A wonderous and playful adventure today with Jennifer Mason and Kelly Vickaryous as they shared their classrooms and invitations with us. Finding story in your world was the focus. Many aha moments were had and stories were created out of beautiful (and not so beautiful) materials.  click image …

A great early learning/kindergarten website:  http://fairydustteaching.com/

Our new book, Living as Mapmakers: Charting a Course with Children Guided by Parent Knowledge, has been published. It includes chapters by 12 teachers in our province, mostly teachers of young children, as well as two conceptual chapters Deb Pushor wrote to introduce the book and a final chapter w…

Here is an excellent resource for Reggio/Inquiry Inspired mathematics for early learning (K-3)!!!  http://janicenovkam.typepad.com/reggioinspired_mathematic/ https://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/131278007X/typepad05-20 

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I have been using Planbookedu.com for three years now.  It is an online dayplanner.  The benefits of playbookedu.com are: able to move and copy lessons within your planbook, but also from previous planbooks.  So, I can check back to what I was doing at this time last year, and copy a lesson in…

Here are two daily 5 evaluation sheets.  The first one is a self evalution for Read to Someone, and the second is an evaluation form for Listen to Reading.  Thanks to Diane Burningham from Reynolds Central School in Melfort for submitting these! Read to Someone Self Evaluation Listen to Reading …

I came across this number recognition game on pinterest.  It is very easy to play and all you need is a piece of paper with numbers 0-10 on it and a pencil.  I played this game with Kindergarten students at the beginning of the year.  Most of them got the game, a few were still struggling with co…

I came across this website through a class I am taking.  There are some great resources for Health/Social.  Check it out! Learning to Give

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