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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There are 3 different colors of medals: -gold -silver -bronze People take turns carrying the torch from the place the Olympics was last held to the place it’s going to be. On the very first day of the Olympics they have a celebration called opening ceremonies. At the opening ceremonies the person with the torch
6000 athletes will compete 85 countries will be competing in 15 different sports for the Olympics There are 89 different events. Twin sister Tracy Barnes gave up her Olympics spot for her sister Laay because she was sick. AJ
We had a fantastic Skype call today with our partner class in Grade 1 at Hamiota Elementary. We began by updating each other on our latest research (my class had just read the Grade 1s blog posts) and then we shared the photographs and art that we had created to celebrate the Olympics. The Grade
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Russia is a big country. Sochi is 10 hours ahead of us. Plane tickets cost $5000 to $7000. HJ
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