There is so much to be gained from walking through the corridors of your school and popping in to see what classes are doing. This morning, I happened to pop into Kim Duffy’s Grade 3 class and discovered a really neat learning experience the class was exploring on Non-Fiction Text Features in digital books. Kim…
Category: online
Safety Online in the Early Years
This blog post is a follow up to an information sharing session we had with parents where we discussed helping our students / children find a balance between their on / and / off line lives. One question that came out of this session was, “How can we help our young children stay safe while allowing…
Readers Adapt Their Strategies for Reading Online
At UWCSEA East, we have been implementing Reading Workshop (also known as Reader’s Workshop) to help our students develop into fluent, capable and effective readers. Our Literacy Coach Michelle Goodison has been supporting teachers in this framework, and a lot of professional development has occurred to help teachers introduce the strategies that help students best…
Getting Connected – the Why and How
Why? Screenshot via sxoop.com/twitter/mosaic.pl The question of why connect is an important one for us to consider. Of course, being connected can lead you to lots of great resources and ideas for lessons, but what we are really talking about here is connecting with people. It is through these personal connections that you can build…