These eagles are sitting on 3 eggs.


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I forgot to add to the Week-At-A-Glance that tomorrow is anti-bullying day. Everyone don’t forget to wear pink tomorrow!! We will have a competition with Mrs Brown’s class – Who will wear the most pink?

Anti-Bullying awareness, Keisja Cox. Her mom Terri Jacobs Cox lived in Port Hardy and went to PHSS

This week is all about Dr Seuss!

  We were lucky enough to be invited to Fort Rupert early this month to watch performances from students at Fort Rupert School.   Students in our class were very excited to see and learn about some of the traditional stories and dances from First Nations people of the local area.  Thank you to Bianca’s dad for all the great photos!

On Friday, Feb 24  the Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreement was signed at the Big House at Fort Rupert. This second Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreement represents an ongoing commitment between the school district, local Aboriginal communities and the Ministry of Education.   Through a continuing collaborative partnership between all parties we are committed to improving educational achievement for all Aboriginal students. We proudly acknowledge this collective relationship of shared responsibility and decision making to set goals to meet the educational needs of Aboriginal students.

GOAL 1: All Aboriginal students will experience a sense of belonging and respect
through the recognition and honouring of their culture, history and values.

GOAL 2: All partners will work towards increasing the level of academic success for
each Aboriginal student.

GOAL 3: All students will experience Aboriginal content in all subject areas and at
all grade levels.

GOAL 4: All partners will work together to foster success for Aboriginal students
through relationship building and partnerships with parents, families and
communities.

I have had parents, teachers and students all ask me why I have Kindergarten and Grade 1′s blogging.  I even ask myself in the beginning of each year, when the learning curve is steep and I feel a bit overwhelmed by new students, this same question.  My answer to this has varied slightly as I read and connect with other teachers around the globe who also use this tool but my main goal continues to help students learn to write.

In Kindergarten and in Grade 1 we are learning the basics of writing and the purposes for writing, blogging gives us both opportunities.  Communicating with the world is the main reason children write, these communication tools are changing for my young students.  Through blogging they can see how powerful writing can be and a real purpose in writing for an audience.  Their blogs are also a showcase for their learning .  Their progress is clearly evident on these blogs, students can see it, parents can see it and I can see it.  The interesting thing I find is that several students have been extremely motivated to use this tool to write while other students clearly enjoy the paper and pencil form.  Why? I am not sure but I do always see an importance for giving students choice while offering a variety of forms of communication.

In my Sunday morning coffee/google reader/twitter/internet session I found this interesting post with some great links.  Henrietta Miller’s blog Techie Brekkie  was particularly interesting in her post about Blogging in a Primary School and one of her links include this great video from Rachel Boyd  Why let our students blog?  Rachel has said it well on this video I am sure I do not need to recreate this wheel.  Thank you Rachel for sharing your ideas.

Do you see blogging as a useful way to teach writing skills?  What challenges or concerns do you have with this writing form?  Why you think some students are more motivated to communicate digitally than others?

We have been inspired by Mrs Cassidy’s Grade 1 Class in Moose Jaw Sask. to make number stories.

Today we recorded our stories for you to see!  Tomorrow we will post our stories onto our personal blogs.  Students did a great job telling their stories and also being a great audience for this session.

Thank you Mrs Cassidy’s Class!

On February 15 we will celebrate the 100th day of school.  We will participate in fun activities that celebrate the number 100.  We have learned a lot in 100 days, many of us can do things we couldn’t do before.  We have about 100 more to go before we leave for summer break in June.

I would love to know what you have learned at school.

Any visitors to our blog can also post what they have learned at their schools!  Please type an answer into our AnswerGarden and let us know what you have learned after 100 days of school.

What have you learned in 100 days at school?… at AnswerGarden.ch.

We are also creating a wiki to represent numbers 1 to 100

100 is a lot

is our wiki that you can post a picture to represent the numbers 1 to 100.