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Our Unit of Inquiry: Personal journeys show the way that people change and can lead to new opportunities. One way to map change overtime is to record our thoughts onto a Voice Thread. The best thing about a voice Thread, Kyle discovered, is that we can share it on the blog. The really cool thing [...]

Yesterday was our first buddy session. The grade three students help the Kindergarten students write comments onto their blogs.   Blog Buddies-Grade 3 and Kindergarten. on PhotoPeach

Today we had a maths lesson in the library. Brian Farrell ( our teacher-librarian) has given us access to a portfolio of his professional quality photographs showing patterns. He created this portfolio especially for the kindergarten children, and as a free shared educational resource. Please respect creative common licensing and attribute the images to Brian [...]

The story so far… The children have been fascinated by space since August. http://blogs.yis.ac.jp/pagez/category/space-children-generated-inquiry/ (This is all the blog posts about space). So we have made a stop animation film about Mars and a book to go with the film. Next week we will be making the audio recording for the book, yes it is [...]

This video shows the children engaged in imaginative play. You can see them solve interpersonal issues, problem solve and observe an  abundance of creativity. Mostly it is just good viewing!

Game based learning, an educational tool. Moderation in all things

Children make their own video of how to do a number boggle.

Practicing what we preach. We ask children to present and speak up… so now I am. HK-IT-KG- intergrating IT on PhotoPeach

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Children collaborating to plan a party. Applying writing skills.

How well is my child doing learning about technology? Today we created expert badges. Every child picked their area of  technological expertise and we made them a sticky label. They can now help other adults or children. Needless to say they are very proud. PLEASE ask them about their badge. The children have had the [...]