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This year the CBE created an Office 365 environment for all the teachers and students. Different applications started to be available during the year: OneDrive, Sway and OneNote amongst others. As a Surface user, I already knew and used OneNote for personal purposes and soon I started to play around with it and discovered a myriad of possibilities for my lessons. I started to use it and soon it became an essential in my class, especially since I do not have a textbook for Mathematics or Spanish. From all the technological tools that I have used in my career, this one has been the most transforming. These are the main 3 reasons why I love it: You can create a Class Notebook for each of your classes. In each class you have, by default, a "Teacher Only Section",  a " Collaboration " section and a "Content" area ( shared with the students in that classroom), and a Notebook for every student. Each student Section has already these sections "Ha

If you teach math, this situation will likely be familiar to you. Students need to solve a problem but they refuse to show their work. I am on a mission to get them to solve problems AND show their work without making funny faces like you are giving them bitter syrup. It is being a tough mission, they do good for a couple days, but then they forget...Anyways, as part of the mission I am creating posters like this so that they see it the way I want to see it. I think I am not asking too much but...maybe by the end of the year? I hope so , this mission is turning out to be an odyssey for now. Pssst...it is in Spanish, but you can easily relate.

Yesterday, Sra. Hernandez taught our class and Srta. Palma's class a recipe from El Salvador: "Pupusas" . We started by washing our hands properly, like Mrs. Larsen taught us, everybody came ready to be cooks. Mrs. Hernandez had all the ingredients ready when we came to the kitchen. First our students  measured using fractions ( 1/2 cup, 2/3 cups...) , after the dough was done, students split it in two parts and made two balls. They flattened the dough using a dish, after they put the filling inside. Finally, they covered the pupusa with the other layer and put it on the pan to toast. They were ready in a few minutes. While a group was cooking the other half were playing a fraction game in spanish.  The pupusas were so yummy! Everybody had so much fun while learnt more on practical use of fraction in our everyday life and learning a recipe from El Salvador. Thank you Sra Hernandez! PS Every student got a copy of the recipe in Spanish, please let me know if you try it

We are working this year around our inquiry question "How do stories connect the past with the present?" , our focus is to have a strong literacy base that allows us to connect all the core subjects and enhance reading comprehension. At the beginning of the year, we started reading the book "The Witches" , by Roald Dahl. I enjoyed reading this book aloud everyday, it allowed my drama side to happen in the class. We had lots of fun and now I have a group of students that have turned into Roald Dahl fans and are researching, reading and making power points about him ( still, three months after) . The plan was to connect art and Spanish with this story , and based on the chapter where the children disappear, we designed "Missing" signs that were displayed around the school hall. We worked the self-portrait technique following "that artist woman " blog guidelines. 1st.- We used a recycled paper as background , with white paint and a roll

Bienvenidos a todos los profesores españoles que acaban de llegar a Alberta. Espero que tengáis una buena experiencia! Jornada de Bienvenida para los 48 profesores visitantes de Alberta, Canadá pic.twitter.com/r5N8juTd8d — Melissa Valdes (@melissavaldesv) September 29, 2014

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We have been doing multiplication for the last few weeks. One of the art projects was related to one of the multiplication strategies: using an array. Students had to design an "Array City" ( Ciudad de matrices in Spanish) designing buildings that had different number of rows of windows. They had to be able to express that with a multiplication equation . They first did a draft on their journals. Then they transferred that to an acetate page using a sharpie. The "windows" have to be big enough to be able to color in with a pastel crayon. Then they colored it using pastels . We finally glued it to a black piece of cardboard. After the art was done, I wanted them to work on the language component of it. We used the iPad app  'thinglink "  to label the pictures with the descriptions , both written and orally in Spanish. They posted them on their kidblog page. This is one example: I really like how thinglink provides a whole different level of c

CHICOS! Nuestra clase ha salido en la televisión de España! Ha sido muy cortito y no salís todos pero estoy contenta de poder haber compartido con mi país como trabajamos en Canada, mis alumnos, mi aula y mi escuela. I am thrilled to be able to see you on tv. I hope you enjoy it. http://www.antena3.com/programas/ciudadanos/momentos/cmo-hacen-pases-dnde-presumen-sistema-educacin_2013100800090.html

Mi investigacion de la trucha arcoiris por Jessie by Jessie Jensen . grade 4, Sra Molina - read or download the free ebook online now from ePub Bud!

Mia investigacion sobre latrucha arcoiris Mia by Mia Calmusky - read or download the free ebook online now from ePub Bud!

Los alumnos han escrito un e-book reflexionando en Español sobre como hicieron su proyecto de "La caja ". Este es libro que escribió K.Hoover, de grado 4. Mi Investigacion Sobre La Trucha De Arcoiris de Kyle by kyle hoover - read the free ebook now from ePub Bud!

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WATER CREATURES PROJECT Our big Inquiry Question is : Where does water go/come form? Some of the questions we are wondering and answering are.... Explore the secrets of the water : what amazing things have you found in the water? In which different forms can you find water? How does water affect the living things around it? Why is water so important to living things ? And to humans? What would happen if we did not have water? How does water affect the cycle of life of animals and plants? How do humans use water to obtain a place to live, energy, food...? How can we be more "water efficient"? Can we use water as a means of communication? How? Where does water come from?here does it go? Do you think water will never end? Which is the impact of human's polution in water? This is a project we are doing in both languages: Spanish and English.

WE ARE PRACTICING  FOR OUR SPANISH PERFORMANCE TASKS L.B. 

La canción de esta semana es muy especial por dos razones: el grupo , Maldita Nerea es de Murcia y además el videoclip está grabado en Santiago de la Ribera , ese lugar tan especial para mí y que os he enseñado en muchas fotos. La letra de la canción la tenéis en la wiki en la parte de "homework" . Que disfrutéis! Buen fin de semana!

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