2W Feelings

My guest celebrity and I enjoyed spending time with Mrs. Weatherby's grade twos this morning.  Mrs. Weatherby and her students were talking about sharing feelings and filling the buckets of others.  The students said that fillng someone's bucket means doing something nice for that person.  After reading a story to the children, the students worked in groups drawing emotions, labeling them, writing how they could fill this person's bucket, and preparing to present their emotion to the class.  David Hasselhoff stopped by to sing "Hooked On A Feeling", and Mr. Monty rocked it out!

Notice the chart paper!

Math, Manipulatives, and 6May

Using the story, "Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday", as the new information, Mrs. May had her students figure out just how much money Alexander's grandparents gave him.  Then, to practice their problem solving abilities using strategies they learned in class, Mrs. May divided the students into groups and had them attempt to solve four problems involving whole and decimal numbers demonstrating their understanding of multiplication and division of decimal numbers.

Resistance Is Futile

Mrs. Weatherby and friends have been teasing me about my love of group work and chart paper when presenting to adults.  Well, one of her "teasing friends", Mme Hjertaas, was caught this morning using chart paper with her students.  Resistance is futile!

Mme Hjertaas and her grade six students were writing sentences focusing on subjects, verbs, and appositives.  Mme Hjertaas gave them scrambled words/sentences from their anthology, and students had to rearrange the words creating complete sentences.  Stick with me, Mme, and you'll go places:)

3S Word Choice & Wordless Books

Mrs. Stewart's gr. 3's were learning about authors and their writing styles, and today they focused on Chris Van Allsburg.  Students compared Van Allsburg's style to Roald Dahl's and Megan Macdonald's styles.  After reading "Ben's Dream" and brainstorming ideas for words to write on the pages, students worked in groups writing a story to go with the "wordless hockey story pictures". 

Like all of our staff, Mrs. Stewart uses the GANAG lesson plan format.  For more information on this style of lesson plan, refer to the book "Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time".



Mrs. Stewart being dramatic



ÉCPS Staff Collaboration

During Wednesday's staff meeting, staff focused on identifying student learning activities focusing on higher order thinking skills and student engagement.  Great Things are Happening at ÉCPS.

Je peux faire des additions jusqu'à 12

In pairs, our grade one French Immersion students created their own addition equations using dice, white boards, and smarties.  Students were so engaged they never once asked to eat the smarties!  Finally, Mlle. Grenier drew two addition equations on the smart board and students demonstrated their understanding by writing the equations in their math journals.