The mysterious 3 Way Conferences between parent, teacher, and student. If you were wondering how to make this a meaningful conference, well here is your guide. It is a transformative practice for your teaching, one you won’t regret. My Journey to 3 Way Conferences The dreaded parent teacher conference. Is that your sentiment? It was …
I believe in routine in my classroom. I find routines so important as they make my classroom management just that much easier. My morning routine is no different. I used to do a morning worksheet. Students came in and got their duotang out with their morning worksheet of work, but honestly, it wasn’t ever anything …
At our beginning of school year Professional Development Day, we did an activity about starting the day with soft start. This movement is becoming more and more popular, and it is easy to see why. Kids should start their day like we do, slowly. Have a chance to wake up and get ready for their …
Every teacher knows the key to classroom sanity is routines. Classroom routines are predictable and predictable means that the students know what to expect. When they know what to expect, they will follow the expectations and things go smoothly. It becomes clockwork. If done well, a teacher isn’t even necessary to be there. Kindergarten teachers …
Volleyball. The sport every class learns in PE at some point in the year. It has so many merits. So many of the sports we play are territorial (basketball, hockey, football, soccer), so giving students a chance at a net or wall game is awesome! In volleyball, the key skill is learning to be ready …
Keeping track of student’s reading can be something of a mystery to me. When I first started teaching, I had students keep a home reading log. Some kids were diligent, some struggled because they didn’t care or they lost their logs. I found that because so few of these logs got handed in, I as …
I feel like in my corner of the world, Daily Physical Activity was the catch phrase about 8 years ago. We were mandated to add a phrase to our report card that reads something like: {student name} participates in Daily Physical Activity. And we were mandated that we needed to provide at least 30 minutes …
Okay, so in reality, I don’t run Daily 5. I run Daily 2! But I aspire to add in a word work component, but it just hasn’t worked out yet…. So yes, in my class we have Daily 2 and it is AMAZING!!! I remember the summer I discovered Daily 5 and the CAFE books. …
This project was an absolute highlight of this year for me and I think for my students. It came about with a glimmer of an idea. I was working with grade group colleagues to plan out our year with socials. They looked at our syllabus and saw immigration and both of their faces fell… “Immigration, …
This year in my social studies curriculum, I had to teach about the first contact between the First Nations and the Europeans in Canada. Ever since the new curriculum has come into effect in BC, our text books have been a bit out of date. It isn’t that this topic isn’t in the text books …