I have been enjoying visiting our classes over these past few days. I managed to get into all 20 classroom at least 3 times over the last 3 days, and I have seen many wonderful examples of teaching and learning.

In kindergarten, I watched students working on patterns, centre time, play, painting, drawing, solving social challenges and having a great time in school.

The primary students continue to work on letter formation, vocabulary building, spelling, reading, crafts, art, gym lessons (great dancing), sentence building and sharing compliments about classmates.

Our intermediate students have been working on writing stories, solving algebraic equations, playing math games, learning about French culture, collaborating on projects, reading, spelling writing, ecosystems, mapping, rights of children, and math tests.

We participated in the Great British Columbia Shakeout today, and all classes report the students did a good job (although one class had to practice duck, cover and hold on during recess).

My favourite quotes of the week include:

“Just to clarify. You don’t have a right to have a nanny.” ~ grade 6 teacher in response to students reporting out on the rights of children. I shared this one on twitter.

“You know what. I would like a little brother and we will name him Brown, because brown is my favourite colour. And Pink. Pink is my other favourite colour.” ~ a kindergarten student sharing her thoughts with me yesterday.

“Mr. Beveridge. I lost my tooth. My last one.” ~ a grade 7 student who now has all her adult teeth.

I have to go to a grade 7 parent meeting now. Parents are starting to show up.

Take care.