Who is sick of being asked to remember their Why? It feels like a broken record every time we get overwhelmed as teachers. But what if this common piece of advice is actually missing the mark? ...
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My kindies and I had a lot of fun exploring our 5 senses. There are so many experiments that you can do with kids and we did many of them over the year but this exploration was one of my favori...
http://mmehawtree.blogspot.com/2016/03/simple-science-observation-activity.html
So I thought you might all like some free stuff? I started a Teacher pay Teacher store in March this year and I have been busily adding new things that I think would be useful to French Immersio...
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"I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down." The 3 little pigs has always been one of my favorite units to teach in grade 1. The students have a lot of fun hearing and reading di...
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Earth day is a great excuse to learn about all sorts of things. Conservation, recycling, reusing and reducing, humans effects on the natural environment and of course crafting and ingenuity. ...
http://mmehawtree.blogspot.com/2015/07/15-classroom-activities-for-earth-day.html
We are having lots of fun in grade 1 learning all about butterflies. The butterfly kit we ordered was very disappointing. All the caterpillars died and so we have been reading books, watching vid...
http://mmehawtree.blogspot.com/2015/06/butterfly-life-cycle-fun.html
Sight words are vital to unlocking reading for many students but finding fun ways to introduce them and to give students a chance to practice them can be challenging. I usually introduce one n...
http://mmehawtree.blogspot.com/2015/04/games-and-activities-for-reinforcing.html
Using images as writing prompts is nothing new and some would argue that it is an old way of teaching that stunt student creativity and growth when writing. In my experience though a well used wr...
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So the Ipads are gone from my classroom and have been replaced with 12 shiny new Samsung Galaxy tablets. First order of business was to see which of the things that I was able to so with my stu...
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First things first.... How do I turn this thing on?! I can use an Ipad, I can use this thing right? The reality however is that you can't expect this device to behave like an Ipad there are some ...
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We had a lot of fun in grade one this week. We made long snowman using our names. I got the ideas from Art with Ms. James . First students had to plan out their snowman. We wrote their names i...
http://mmehawtree.blogspot.com/2015/02/snowman-name-math-and-measuring-activity.html
I remember having a conversation with my son when he was in grade 9. His teacher had given him a self directed project to do. He got to choose the topic and the format for the presentation, he ...
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To start off our shape unit the students and I read "Tout le Monde est en Formes" by Ed Emberley. After reading the book we went on a hunt for shapes with the Ipad camera. We had a gre...
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Dear Parent of the Average Child, I'm sorry. Your child is wonderful. She is always at school on time, does her homework most everyday, works well on her own and is patient with those aroun...
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We had a happy accident happen in Mme Hawtree's grade 1 class this week. We have special guest come and speak to us about our feelings and thought and the words that we say. She used thought b...
http://mmehawtree.blogspot.com/2014/05/kids-are-smart-using-thought-bubbles.html
Q: What is the difference between a fish and a piano? A: You can't tuna fish. source: http://www.jokes4us.com/sportsjokes/fishingjokes.html I recently had the opportunity to participate...
http://mmehawtree.blogspot.com/2014/03/activate-for-better-learning-or-fishing.html
I was watching NCIS last week and heard a line about Gibb's famous rules It got me thinking about my "rules" in my classroom. I'm not talking about the "Raise your hand" or "Speak French...
http://mmehawtree.blogspot.com/2014/03/ncis-rules-and-classroom-culture.html
Tagxedo does everything that Wordle does... and a little more. It allows you to use shapes and words to create word clouds with a little extra style. There are many preset options for qui...
http://mmehawtree.blogspot.com/2014/02/have-you-met-tagxedo-wordles-much.html
Don't get me wrong. I think what those young boys did in Nova Scotia was amazing. Standing up against bullying takes guts and they did make a difference that day. If you don't know the stor...
http://mmehawtree.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-problem-with-pink-shirt-day.html
I'm a big believer in partner talk time. My students get a chance to discuss new ideas, teach each other new vocabulary, read with a partner and work together often during the day. With little ...
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I was a terrible artist as a child. I couldn't cut, stay in the lines or make anything that looked anything at all like what the teachers and other students seemed to be making. I was terribl...
http://mmehawtree.blogspot.com/2014/01/my-favorite-beginning-of-year-art-book.html
Todays #Kinderchat prompt is One resolution for 2014. @Math_Johnson asked the same thing a December 29th. At the time I had posted "Have a meaningful one on one interaction with each student...
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I saw this tweet this morning It lead me here: http://www.kinderchat123.net/2014/01/introducing-2014-january-post-day-blog.html As I read the post I could hear my inner Barney Stinson s...
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Last year I decided to see if I could find a digital planbook that would work for me. I tried a variety of planbooks - free and paid but my favorite and the one I will be using again this year ...
http://mmehawtree.blogspot.com/2013/08/weekly-planning-using-planbookedu.html
As the school year ended I had more than one parent ask me for some apps to add to their iPads to keep students learning this summer. I thought I would share some of the apps I came up with ...
http://mmehawtree.blogspot.com/2013/07/apps-to-keep-your-kids-busy-and.html