We're about to start one of my favourite books, Patricia Polacco's "Mr. Lincon's Way".
With the "grand conversations" I've been facilitating in my classroom since the arrival of the Smart Board this year, I'm more inspired than ever, especially since I just got invited to present a session on engaging students in conversations about Social Justice and Equity issues in the classroom at this year's CONTACT conference, in Charlottetown PEI!
In addition to my old favourites, I dug up a few new questions and activities online, thanks largely to these two websites: Patricia Polacco and Teaching Kids Philosophy. I've said it before, and I'll say it again -- picture books are not just for primary students! The series of lessons I've prepared below will be a stretch for many of my Grade 3s... but I am confident in the abilities some have developed this year, and I hope they will pull along the others in one of our grandest conversations yet!!!
With the "grand conversations" I've been facilitating in my classroom since the arrival of the Smart Board this year, I'm more inspired than ever, especially since I just got invited to present a session on engaging students in conversations about Social Justice and Equity issues in the classroom at this year's CONTACT conference, in Charlottetown PEI!
In addition to my old favourites, I dug up a few new questions and activities online, thanks largely to these two websites: Patricia Polacco and Teaching Kids Philosophy. I've said it before, and I'll say it again -- picture books are not just for primary students! The series of lessons I've prepared below will be a stretch for many of my Grade 3s... but I am confident in the abilities some have developed this year, and I hope they will pull along the others in one of our grandest conversations yet!!!
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