A Question of Colour

The Grade 5 team was lucky enough to have Noah Katz (Digital Literacy Coach at Dover) speak to them about Visual Literacy last week. He spoke about the elements of Graphic Design, referring to the acronym:CRABContrastRepetitionAlignmentBalance Before Students had the opportunity to design a poster, then give it a makeover. We saw some really interesting…

A culture of sharing

share your ideas by Britta Bohlinger on Flickr! We teach children from an early age to share. Learning to share the sandbox, our favorite toy, or a book is a formative experience that we all go through as we learn to relate to others.A lot of emphasis is placed on sharing when we are young, but it’s just…

Google Maps in the Classroom

We were fortunate to attend the Google Summit here in Singapore last week where Patrick Green (@pgreensoup) ran a workshop on using Google Maps in the classroom. We were so excited by the prospect of using this tool in our classrooms that we presented the ideas to our Grades 3 and 5 teaching teams. Step 1While…