Teaching the Teachers!

Congratulations on Div. 18 doing a wonderful job of teaching over 20 teachers this past Tuesday!  I have received many thank you letters expressing how impressive and respectful our class is.  Everyone was so impressed with Div. 18's use of language and explaining their connections, wonderings and thinking.

Some of SmartLearning goals are for students to think deeply about stories using SmartLearning Tools and be able to coach/teach others.  Div. 18 inspired many teachers to go back to their class and try A/B partners, walk and talk, bubble thinking/inferencing, hidden object and whip around.  If you are not sure what these SmartLearning tools are, ask your child to show you... they are the experts :)

Sorry the blog has said I have too many photos.... Who me??? No!!!!  So until I figure out how to get more photo storage there will be no more photos :( But we will continue to update it.

 

Olympian!!!!

We had a wonderful opportunity to cheer and congratulate Nathan on his London Silver Metal !!!

Music with Mrs. Meedin

We are jammed packed with singing, movement and learning to use all the musical instruments she brings for us to learn with.   Here are some of the photos from our Music Lesson...  She gave us homework to practice too!

Nature Rubbings and Exploring

Our class is getting really good at using juicy words to describe things!  It rained a little but our kids had a great time with nature rubbings and exploring the forest.  Our class sure enjoys exploring the outdoors, whether it is creating art with nature, trying to build with natural material, run and play, or investigate why things are the way they are.  We even use the rock collecting for the story pole to explore number sense in the class.  Our class has decided to count the rocks by tens as Mathematicians like to count efficiently!  Great problem solving and counting Div. 18!

 

Happy Halloween

Div. 18

Our own Mr. Hempseed giving us a safety talk!

Look at all the kids dressed up.

The Fitkalls