Since January, we have been learning about the Olympics: the history, the location, the athletes, and the events. For the past 3 weeks, we have been consumed by all things Olympics! We began every morning with a visit to the CBC Olympics site where we watched highlights from the previous day. The musical Olympic montages […]
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When we said goodbye to our senior buddies at Christmas time, they asked if we could come back soon. We decided that Valentine’s Day was a great time for a visit because Valentine’s Day is when you show people that you care about them. So we made Valentine’s cards for our buddies and learned some
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Today, thanks to the Skype in the Classroom website, my class Skyped a torch bearer from the 2012 summer Olympics. Mr. Jon Tait was an excellent guest speaker who shared a lot of interesting information in a kid-friendly way. We even got to see the torch he carried, which was very exciting for my students!
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We continue to add new elements to our Olympics project, ensuring that our learning activities help students achieve outcomes in a number of subject areas. So far, my students have been doing lots of reading and writing related to the Olympics, including reading magazine articles, researching athletes, composing Tweets to share their learning, writing
Now that we’d distributed our postcards and classes were ready to write them, it was time for a skype call with Mrs. Obach’s class to update our partners on how we were doing with our project responsibilities. We were excited to share with them how we surveyed the school and used literacy and numeracy skills
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Tuesday was a huge day in kindergarten–we only had two kindergarten days this week and so much to accomplish with our collaborative Olympic project with Mrs. Obach’s Grade 1 class. Much to the students’ delight, our postcards had finally arrived on Monday. So our first job was to find out which classes in the school
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We were all very excited when the postcards we designed arrived from the printer this week! Students were eager to start drafting postcard messages, so we reviewed the message criteria we set with the Kindergartens and students started working on their writing. Once students had a draft, they met with me to review, revise and
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We’ve made some exciting connections with athletes through social media, which has led to further Olympics inquiry. Once we’d learned about pairs skaters Paige & Rudi, hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser and skeleton racer Mellisa Hollingsworth, we were excited to find out about other athletes. Our class decided that our Olympics project should include research to
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Another important part of our Olympics inquiry is learning about Canadian Olympic athletes. Students were really excited to hear that locally-trained figure skaters, Paige Lawrence & Rudi Swiegers, would be going to the Olympics. This was our first athlete connection in our Olympics learning, so we spent some time “getting to know” these athletes. We
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My Grade 1 students have continued to work with Mrs. Caldwell’s Oak Lake Kindergarten class to learn about the Olympics. Many students have done research at home with their families and made guest blog posts sharing their findings. We have also done some research and posts together as a class. Students worked in small groups
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