I love how conversations are starting to evolve online. One began today, when C. mentioned that her and her sister go to a creek nearby. "Frogs are there and mosquito larvae. There are also pollywogs." I. unmuted and asked, "What's a pollywog?" 1/? C. replied, "A pollywog is a baby frog." Then I. said, "Frog on a log. That rhymes." C. then said, "Wait! We have a book called that." She ran off and grabbed the book. When she held it up, I. said, "I have the Frog on the Log book too." 2/?

This morning, we listened to this fantastic video by @LisaKingHWDSB on the #DishWithOneSpoon Wampum Belt. We stopped throughout the video to discuss her key messages. In this video, C. is sharing how they only “took what we needed” for a nature art project. (A threaded post ...) Then we spoke about some things we do to keep the earth clean. K. began the discussion by talking about “picking up the garbage.”

Then there was a child in our class who unmuted & asked another child, "Were you happy that the Leafs lost the other night?" She remembered that he liked the Canadiens more. This led to a discussion on hockey & the last time that the Leafs made it past this playoff. 1/? She was excited to show the Austin Matthews (apologies if I've spelled this wrong) jersey and mini-stick that her mom got her at @TimHortons today. 2/?

At our playdate this afternoon, W. had a big book of birds (there was a lot of talk on birds in our morning meeting time yesterday). He found his "new favourite bird" a mountain bluebird on "page 354." He told us that it was his favourite "because of the colour blue." 1/? When he mentioned the page number, Paula wondered what kind of bird was on page 355. He told us, "there is no 355. It goes to 356. There are swampish colour birds on there." Paula had him flip back, but no number was written down for 355. He then flipped the page again. 2/?

I love this for so many reasons. 1) He wanted vehicles so he wrote to ask for them (using writing to communicate). 2) He confidently sounded out vehicles on his own. His sound choices make sense to me. 3) He chose the word vehicles. Not cars or trucks. 1/2 If you want kids to use grown up vocabulary, use it with them. On Friday, a Gr. 7 teacher came up to one of our kids outside, curious what she was doing. “This is my habitat for a grasshopper.” A habitat?! He couldn’t believe she used this word correctly in context. Really 2/3...

I keep seeing photographs of K classrooms full of tables two metres apart with chairs for kids to sit in spaced out away from each other. I keep wondering, what makes us believe that 3, 4, and 5 yr. olds will spend their whole day sitting at tables? (A threaded tweet.) When behaviour happens (& it will, based on the environment itself), then what? This is not the child’s fault. @susanhopkins5’s message here really resonated with me: self-reg.ca/a-self-reg-len…. What are the limits, & then what CAN we do within those limits?