Yesterday the Kindergartens did a cross-curricular project on Chinese Dragons, in advance of us learning more about Chinese New Year next week! We listened to a folktale read aloud about how dragons came to be, had a great group discussion about the events in the story, and made connections to it as well. Make sure … Continue reading
We just finished a big science project today! Students built three different types of boats, all out of tin foil but each with a different shape. They estimated how many marbles it would take to sink each boat, sunk them all, and then determined why they each sunk. Finally we had a discussion about which … Continue reading
We read our second Roald Dahl book this year, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and created a project to finish it all off. Students each chose one of the Golden Ticket winners from the story that wasn’t Charlie. They wrote a description of what (s)he was like and the sequence of events that led to … Continue reading
Once the 2Js finished reading The BFG and watching the movie, we needed to compare their two types of media portraying the story. Students started out discussing some anchor questions among themselves, then they wrote down their opinions, and finally videotaped themselves discussing the questions using the Chrome screen recorder, Screencastify. Take a look!
Our 2Js were playing with words! After reading the book Each Peach Pear Plum, we analyzed rhyme, rhythm and pattern, then made a a class book about ourselves! Check out the two videos below. The first one shows some highlights from the PROCESS of playing with our words to creating our book. The second video … Continue reading
The 2Js have just started Exploring Liquids in science class. After a mini-lesson yesterday about some of the main characteristics of liquids, students showed their understanding today by demonstrating each characteristic for each other. We then added our key understandings along with picture/video cues into a Google Slides page. Take a look!
In Social Studies this year, we’ve been learning about three diverse communities in Canada: Iqaluit, Meteghan and Saskatoon. To synergize our learning about the landscapes, natural resources, goods and services, students each chose a community to build in Minecraft to show what they know. This was a truly powerful project that fully engaged the kids … Continue reading
We’re just finishing up our Data Analysis unit in math, and we needed to do one last graphing project. So we did it with a cup full of jelly beans, of course! Students needed to sort and tally the colours of their jelly beans, then they made a concrete and bar graph with their data, … Continue reading
After learning about what buffalo hide paintings are and some reasons why First Nations people used them, we made our own “Buffalo Hide Paintings”. Students chose some First Nations symbols and also wrote their names in Cree. Finally they wrote a paragraph about buffalo hide paintings focusing on a strong topic sentence and adding descriptive … Continue reading
Our 2Js worked very hard writing narrative stories that have a clear beginning, middle and ending. After they edited and revised their first drafts, students completed their final copies. To illustrate these stories, they used the chrome coding app, Scratch Jr. Finally students used the chrome extension Screencastify to combine their Scratch Jr. interactive stories … Continue reading
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