The students are becoming more and more independent and proficient at choosing a tool and showing their learning with their iPads. As you can see by the picture below, they think it is important to get just the right angle when taking a picture of a non-digital artifact! Check out the learning on their blogs about digraphs that they were taking pictures of.
The students recently wrote thank you letters to Elizabeth Schoonmaker for sending us a copy of her wonderful book Square Cat.
After writing the letter, the students reflected on their skills as writers. What am I doing well? What do I want to get better at?
You can see each student’s self reflection on his or her blog, but I have included one student’s reflection below.
This week our class has been exploring some First Nation artifacts.
We also watched a Discovery Education Live Stream from a First Nations classroom in northern Saskatchewan. While we watched, the students tweeted questions and observations that they had. Some other classes were tweeting about what they saw and wondered at the same time. Because we were all using the same hashtag, we were able to put all of the classrooms’ tweets together in a Storify.
A classroom from New Zealand has sent us a video tour of their classroom in response to the video tour we made of our classroom. We will get to meet these students via Skype later this week!
Our Skype buddies in North Carolina sent us this picture to see if we could figure out what it was. We used our best viewing skills to help solve this mystery. You can see this photo and each student’s guess and explanation on their blog.
Each of the children in our class read their guess aloud to the students in North Carolina, but despite the students’ careful detective work, none of them were able to solve the mystery. When they learned what it was, a loud chorus of “EEEUUUUCCCCHHHHHH” filled the classroom.
Have you figured out what it is?
It’s a wall of used chewing gum in Seattle Washington. Who knew?
Today Barb Frazer, an Indigenous Knowledge Systems Educator, came to answer some of our questions about First Nations people.
She has a lot of knowledge and answered a lot of the questions the students had. Thank you, Ms Frazer!
This is a VERY popular place to work in our classroom, but it is in especially high demand during reading time.
