Students Reflect on our Olympics Project
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Olympics
Skyping an Olympic Torch Bearer
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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Olympics Math
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
Supporting our Olympic Athletes: Postcard Writing
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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Olympics Project: Building Knowledge of our Olympic Athletes
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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Olympics Postcards are Designed!
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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Olympics Stuff
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
Information about the Olympics
Russia is a big country. Sochi is 10 hours ahead of us. Plane tickets cost $5000 to $7000. HJ
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Olympics Project: Art
Right from the project launch, there has been great potential for our Olympics project to address a number of subject areas. One of the first things students suggested was Olympics-themed art, so I was pleased to provide some opportunities this week for students to create art projects that linked to their learning. After we learned
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