@AmandaMacDowell

Educator with Central Okanagan School District. wife. mother. lifelong learner. Striving daily to facilitate, promote, and celebrate student learning.

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Lennox’s favourite part of his evening walk. ❤️❤️❤️

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Learning and playing for the win! Students can choose math games and activities once our independent task is done. @ugdsb

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Ha! She isn’t wrong! Kids are very excited for our dance performance this Friday!! Our DanceEd program has been an incredible experience for all of us!! @ugdsb @wcwinegardps

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Who wants to make dinner anyways? Please consider this awesome fundraiser on April 16th.
Grateful for our amazing Parent Council for organizing this! @wcwinegardps

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We have been together for 126 days. Look at all the ways we incorporated this number into our morning Number Chat!
Way to go, grade 1/2’s!!
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Oh Vermont…you are so perfect!

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Wow! We started adding new words to our Vocabulary tree yesterday! When s’s hear a new word, we look it up and discuss its origins. They love guessing where the word came from so we colour code our words from Latin, Greek, Anglo Saxon, Old English or French. @ugdsb

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What a great start! Students loved our segmenting and blending activities! Their favourite was “push the phonemes” where we count the sounds that we hear using play dough before writing the word @ugdsb

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Fun Friday vibes with Literacy Centres! Students worked hard to identify vowel teams, read decodable texts and explore Bug Phones on ugcloud.
An awesome start to a fun day! @ugclima

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We are rocking our vowel teams! The students love Roll & Read activities as they help us decode words by identifying word patterns and improves our fluency. Lots of a smiles on this snowy day. @ugdsb

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One of my favourite days! Pancake Day with the sweetest class! @ugdsb

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I get to work with the sweetest families! Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

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Today we learned what to do with the silent ‘e’ when adding ‘ing.” Mr.S then took the stage and taught this to a student who arrived late. It was a great way to solidify learning for all. Way to go, Mr.S!

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No silent reading here! In Grade 1&2 we talk about reading and with this, we strengthen comprehension and student engagement. @ugdsb

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Fun Friday is off to a great start! Students love our Literacy Centres! Happy Friday, everyone!

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My reminder for today- never underestimate the power of a word scavenger hunt! I didn’t think possessive plurals could spark such excitement. ❤️ @ugdsb

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@BigWhite 🤞🤞🤞❄️❄️❄️

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Today we reviewed adding “s” and “es” to words. We also focused on printing our letters correctly. Students were engaged and applying feedback! Way to go!

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The look of pride when you are celebrated in spelling that tricky word, “know.” Way to go, Miss E!! @ugdsb

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Literacy Centres for the win! Happy Friday, everyone! @ugdsb