Keeping a internal promise I made this summer I am trying to blog more this year. One of the things I will do is to do monthly updates on my pedagogy and goings on at school. Welcome to the end of my first month.
In math we started a collaborative project with two schools in Ontario. My posts were all under the Mantario Running tag at the Sargent Park Mathzone. I am grateful to my two Ontario schools who also participated. I need to apologize about my fizzling out at the end. We managed to incorporate a good deal of a ratio, rate and proportion unit around our cross country seasons. Now that cross country season is over I hope to connect with Andy and Heather's classes in eluminate and do some creative problem solving.
Speaking of running. Did you know that my Cross Country team won all four categories eligable to us this year. Fantastic running and they trained over 3500 kms collectively. Great job runners! Here is our map.
View Mantario Running in a larger map
Our next Math Unit will be on graphing. I have found two great lessons from NCTM that fit into our Citizenship Project this year. I am looking forward to pushing my students to learn graphing and learn about world issues at the same time. Amazing how things fall into our laps sometimes.
Speaking of Citizenship, Sargent Park, is part of WeDay this year.
This is so exciting. If you are interested in teaching responsibility and citizenship to your students their website is where you need to go. I am amazed by what the Free the Children organization presents to teachers and students. We still will be doing our old favorites to build citizenship this year. Pay it Forward, 25 Cents a Day and 2 Minutes to Make a Difference. But we are adding more fabulous things this year. We will do a Halloween Foodbank Drive. Instead of going out and asking for candy students will have a choice to go to their neighbours and ask for donations of canned goods to take to a foodbank.
Amazingly enough October was our foodbank drive month. Kismit again!! In November we will do the Vow of Silence that is to educate the students about children who are subjected to exploitation, poverty and the denial of their basic rights.
It seems like so much to do in so little time but with a team effort we can build the leaders of tomorrow and teach the curriculum too. With that in mind I have started a new blog. Very much in its infancy but a place for my students to go when they are trying to make a difference. Titled Embracing Citizenship it will be a hub and information stop for this new Citizenship Curriculum my team and I are creating at Sargent Park School. Wow all of that in September.... so much time still to go and we are filled to the rim with goodness. Looking forward to October and November.
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