I’ve been neglecting my blogging with the whirlwind of activities going on at school. From speech festival and the Remembrance Day service to professional development days and report card writing, it’s been a busy couple of weeks for this Grade 1 teacher! A LOT has been happening in our classroom, but one of the most […]
Farmer Appreciation Day is in the works! Read More »
We are pleased to be sharing about our project based learning at the Brandon Teachers’ Association LIFT conference in Brandon, Manitoba. Please visit this link to access our presentation slides.
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My boys and girls came in from recess, engaged in a very serious debate. How did the dinosaurs die? Could I please “esplain” it to them because everyone had different ideas. 15 minutes ago, no one had cared about dinosaurs so I was rather surprised. But I gathered the boys and girls on the carpet
Out of the Blue: A Brand New Learning Project! Read More »
Each year, our classes engage in project based learning. In our classrooms, this means that students choose a project which is important to them and we work together to learn, share and accomplish our project goals. Students from my Grade 1 classroom work with Mrs. Caldwell’s Kindergarten classroom via technology so that we have a
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My latest guest blog post has been posted to the Partners in Learning Network. It explains how we launched our project based learning this year and gives teachers ideas for starting project based learning in their own classrooms. To start talking about learning projects for this year, my Grade 1 students Skyped Mrs. Caldwell’s Kindergarten
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I’ve just posted my second contribution as a guest blogger for the Microsoft Partners in Learning Network Hot Topics blog. Click here to read the post and learn more about the steps Mrs. Caldwell and I use for project based learning in our classrooms. Our Steps: Introductory Lesson/ Project Launch Collaborative brainstorming Selecting a
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I’m very excited to have been asked to post as a guest blogger on the Microsoft Partners in Learning Hot Topics blog. Educators can join the PiL network for free at www.pil-network.com to have access to blogs, lesson ideas and online professional development. Microsoft is currently looking for more teachers to join their Expert Educator
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We began our day with a skype call to Mrs. Fenn’s Grade 1 class in Avon, Connecticut, at Roaring Brook Elementary School. We connected using Skype in the Classroom. They taught us about the life cycle of frogs, amphibians, tadpoles, toads, and how to care for tadpoles. They did a great job! We told them
The Planning and Learning Continues! Read More »
It all started when one of our students brought in a frog for show and tell. We became very very interested in frogs. Mrs. Caldwell said that we could spend a couple of hours researching frogs and learning more about them. We watched a Brain Pop video on frogs and a Discovery Education video. We
Hopping to Help! Our Latest Kindergarten Project Read More »
One of the greatest challenges when looking for appropriate gaming opportunities in middle years and high school classrooms is finding games that connect with curricular outcomes. Despite having a large selection of gaming consoles at my disposal (Original X-Box, PS2, Nintendo Wii), finding useful gaming experiences is difficult without buying games and playing them first.
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