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Welcoming Syrian Refugees

The conversation deepens, the project expands and the possibility for learning and caring expands exponentially.

As a little girl, I do not have lots of memories of bedtime stories and being surrounded by books. I had Beatrix Potter books from our dear friend, Mrs. Patrick and a collection of Little Golden Books. I had a set of Children’s Encyclopedias with actual colour pictures of Pinky and The Blue Boy. SchoolContinue reading “Anne with an “e””

“Norman, Speak!”

Caroline Adderson welcomed student representatives from all of the elementary schools in the VSB to a celebration of literacy along with their librarians and principals or vice-principals. “Norman Speaks” was the book selected by the Vancouver Elementary Principals Vice Principals Association (VEPVPA). Each year the VEPVPA “Celebrating Literacy Committee ” selects a book. Continue reading ““Norman, Speak!””

ABC Research Reports

My Grade 3 students in the GR 3/4 class I teach on Monday and Tuesday are doing research reports using BookCreator for The Celebration of Learning at our school. The teacher librarian in the school has created a strong collection of books on Canada at a variety of reading levels to support the high numberContinue reading “ABC Research Reports”

Blogging for Thinking – Reboot

As you may remember from the earlier Blogging for Thinking post, Virginia Bowden and I started our inquiry project in February of this year with two groups of students identified as gifted. These students were participating in two different district programs at an elementary school in Vancouver. Our quest was to use blogging as aContinue reading “Blogging for Thinking – Reboot”

Blogging for Thinking…The next step

Virginia and I are continuing our inquiry project with our students, two groups of students in district gifted programs. This is the Kidpost entry given to our students to allow us to be very specific about the learning intentions of our blogging project. Blogging for Thinking Technology is a tool just like a pencil orContinue reading “Blogging for Thinking…The next step”