My class is awesome! Absolutely awesome. So awesome, in fact, that I need to shout it out to the world, We had such a fun time Friday afternoon at our school-wide dance celebration. There were so many great performances to watch within an atmosphere that oozed positivity and encouragement. It was an amazing afternoon – [...]

This afternoon our entire school is involved in a Dance Celebration. Our contribution is based on the official “We Day Dance” that was promoted as part of the We Day Celebrations across Canada earlier this year. We Day is part of the Me to We campaign sponsored by Free the Children, a Canadian-based organization dedicated [...]

World Math Day is done, but World Spelling Day is here! This is this event’s first year and next year the World Education Games is hosting a World Science Day as well. Scheduled to begin on March 3rd, we can actually access the site starting today, March 2nd because like World Math Day it is [...]

After a week of sorting classrooms and finalizing placements, we finally just spent our first week together as a new class. And if the last few days have been any indication, we’re are going to have a fabulous year! We have remained a 6/7 class with slightly more 7′s than 6′s this time, but I’ll [...]

We’re finally all up and rolling! Every student in Division 2 has an individual blog now and they are definitely worth checking out. Some topics may have more than one person covering it, but each student has individualized his/her blog and you’re sure to find a unique perspective on each one. Have fun exploring them using the links to the [...]

This is a common North American expression that transfers the idea of digesting food in the stomach to mulling things over in the brain. It’s when something stimulates us to think and provides us with intellectual nourishment. Every Friday shortly before the class is dismissed for recess, Division 2 enjoys their snack together while I share some “food for [...]

In the first few weeks of school, our class set about deciding how we would develop a positive learning environment and classroom community. Using Flickr photographs, we brainstormed ideas about how these images could represent what we collectively wanted to see in the classroom (thank you Mrs. Smith for the wonderful idea). For example, some suggestions [...]