In this blog you will see a journey being taken by students and teacher to build up our minds, muscles and imaginations together through inquiry, exploration, investigation, problem solving and teamwork!

Purposefully developing relationships with parents is so very important to our classroom learning community. I want parents to feel that they are part of our learning community and know that we are all a team doing everything we can to help their child reach their fullest potential: Parent/Teacher/Child. I start out the year meeting parents during our Kindergarten Screening process. I wanted parents to be able to create something special for their child while they were waiting so I put our…

Looking for all about me or get to know you activities for first day or first week of kindergarten. Making self portraits with loose parts is just one of the fun activities and ideas you'll find that will help you get to know your students in the beginning of the school year. Great for kindergarten and first grade students.

At the beginning of every year my teaching partner and I incorporate lots of name recognition, construction, and writing provocations to engage children. Here are some of our favourites so far this…

I love starting the school year with this activity. It’s easy, parents love it, and it immediately gives the children a little boost of self-esteem by identifying a part of themselves that they like…