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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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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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
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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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