Senior Kindergarten students to tell us about composting, since that is something that many of my students were unfamiliar with.  Using Bridgit, we took turns sorting the items into the correct bins. Our sort

In grade 1 today, 25 of us started the day by examining our lunches for reusable containers such as food containers, water/juice bottles and reusable lunch kits.  Some students had 6 or 7 reusable containers and no/very little garbage!  As a class, we had a total of 82 reusable items.  We created a pictograph to