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!)
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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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This school year, I am working on a very special project with two other educators in Manitoba, Mrs. Connie Lowe and Mrs. Devon Caldwell. We have been fortunate to receive support for our work from the MTS Reflective Professional Practice Grant. Our project is called Kids Who Code and it’s all about helping our young
We are excited to be sharing a presentation at the 2014 MAMT SAGE conference. Our presentation notes are available here: http://tinyurl.com/nd44va5
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Presentation notes available here Please contact Devon and Leah if you have any questions or you’d like to connect your classroom with ours!
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If you haven’t yet checked out the Pigeon Project, read about our latest learning adventures here and hop over to my classroom blog Mrs. Obach’s Class blog to see some wonderful student-authored books that my class has recently published! (If you’re up for a romantic story, read “The Pigeon Finds a Girlfriend” Or perhaps you
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Since both Mrs. Caldwell and I are looping up with our students this year, we have the benefit of resuming our collaboration this year with students who already know each other. Since my class has been working diligently to publish the pigeon books they started last year in Grade 1, they were excited to share
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As we regularly Skype with Mrs. Obach’s Grade 1 class (now her Grade 2 class as she has looped with this fabulous bunch of learners), we knew that they were passionately interested in reading Mo Willems’ pigeon books. When they decided to write their own pigeon books in the style of Mo Willems’, we followed
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