Despite the arctic temperatures of -25 degrees Celsius (plus a windchill too), the kindergarten students and I were eager to bundle up in our warmest clothes and visit our senior citizens at Oakwood Place (the local seniors residence). We had handmade ornaments and cards (created with Microsoft Auto Collage) in tow and a repertoire of […]
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When my students and I attended Farmer Appreciation Day in Hamiota with Mrs. Obach’s Grade 1 class, we had some extra time. So we decided to visit my 89 year-old grandma at the seniors’ residence for a few minutes. Well her face just lit up and she laughed and smiled more than I had seen
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The big day finally arrived! We finished setting up yesterday morning and then farmers started arriving. We had decided as a class that we would dress up in farmer clothes (like coveralls, jeans, farmer hats or boots) so we looked extra special! We had our art and posters displayed on our hallway bulletin boards and
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Students wanted to create special posters for decorating our classroom on Farmer Appreciation Day. We brainstormed messages together and students decided whether they’d like to work with others on big banner posters or individually on smaller posters. Students worked really hard to do their best printing, drawing, designing and coloring over the past few weeks.
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Since we were scooping cookies until the end of the day on Friday, I had to put some cookies in the oven to bake after students left. When I took the pumpkin molasses cookies out of the oven, I knew there was a problem… The recipe said the pumpkin molasses should crack on top and
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Once we returned from our successful grocery shopping trip last Friday, we were ready to start baking cookies for Farmer Appreciation Day. We had a quick meeting at the learning carpet so I could go over the plan with students and review expectations and rules for baking. Since it was during our usual math time,
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Once we’d made our pumpkin puree, it was time to get the other ingredients to bake cookies forFarmer Appreciation Day. As a reading and writing activity, we reread the recipes we’d selected and wrote a list of ingredients we would need. There were some leftover supplies from previous projects, so next, students went through the
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When students decided they’d like to make their big pumpkin into pumpkin cookies, we asked a parent who grows pumpkins to share a “tried and true” recipe. We read the recipe together as part of our text type study. One of the ingredients in the recipe confused students – it called for “pumpkin puree” and
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My latest guest blog post for the Partners in Learning Network explains our action plan for helping farmers. Check it out here!
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Class Decision Making: We are planning to make farmers a special treat for the Farmer Appreciation Day we are hosting. After much discussion and a couple of rounds of voting, we decided to bake chocolate chip cookies and pumpkin cookies. With that decision made, we’ve got right to work on the preparation required! A side
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