MJ Moran, Diane Potts

Novel studies, Buddy Reading, Current Events...how does one set parameters to talk about and teach Literacies in Language Arts? Here are two novel studies and two terms of Buddy Reading from my continuously developing perspectives on Literacies in Language Arts as a grade 6/7 teacher.

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Work on Harris and Me, the book by Gary Paulsen

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This is my project. -Henry

Brad Dean, MJ Moran, Sherran Pickering, Diane Potts

The tradition of oral literacy dates back to earliest human attempts at creative expression. Today, the oral literacy modality has been somewhat devalued in our schools. For the most part, literacy is equated with "the written word;" the more proficient one is at reading and writing,...

MJ Moran, Diane Potts, Begbie Students

This account is a compilation of individual student representation's of their learning throughout the novel study, 'Zack', by William Bell. Each representation includes their view of their learning in the novel study and their project, which was a summative task at the end of the study. To...

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Blair the genius and his genius projects

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This is how I thought Zack behaves, and how Zack mostly feels in the most desperate times. Please answer my questions.

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My presentation I made for my Zack project.

MJ Moran, Diane Potts

Every Science class is an opportunity for each student to expand their knowledge and understanding of Science and also build their literacies practices. Being a Scientist requires thinking, talking, writing, representing and reading like a Scientist.

MJ Moran, Diane Potts

A unit combining French language structures and electronic family albums.

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By: Division 15

MJ Moran, Diane Potts

PE and the activities taught in the gymnasium can be daunting and intimidating for some while liberating and invigorating for others. When the students are viewed as able learners of a core subject and the gymnasium is considered a viable classroom; opportunities for language learning, body...

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MJ's class from Dec.06-Feb.07

Rosemary Milne, MJ Moran, Begbie Students

A project containing the pictures that division 15 recreated from Rob Dunfeild's paintings in the book called "If Sarah Will Take Me"

Students made connections to family beliefs and values to create a class "code of conduct" in words and symbols. In early September students asked their families about family beliefs or values related to getting along. They were told that these beliefs or values could be represented...

Tonya Holmes, Diane Potts

In Kindergarten the children arrive with all different levels of experience with pencils and writing. Some children have never held a pencil and others may be familar with writing letters. My goal is to get them writing short stories, letters and poems by the end of the year.

R Caverzan, Brad Dean, Romina Park, Diane Potts

A multimodal Kindergarten unit on the theme of "How Things Grow." Created by Romina Park.

Tonya Holmes

My favourite unit the entire year in Kindergarten is based on the classic tale of The Gingerbread Man. Using different versions of the story we explore writing, math, and science. And more importantly we use our imaginations and have a lot of fun.

R Caverzan

"Show and Tell" time has the potential to encourage and promote the growth and learning of oral language development.

MJ Moran

Part of learning is knowing 'how' you are doing. As a classroom teacher I am regularly assessing, reporting and communicating 'how' students in my class are doing for myself, for themselves and for their parents/caregivers.

MJ Moran

I wrote these accounts with the intention that they might begin to represent the wide variety of rich learning opportunities that are part of my everyday life in my classroom for my students and for myself. They have in turn offered access and representation to me.

MJ Moran

In my accounts I see that I teach literacies across every subject. I encourage and enable students to access and represent their learning/knowledge. I build a classroom environment that foregrounds postive communication, the prime directive being knowledge flow. Each member of the class is...

Diane Potts, Margaret Vis

R Caverzan, Diane Potts

Recognizing the rich understandings of the world that ESL Kindergarten students bring with them to school, a teacher explored how multimodal investigations of sounds might support early literacy development by connecting that knowledge to classroom activities.

Diane Potts, Marisa Romilly

In this project, students were given the opportunity to express their creativity by exploring photography and being taught how to alter their images using Photoshop.

A permanent mural created by students on an

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A collection of electronic books representing how the students of Division 15 celebrate birthdays with their families and friends.

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Projects created by students in Division 15.

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To practice blending and working with pastels I had Division 15 replicate images by the Group of Seven. Their attention to detail and eye for shape, form and design are very well developed. Best of all - they loved the activity.

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French presentations created by students of Division 15 representing how they celebrate birthdays.

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Books of poems written and illustrated about the environment.

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Diana and Sharice decided the ML site would be the best way to create their project representing the different stages a rock moves through over time. This is their end of unit science project, for term two in Division 15.

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This term in Music with Ms NT we learned how to play chords on guitar, how to play three new songs and we began to prepare a STOMP performance. As well, some of us sing in choir.

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This term in PE we did basketball, dancing, gymnastics and skiing. We also learned about nutrition from Amy and her friends from UBC.

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A science open house slide show showing our work from term 2, 2007/2008.

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The things we did in Literacies in term two of the 2007-08 school year

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Division 15 took a trip to VanDusen Botanical Gardens to look at the cherry blossoms and other spring flowers. After their walk about they wrote and illustrated haiku.

MJ Moran

Division 1 & 15 work with Dr. Abby Schwarz. They learn about experimental design, whether or not salmon have a sense of smell, and habitat choices woodbugs make.

Independent panel on Canada's future role in Afghanistan.

Division 15, also known as MJ's class have been doing a few activites for PE.

This project is about Division 15 preparing a STOMP! routine for Earth day at Begbie. STOMP! is a group of people that likes to perform in front of lots of people. What they do is make music with objects that they can find. Enjoy.

Begbie Students

A project about what Division 15 did while reading a book called Flipped.

in this project, we (div 15) are trying to find wich kind of conditions woodbugs like more. damp or dry, light or dark, and warm and cool are the conditions we were testing.

A few presentations about division 15's trip to Camp Sasamat.

We went to the exhibit KRAZY at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

This term has been very helpful because we were able to do many different exciting things such as Shakespeare to help us learn and have fun, reading reflections are also a good idea because they improve our thinking. CE helps us keep track of world events.

How we learn math, why we learn it that way.

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In this project you'll see Div 15's Dream Vacations (not all projects)

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These projects were created at the end of the beginning of the year French unit. Groups of five or six students worked together to find a theme they could create a project from and then set to creating the project, knowing the final form would be electronic and on this site.

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George's AMAZING, creative, and awesome personal novel project on Double or Die by Charlie Higson.