Looking for something to get students excited about writing creative stories? Try this one – Spore’s Creature Creator which is available here for free http://www.spore.com/ In an attempt to get Grade 5 students excited about story writing, I introduced them to this Creature Creator. Students can very easily create any creature of their imagination with this program.

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  Setting goals at the start of the school year is never easy; as a Gr. 6 Humanities team my colleagues and I knew that during the year we would like to “trial” Google Docs for a grade wide assessment. It seemed the logical step, our tech department was investigating the possible move to [...]

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Three of our wonderful grade 5 classrooms (Chrissy, Robin and Ali) have been collaborating all year on a Reader’s and Writer’s workshop project with 4 other schools around the world.
We initially made the connection because we were looking for a meaningful, year-long, collaboration based on our curricular focus for the year [...]

As we move into full swing for our 1:1 planning at my school, we find ourselves in the position of celebrating and over-communicating about what we’ve been able to achieve with a laptop cart program. I decided to use prezi as it’s like a Keynote, but it’s much more dynamic to share those big picture [...]