We started our money inquiry today and it went fantastic! I began with putting out a large piece of paper for the students to jot down what they know about money. Some drew pictures, some wrote the names of the coins, a few were drawing addition facts with coins. Then I put out the materials and told them they could explore with them and that later we would come back and add to our chart about what they know about money. The materials I put out were: cash registers, coins, money stamps and ... Read the Post
Going Shopping! Money Inquiry…
ipad as a document camera! So awesome!
I was at a workshop today for "Inquiry based learning" and we were sharing what we've been doing in our classrooms. One of the other teachers brought an ipad stand that her school has. She uses it to record the students when they are working on a problem together so that she can later go over the video and listen to their thinking. I thought this tool was awesome and is WAY better than me holding the ipad and ending up with a shaky video. Do any of you have these stands at your ... Read the Post
April Linky….Another first for me!!
I decided to try out my first Linky Party from Mrs. Kelly's Klass.Here are her instructions below:Here it goes!1. April Favorite: My favorite thing about this month is most certainly all of the chocolate. Though I'm not sure it's different than any other month for me. I consume a lot of chocolate (and Diet Coke).2. This April in my classroom: I have started doing more inquiry based learning and this month my students are interested in plays. They have created a play and ... Read the Post
Freebie!! Updated Guided Reading Table Posters
Spring is here and the snow is FINALLY starting to melt here. I think I might even come out of my igloo and go for a nice walk tomorrow! Okay, so we Canadians don't really live in igloos...but it has been mighty cold the last few months. How's the weather where you are??Anyway, in honour of spring I decided to update my guided reading table posters. I was using some old posters that I had shrunk down into a size that would look nice on my table but I found that they had too ... Read the Post
The Desk Fairy!
Well Easter weekend was super busy but so much fun for my little family!Over the weekend I created a new "Desk Fairy" note for my munchkins at school. We've had issues with messy work spaces lately so I needed to put an end to that. I found myself having to spend 15 minutes at the end of the day having to tidy the floor and desks off.So, last week they got their first desk fairy ticket (well some of them did at least!). They were amazed. A few of them asked if I was the ... Read the Post
Emeraldalicious!
So, in the "about me" section I talked about how my own little Munchkin inspired the title of my blog. Her favourite book series is "Pinkalicious" and she wanted that to be the name of my blog! Well I tweaked it a bit but still kept her theme.This is the latest book in the series that she got from the Easter Bunny! She was so excited! The Easter Bunny set it on top of the toilet (for some light reading of course).Anyway, after reading it, I think I might read it to my students on Earth ... Read the Post
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