{"id":1945,"date":"2016-09-28T16:45:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T23:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2016-09-28T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T23:45:32","slug":"we-love-games-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/2016\/09\/28\/we-love-games-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"We Love Games &#038; Choices!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each day we devote a chunk\u00a0of time to &#8220;games &amp; choices&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We start with a sharing circle, where a few students\u00a0take turns sharing their\u00a0plans for the upcoming session. This is an excellent\u00a0way to develop our ability to tell a story.<\/p>\n<p>Some things we might include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where am I working today?<\/li>\n<li>Who am I working with?<\/li>\n<li>What will I do there?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After our &#8216;story&#8217; is told, we have an opportunity to choose 3 classmates for &#8220;questions or comments&#8221;. \u00a0 (As an audience we must concentrate on our speaker so that our questions and comments make sense..)<\/p>\n<p>Then we head off to explore our invitations for learning. \u00a0This is a great time for us to practice our <strong>R.O.C.K.S.<\/strong> rules. \u00a0As our session ends, we clean up our own areas <strong>(Ownership)\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0we work together <strong>(Cooperation)\u00a0<\/strong> to make sure our whole classroom is neat and tidy by helping others <strong>(Kindness).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We end with another sharing circle&#8230;this time a few students share what they learned\/did during games and choices&#8211;again having 3 classmates share questions and comments at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few pictures of our time together&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[metaslider id=1947]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each day we devote a chunk\u00a0of time to &#8220;games &amp; choices&#8221;. We start with a sharing circle, where a few students\u00a0take turns sharing their\u00a0plans for the upcoming session. This is an excellent\u00a0way to develop our ability to tell a story. Some things we might include: Where am I working today? Who am I working with? &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/2016\/09\/28\/we-love-games-choices\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3048,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3048"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}