{"id":25,"date":"2017-05-02T04:30:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T04:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/?p=25"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:23:01","slug":"welcome-to-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/welcome-to-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to my blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! Welcome to my blog! I look forward to using this space to document the <strong>collaborative<\/strong> learning journeys of myself and my students. I feel so fortunate to have been given the opportunity to teach in Burnaby, the community that I have always called home and where I now am lucky to be raising my two daughters.<\/p>\n<p>As a<strong> reflective<\/strong> and responsive <strong>educator<\/strong>, I hold a strong image of my young learners as being competent and curious individuals, who must be given the opportunity to participate in the dialogue of their own &#8220;learning conversation.&#8221; I believe that <strong>students<\/strong> are complex and<strong> unique<\/strong>, each carrying their own experiences, skills, interests, wonderings, and worries alongside their day to day life. Students need to understand and believe that they hold a place of <strong>value<\/strong> in their <strong>community<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Allow us to tell you what we are thinking or feeling. Whether our voices are big or small; whether we whisper or shout it, or paint, draw, mime or sign it-listen to us and hear what we say.&#8221; <em>(Right No. 13 from For Every Chid, The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in words and pictures, text adapted by Caroline Castle.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by these words, I look to find ways to make learning an <strong>engaging<\/strong> and <strong>joyful<\/strong> experience for the community of learners that join me in the classroom each day.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for taking some time to join us on our learning journey!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Allanson<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6151\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_1001-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_1001-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_1001-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_1001-750x563.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_1001.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! Welcome to my blog! I look forward to using this space to document the collaborative learning journeys of myself and my students. I feel so fortunate to have been given the opportunity to teach in Burnaby, the community that I have always called home and where I now am lucky to be raising my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6152,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/6152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/allansond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}