At the beginning of this school year, I was given the opportunity to join a Professional Learning Community of my choice. I decided to join my colleagues at Forest Green and Stony Plain Central in “The Daily 5” PLC. For those unfamiliar, “The Daily 5” is a structure that helps to develop the daily habits [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Forest Green School'
Day 154: Linda Trippel, Teacher (Forest Green School)
May 14th, 2013 · 6 Comments · Early Years, Parkland Staff
Day 146: Dana Irvine, Teacher (Forest Green School)
May 2nd, 2013 · 2 Comments · Parkland Staff
Over the month of April my class and I have been doing yoga for Phys. Ed. It has been much more fun than I expected, and as I was pleasantly surprised to find out, a lot more enjoyable than the boys in my class had expected as well! I borrowed DVDs and we did a [...]
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Day 141: Debbie Rutland, Teacher (CFL)
April 25th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Parkland Staff
Never underestimate the power of role modelling! Kids pick up much of what adults do. This certainly is true within the classroom setting and Noah, one of my grade two students, showed this as he presented a story on the Smart Board. Noah attends the Stony Creek Program, an alternative education program of choice, at [...]
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Day 137: Faith and Braeden, Students (Forest Green School)
April 19th, 2013 · No Comments · Middle Years
What we learned today … Today three Edmonton Eskimos visited our Forest Green School. They taught us that school is really important and to put first things first. They taught us that you should pay attention in school so you can get good grades, and go to a good college or university. We learned that [...]
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Day 83: Daniel, Student (Forest Green School)
January 17th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Early Years
Today I Learned…. In hockey my team-mates and my coaches taught me to win with class and lose with class. Like in tournaments don’t get too excited because it’s not like we won the Stanley Cup. And it is good not to rub it in when you win and not be a poor sport when you lose. [...]
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Day 81: Liam,Student (Forest Green School)
January 15th, 2013 · 3 Comments · Early Years
My Own Video Game When I grow up, I want to design my own video game, so, I am learning how to make one. So I downloaded a program on my computer and started to make my own video game. Though, since it is only my first one, it’s going to be very simple. For [...]
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Day 80: Emily, Student (Forest Green School)
January 14th, 2013 · No Comments · Early Years
What I learned In Social Studies… We were learning about the St. Lawrence Lowlands. It was very interesting. One thing that we learned was that during the world wars the people of the St Lawrence lowlands built these locks and a really big canal so that the people could get all of the supplies that [...]
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Day 78: Becky Wandio, Lisa Aronyk and Corre Mahan: Forest Green School
January 10th, 2013 · 3 Comments · Middle Years, Parkland Staff
Today we learned something that was probably very obvious to everyone, but something we we rarely get to practice as teachers… that is, three heads are better than one. Our school, like many others, is constantly looking for new ways to best educate students in our ever changing society. Every year our schools face numerous [...]
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Day 73: Lesley Cameron, Teacher (Forest Green School)
December 20th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Parkland Staff
When I was contacted by Ronald McDonald House Northern Alberta‘s about their Share the Warmth campaign, I knew it was something that our staff would be excited about, as I was! The campaign is about showing kindness, being a good neighbour and citizen. We showed the campaign video to our students, discussed what “Sharing the [...]
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