Mrs. Spencer

••••••Connecting, Sharing, Learning••••••• We are a Grade 1 class from a little town in the Porcupine Hills, where the Mosquito Creek reigns supreme.

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⁦@ABDaleySchool⁩ teachers basking in snow day glory!!!

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Much more valuable to teach a child to choose a good fit book on their own than to have adults tell them, “you can’t read that.” What a message. It’s like teaching your child to mitigate reading risk all by themselves. How powerful.

[Kathleen⁷ 캐슬린 💜 @kmarch67]

Dear Teachers: A Plea

Today I had a mom & daughter in buying books. The daughter desprately wanted a graphic novel but mom refused. "Honey I'm sorry but your teacher said I shouldn't let you read those anymore, they're too easy. She wants me to challenge you." The result...(1/2)

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Teacher’s kids in the summer...spending the morning at the school while the moms get some work done! 💜⁦@mrsjbecker⁩

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@Teachawatt @ABDaleySchool 💜

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Check out this concrete representation of counting by 2s using cuisenaire rods... @LRSDNumeracy

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We build our conceptual understanding of skip-counting today thanks to some strategies from @@JulieHStern !

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Grade 3 teachers committed to taking extra care of the soon to be butterflies 🦋

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@kraemerJ103010 best part of PD- running into old friends! It’s been too long!!!

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@devon_farrar @cchschool This fills my heart right up! Xo

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@Rutherfordb95 Woo hoo!!!! I’m so proud of you Miss Rutherford!!!! Congratulations 💜

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Something I am very mindful of... passing along the message! Encouraging colleagues to please consider some of the points in here! Dos and Don’ts of Classroom Decorations | Edutopia https://t.co/F4Nfwb4zZk

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Woo hoo! This is excellent news for our school community!

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Played Fill the Stairs from @MathforLove with Grade 1s today. Such great conversation and a great way to link place value. When asked about strategy, some kids said- “we wanted to fill the stairs in order 2_, 3_, 4_, 5_ etc etc.” Tomorrow we’ll try again with different dice! 🎲

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Today we planned out our veggie gardens using the tinker trays in our learning commons!

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All the more reason to include more play in my classroom!

[Joel Seaman @JoelSeaman]

Play is not separate from our learning. It’s not for “after our work is done”. It’s the vehicle for our language development, social learning, emerging STEM thinking & more. It’s interwoven into everything we do, & engages students heads, hands, & hearts. ❤️ #playbasedlearning

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Little impromptu sing-along during recess today! Thank you ⁦@WalkOffTheEarth⁩ for being so inspirational to these little guys!

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@HartmanTeri @HartmanTeri I’m not sure who you are but I’ve never related to a tweet more in my life than I just related to yours. “I’m 2/3 done so I should be able to wrap those last 1000 words up no problem.” 😳

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Today we worked on labelling diagrams... I can’t get over owncute these squirrels 🐿 are...