This week, we connected with our partner classroom, the Oak Lake Community School Kindergarten class, via video call. After a quick review of the student-generated guidelines for a great video call from last week, we focused on a patterning lesson. The grade 1s in my class were able to explain what they know about patterns […]
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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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Although reflection is an ongoing part of the project based learning model in our classroom, I want to take time at the end of this special Olympics project to think about the learning and teaching involved. Some reflections from my perspective: I loved the enthusiasm! Students and teachers alike got really excited about our Olympics
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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
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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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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As I explained in my most recent post, my students and their families have really taken ownership of our Olympics project and they have been working on research at home. More students came this morning with information to create their own blog posts! (You can view the latest student post here.) I am looking forward
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Our Olympics project is off to a strong start! Yesterday morning, I had planned a “normal” morning of mini-lessons, Daily 5 English Language Arts, guided reading groups and student conferencing. As we gathered at the carpet for our first mini-lesson, one of my students announced that he “had to get something” and quickly returned with
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My hardworking and curious group of Grade 1s has jumped on board for our Olympics learning project. After our Skype call launch with the OLCS Kindergartens on Tuesday, our class did some research together to answer two of their inquiry questions. This allowed me to model some basic research. Students suggested we use the internet
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