My Ten in Ten

I spent ten minutes at recess today taking pictures around my school.  I saw the idea on Twitter from a couple of different teachers that I follow.  Here's one of them.   

So here goes.

One of our many painted ceiling tiles.  

Another painted ceiling tile.  This one was made by two of our students and their twins
 from Quebec from the exchange trip in the fall of  2006.  I have been involved with four exchange
trips in my years at Major, three with Quebec, and one with Nfld.
There have also been others with Quebec and Ontario.  

Our teams met and produced posters telling why they think we should value diversity in our school.

This is the picture that has been divided up for our Art Show next week.
Each student is making a piece of it.  

Elementary Recess, the snow has certainly melted this week.  And someone
remembered to put the flag up at recess.  :)

Working in the classroom.

Jam Concert is coming up May 11 - students are getting ready.  Here's a link to a video from last year.   

No one was in the gym yet.  

Graduation pictures for the last 35 years or so.  I've taught a lot of them.  Yikes!
And I have two sons in pictures on there too.  

Some students reading some posters in the hall.  They were waiting for their
teacher to let them in the Science Lab for Physics.   

Ipod Use in My Class

I really am loving my students' Ipods. This morning we used one of the several Ipods that can be found in our classroom at any given time. We were practicing our poems that we will be performing on Wednesday at the Music Festival in Macklin. We taped the performance, hooked up to the smartboard and within 30 seconds were watching it. The students realized very easily what they each need to work on. Powerful learning.

Missing Student found Through Ipod Chat

A while ago, I had students working on group projects, writing news reports in our Disasters Unit in grade 7 ELA. They were to be making their presentations. One student was home after hurting her leg while riding her horse the day before. Her two partners needed her.
Before I knew what was happening her voice was coming through the speakers loud and clear and she was giving her part to the presentation with her partners. Later, she was also able to send in her information through her google doc.

Students using the tools made available to them. You gotta love it.