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 […]
Kids Who Code Code-a-thon Meets Project-Based Learning! Read More »
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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I am excited to start a new school year, especially since I know I have a great group of students and parents to work with! For the first time, I am looping up to Grade 2 with my Grade 1 class from last year. I think it is going to be great and I can’t
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We’re excited to share Little Hands Extended at the Riding the Wave of Change conference. You can view our presentation slides here. The right tools are key to supporting and enhancing project-based learning in your classroom, and here are links to a few of our favourite resources: Microsoft Educator Network: create a free account to access free
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We have been working on reducing our energy consumption through the One Hour, No Power challenge as part of our Classroom Energy Diet. Students in my class chose to aim for 10 hours without power to achieve the highest level for this challenge. For this challenge, the description stated “One hour of no power is
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