I have been spending time in a grade 3/4 classroom working with a teacher to transform the physical environment and hone some of the frameworks being introduced and used.  I was feeling quite nostalgic last night when we left as I did really love teaching my multi-age class. Many of the early intermediate frameworks she gets to use with her older students are lots of fun to teach.  When I walked back into our kindergarten room I wondered how much rigor was happening with my little kinder through our process learning. Can you teach alphabet knowledge and sight words without worksheets in Kindergarten? As I considered all of the authentic work happening it was clear that the answer is yes! Using a guided release model, I teach all of the kindergarten literacy concepts and together we practice every day. The children have daily literacy play where they have an opportunity to practice and apply either alphabet work or sight word work (at this......

Preparing for our Stomp Rocket experiment on Force and Motion with Morgan from Nanaimo Science and Sustainability (NS3). Only two rockets landed in the trees. I thought that the children were pretty brave to test out our theory about gravity by swinging a cup full of seawater over their heads. And yes the water did stay in the cup!! ...