Mrs. Devon Caldwell and I were selected to be a part of Team Canada at this year’s Microsoft Global Forum. We are in Barcelona, Spain for the week for this special event, which focuses on recognizing innovative teachers and schools, providing relevant professional development and improving learning for students around the globe. We will be […]
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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
Now that we’d distributed our postcards and classes were ready to write them, it was time for a skype call with Mrs. Obach’s class to update our partners on how we were doing with our project responsibilities. We were excited to share with them how we surveyed the school and used literacy and numeracy skills
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Tuesday was a huge day in kindergarten–we only had two kindergarten days this week and so much to accomplish with our collaborative Olympic project with Mrs. Obach’s Grade 1 class. Much to the students’ delight, our postcards had finally arrived on Monday. So our first job was to find out which classes in the school
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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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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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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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