Connections are through content. My first week back was phenomenal, and the class energy was electric. Still, it wasn't because we spent the entire week doing icebreakers but rather through read-alouds, writing prompts, mind-on activities, and thinking classroom tasks. 🙌🏻

There’s never a time or place when a read-aloud isn’t appropriate. 💯

I love reading aloud with my grade 8s, especially when coupled with the beautiful activities suggested by Kyleen Beers in “When Kids Can't Read.” Today, we explored and read Chapter 2 of Eric Walters Rebound. Students were hooked, curious and sharing their “gist” statements

Our morning minds on and connection activity was our Red Cup Towers task. We gathered in groups of 5 and attempted to have the towers fall perfectly aligned. It led to laughs and frustration with some valuable talking points on perseverance and resilience 🙌🏻

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We’ve been in school for 1 week now & still finding our groove. It’s wonderful getting to know a new group of Ss every year, but it can be challenging to support the way they need. Spending lots of time becoming aware of ourselves & learning to share that with peers & teachers!

What is a Scientist? Grade 8s explored, brainstormed and communicated their ideas about those that practice different fields of science. We talked about who scientists are, where science is practiced & the challenges in Science. Ss were awesome with our rotation method! 🧪🧬

Today, we had a thoroughly engaging introduction to history class. We used Kent Monkman's depictions of Confederation, an NFB video on Sir John, and our Thinking Classroom Framework synergized with deconstructing photos It was a great fusion of many effective pedagogy 🙌🏻

I had perhaps the most incredible “feedback” on a lesson today. After finishing my read-aloud of Rebound, a grade 8 student came up after and said: “When you read Mr. Cheney, I actually feel like I am in the story in class with all the characters in the book.” 🙌🏻

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We used “Tax Collector” today as our Thinking Task for Math! It was also our first day of randomized groups so there was a lot of excitement to get started, but was a big success 😊 Ss had a great time working out their math muscles and our 15 minute task stretched to 30!

We played Spelling Bee New York Times Games today as a warm up activity and it was great! I often make up my own letters and let students play on the Wipebook’s, but today we used whiteboards and worked in table groups. We enjoyed it!

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This is always an excellent warmup activity for a language class Use the Thinking Classroom framework Provide Random letters Make as many words as possible Find the word the scrambled words make Then, we “take it up” by using various metrics.

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To synthesize and organize some of the information from our Sir John movie, I introduced my grade 8s to the Frayer model. We used it to extract and highlight key details while using our Thinking Classroom framework. I wrapped this up with a Kahoot to gamify the learning.

I always try and love it when I can attach an activity that helps keep readers engaged and demonstrating their learning We are making Drake-inspired memes to highlight the dynamics between the main characters, Sean and David, from the book Rebound 🙌🏻

Our Math-Empathy Maps are starting to come in, and they are so lovely & helpful for me as a teacher! Students felt comfortable telling me what their needs are in the math learning space, and what they hope their actions will be to get to a successful place. Beautiful! ❤️🙌🏽

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