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Double-pronged magic!

Magic Buttercup Power!

We even found and used these beautiful

tinted oak seed pods from the park.

Today, in class, we had a try at making our Magic Nature Wands.  Kids online, you will be assigned yours on Wednesday (Wink, Wink, you can start yours ahead of time).   I wasn’t sure they would work, but the experiment was a success! These wands are filled with the new flowers of spring and are just gorgeous!

They also have great power, duh, duh, duh!  Their special power will be announced, for everyone, at Wednesday’s Zoom class – 10:30. Their power is linked to a Knights of Boo’Gar writing assignment that will also come out on Wednesday.  Online kids, please take a photo of your wand and upload it to Teams.  I want to continue to display your work.

Although I was inspired by the wands below (from: minimadthings  https://minimadthings.com/blogs/news).  I love the freshness of our examples.  We didn’t even finish today and I actually put the wands in the upstairs fridge.  Here’s hoping they still look good tomorrow.  So, don’t wait to take that photo!

All learners have a story.  Story workshop supports inspiration through play with avariety of materials.  Within play and creation, students are encouraged to develop a story and detail, consider different perspectives and develop language.  It is our hope that this process will support the children in seeing themselves as storytellers and authors.

We had been lucky to experience Story Workshop twice before the Covid Crisis. Mrs. Field, in our library, had guided the students in their use of rich materials to develop stories.  Within our theme of Castles and Dragons, I saw an opportunity for students to continue this type of learning at home.

Div. 5 did a brilliant job of using what they had to build their stories.  One of the main principals of Story Workshop is the idea of “possibilities”.  Many of the objects we used are not what they seem.  A glue stick represents a guard.  Batteries are knights.  A salt and pepper shaker is a king and queen. A pinecone can be a bear.  It is the author who assigns a role to that item.

I am so excited to read the stories that will come from these builds.  Here are some examples of the student creations:

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Stuffies and Teddies in windows?

(Mrs. Marto’s window.  I went off script and used my pigeon instead of a Teddy Bear.  I was inspired by Mrs. Devlin’s Pigeon!)

Worldwide Movement!

This information comes from Mrs. Devlin.  She told me about this new trend to bring people together and help us make connections to each other.  Here is the information she gave me.