Full Of Beans

This past Monday our class began a plant unit.  We are reading about plants, creating procedural writing pieces about how to plant a bean seed and we are part of a collaborative group that all planted seeds yesterday and will be recording our learning on a Wiki. Students will be collaborating with students from around the world through the wiki, Skype, and google hangout.  Here are a few pictures of what we have been doing this week...

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Bring Your Own Device Friday

Last Friday the grade 1's were encouraged to BYOD in.  I feel that allowing children to bring in their own devices will give them an opportunity to swap roles with the teacher.  I also want my students to learn that their device can be used for so much more than just gaming.  That it can be a learning tool that we can use in our classroom. For our first BYOD, our learning goal was for  the children to bring their device in and...

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