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How do you integrate the core competencies?
- during play (sharing...)
- class meetings
- they’re happening all the time - learning in the moment
- continual discussion
- a couple posters per month(ish) - pictures - using the posters to focus our attention
- using the vocabulary in our conversations
- bringing it to their attention
- personal responsibility
- through communication

What are you planning to do for Makers Faire?
- felting
- spindle
- iSpy book (loose parts)
- sewing - stuffed animals
- felting the Colour Monster
- temporary sculptures

Share your thoughts regarding term one report cards. What shifts have you made in your assessment practices?
- much more diligent with FreshGrade and add more specific comments that pertain to the curriculum
- better observational notes
- capture quotes from children
- portfolio (hardcopy) dabbling in FreshGrade
- still using C - but shifts have been driven by MakersSpace
- more observing and listening
- not going in with the answer I want
- noticing emergent curriculum
- student self-reporting
- facilitator as opposed to “shoving knowledge” on them
- Report Cards- Parent reflections, ELL parents were able to write (offered to help but no one took it) glad I included it. Had parents in to translate for their child
- using labels or post-it notes for quick observations
- post-it binders with competencies in mind
- shifting to looking for the good behaviours

How do you integrate Indigenous education?
- “Learning involves patience and time”
- “Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story”
- using picture books
- acknowledge the aspects that are embedded into our daily practice (sitting in a circle, acting out stories, reading a story in two parts, embedding the students’ stories into their art)
- weaving
- Indigenous education is community oriented - looking inward

How do you teach self-regulation?
- talking about keeping out minds and our bodies still “quiet”
- situational conversations
- music
- relaxational exercices
- zones of regulation
- quiet area
- extra support in transitions
- helping them become aware of their challenges
- walking through the problem - solving the problems
- using words to solve problems
- keeping our bodies calm as an example for the students

How do you integrate technology?
- documentation (pictures, videos, voice recording)
- videos for language (songs, stories)
- projector to share and whole class games
- brain breaks (Go Noodle, Just Dance)
- iPad with apps
- going with buddies to the computer lab
- document projector (math game, books)

Share two stars and a wish for your class?
- Stars: Strong sense of community & effective use of using the Zones of Regulation / Wish: I want to help my student make friends (supporting the parents - play dates, play at the playground)
- Stars: Their creativity, and great imaginations / Wish: We continue to work on self regulation
- Stars: They’re very focused and curious (risk takers) / Wish: For them to continue to look from other children’s perspectives
- Stars: They’re so creative and imaginative / Wish: We need to continue work on being kind to one another.

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Integration of Core Competencies
-monthly and weekly reflections
-direct teaching
-we constantly refer to them and kids are using the language

Makers Faire
-design and create complex machines to do with simple daily tasks and market it
-design and make beyblades

Thoughts from Report Cards
-Loved the new format of the report cards
-Parent Voice piece was awesome. Most  parents were supportive and wrote thoughtful comments

Shifts of assessment practices we've made
-moving quick scale language to new language and ensuring assessment language is in line with the new reporting
-putting more trust in myself (the teacher) that the students know where they are at
-students can explain their own strengths and weaknesses

Indigenous Education
-comes up in SS with the textbook
-in Math, thinking about how you can measure without a ruler as well as using manipulatives and looking at patterns
-learning about it in Science
-listening to stories and moving into discussions

Teaching Self-Regulation
-"Find a girlfriend, it works"
-working on zones in the classroom, self-identification
-teacher uses tally marks on white board for class so that they're aware of impulse controls

Technology Integration
-code.org
-bill nye style videos for presentation
-lack of technology in the school
-math games online: Geogebra, Khan Academy
-Fresh Grade

TWO STARS
-My class is genuinely kind and helpful (M)
-I enjoy the humour in my class (F)
-I enjoy collaboration (M and F)
-I appreciate all the students in my class who do not directly receive my attention (S)
-I like the people I work with (S)

and A WISH
-working on more strategies for impulse control (M)
-I would like to enjoy the rest of my year as I have been this past week ( S and F)

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What great ideas you have!!!!!
You are such an amazing teacher and role model. I want to be just like you when I grow up!!!!