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, …
Month: April 2019
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 Ever since the new curriculum has come into effect in BC, our text books have been a bit out of date.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 …
I was thinking about this post for a while before I started typing. What was important for to to say about Community Circle? I realized the best way to explain it was to tell you how I came to use Community Circle every day in my classroom. How it came to be in my Classroom …
Many years ago I wanted to make the switch to tables from desks. I hated everything about desks. Mostly the mess that lives inside of them along with spending precious time each week or two weeks doing a desk clean up. I wanted clean and easy. Tables were my answer. But where to put the students’ …