The Kenton Girls have started a new form of reflecting and sharing thanks to inspiration from our fellow Microsoft Expert Educator, Brian Aspinall. Check out his post on Carpool Karaoke Education Edition! Here’s our intro:
Kenton Girls Carpool Karaoke EDU Edition – Prequel Read More »
Our latest collaborative project is well underway! The grade 1s are looking forward to participating in the World Wildlife Fund Polar Bear Walk, which they have planned in partnership with the Oak Lake Community School Kindergarten class and a group of Brandon University Faculty of Education students. We hope that we can raise awareness about
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This week, we connected with our partner classroom, the Oak Lake Community School Kindergarten class, via video call. After a quick review of the student-generated guidelines for a great video call from last week, we focused on a patterning lesson. The grade 1s in my class were able to explain what they know about patterns
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We had our first video call with Mrs. Obach’s Grade 1 class in Hamiota today. We had some difficulty with our video calling tools so we ended up alternating between Google Hangouts and Facebook video caller (our network settings kept blocking my video camera). Both are excellent options for collaboration…Facebook has fantastic video quality and
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As we head back to school, we are excited and energized for another great year of collaboration and learning. Devon and I are both very passionate educators that believe strongly in doing our best for our students. Sometimes the whirlwind of teaching, presenting, learning and “life” can leave us feeling pretty depleted. In the past,
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If you are a regular reader of Kindergarten Diva, you’ll know that my kindergarten students love yoga. They’ve been passionate about it since I first started teaching them in December. In May, I discovered another thing that they really love, and that is making. After attending Riding the Wave in Gimli, my teaching partner Leah
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Our most recent “connected classroom” project was organizing National Sweater Day at our schools this month to promote energy awareness and energy conservation. National Sweater Day is a World Wildlife Fund initiative which Mrs. Devon Caldwell’s Kindergarten class invited us to take part in. (You can read about their project learning here.) Although this was
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On Friday, December 12th our class co-hosted the Kids Who Code Code-a-thon with Mrs. Caldwell’s Kindergarten class at Oak Lake Community School. After preparing for this event over the last few weeks, my Grade 2s were very excited to lead their coding activities and share their coding expertise. I was incredibly proud of the Grade
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The Kids Who Code project is well underway in our classroom! Our class has been exploring coding for the last couple of weeks. We’ve learned that coding is “giving computers instructions/directions” and students have had the chance to try out a variety of coding tools. My students have learned a lot (and so have I!)
Kids Who Code: Exploring and Evaluating Coding Tools Read More »
My teaching partner and friend, Leah Obach, and I have worked together for a number of years on a variety of learning projects. For the past few years, our collaborations have focused on service-based projects where we have strived to make a difference, both locally and globally. A great deal of rich, real-life learning has
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