C awoke ready to make breakfast. Of course he needed a recipe, so he drew each item, and then labelled them: bread, butter, cinnamon and raisins. The last two he copied from the packages, and as you can see in one of the images above, he's beginning to adopt a traditional pen grip and trying … Continue reading Junior Kindergarten Online – Journal – Days 13 & 14
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Junior Kindergarten Online – Journal – Day 12
As promised, today we are not going to try the synchronous Google Meet, as it seems to be more stress than success. C was happy with this decision, and happy to head to the Virtual Classroom (Bitmoji) where he had listened to one story and viewed a video on volcanoes yesterday. I was happy that … Continue reading Junior Kindergarten Online – Journal – Day 12
School Online – Journal – Day 29
After more than a week of delays, then finally a memo outlining our reporting process, there is now an entire "about face". I can't share it, because I'm not the official "messenger", but I know it is making the rounds in Facebook and Twitter. And yesterday's post seems prescient: many of our Ontario school boards … Continue reading School Online – Journal – Day 29
School Online – Journal – Day 28
I began my day with the voice of Stephen Hurley of voicEd.ca, in conversation about "rhythm". And that had me thinking about schedules and cycles within education. Then, when I listened to CBC Radio One, near the end of the day, it was Bruce Sellery talking about Income Inequality in Education with Gill Deacon on … Continue reading School Online – Journal – Day 28
School Online – Journal – Days 19, 20 and 21
This should have been only Day 19, but both Saturday and Sunday were filled with work, attempting to connect new teachers to class lists so that classes could begin today. We were partially successful - but there are still many classes without a teacher, despite efforts by our team over the past two weeks, without … Continue reading School Online – Journal – Days 19, 20 and 21
