Another important part of our Olympics inquiry is learning about Canadian Olympic athletes. Students were really excited to hear that locally-trained figure skaters, Paige Lawrence & Rudi Swiegers, would be going to the Olympics. This was our first athlete connection in our Olympics learning, so we spent some time “getting to know” these athletes. We […]
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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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We had a fantastic Skype call today with our partner class in Grade 1 at Hamiota Elementary. We began by updating each other on our latest research (my class had just read the Grade 1s blog posts) and then we shared the photographs and art that we had created to celebrate the Olympics. The Grade
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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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After our skype call on Tuesday, all of us had jobs to do. Our job in kindergarten was to find the answers to three questions. We thought that we could look on the internet, visit the library, and ask people. We did all three things. To make it easier to ask people, we made a
Is there a summer Olympics? Yes. There are summer and winter Olympics. Other information: The winter Olympics happen every 4 years. The winter Olympics were held in Vancouver, British Columbia 4 years ago. This year’s winter Olympics are held in Sochi, Russia. Medals are given to the top 3 finalists of each sport. The medals
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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This is a post written with my Grade 1 class after we worked together to research two of their inquiry questions: We had lots of questions about the Olympics. Here are some of our questions and answers. What are the circles on fire that we saw in the video? They are the Olympic rings on
As Mrs. Caldwell just posted, we are going to be working on a collaborative Olympics project with her Kindergarten class! This morning, we had a Skype call with the Kindergartens. I explained to the boys and girls that a big event is happening in the world this winter, but did not tell them what special
