Life.Learning.Doodles… are Heck Awesome!
It all began when I saw snaps of snapchat artists and their drawings. I was in aww of their playfulness and use of doodles in real life. I wanted to do that too.
August last year I was unpacking boxes in my new classroom. As I looked at the boxes I had left to unpack I suddenly an idea. What if my classroom had a pet. It would need to be something fast and easy to draw…what about a hamster. I picked up my phone, used the drawing option in snapchat and drew my very first Stanley the Hamster.
Three week ago (after a rabbit hole of a discussion in Reading class) my students decided they were curious and wanted to learn more about the Great Wall of China. That discussion lead to more discussion, that lead to an impromptu research project, that lead to my students making their first green screen video (the first of many…they were a great success). Continue reading “There is No Too Hard……My Journey Into Project Based Learning”
I’d waited for the moment, this moment… all summer since the end of last school year. The day I got to introduce blogging and student choice time to my students. Continue reading “When Anything Is a Choice…Anything Is Possible”
