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Playing in 5th Grade

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on May 8, 2012 | 3 Comments »

A few months ago I did a series of posts on Explore , a time for kids to play. I shared how we did this in my kindergarten classroom, and wondered how this might look in the upper grades. Well, two of my amazing colleagues, Devon Parks and Tara Boone, decided to take on the challenge [...]

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Playing with the Big Kids

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on January 22, 2012 | 15 Comments »

This morning on the CBS Morning Show there was a story about a high school student who has possibly figured out a cure for cancer. Angela Zhang got interested in bio-engineering as a freshman. She started reading doctorate level papers and began to see it as a puzzle that she wanted to decode. She eventually [...]

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Literacy Explore

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on January 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Our kindergarten literacy block is structured with time for whole group instruction, small group & one on one instruction, book box time, sharing and choice stations. Literacy Explore is similar to reading and writing stations. In fact, I call it that so the children know that it’s not quite as open-ended as our Explore time. [...]

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Explore!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on January 20, 2012 | 5 Comments »

“In play a child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behavior. In play it is as though he were a head taller than himself.” Lev Vygotsky Several years ago I had a huge “a-ha” moment while reading Serious Players in the Primary Classroom: Empowering Children Through Active Learning Experiences. If you’re interested [...]

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