While the students of Radisson School were enjoying a day off from school on Friday (lucky!), my colleagues and I were having a PD (professional development) day. In the morning, our Resource teacher, Mrs. Sokoloff, lead a session that, amongst other things, dealt with different tools we could use in our classrooms to make them a calmer place (which will, in turn, provide all of our students be more successful as learners). One of these tools was called MeMoves. MeMoves is a DVD in which the students perform a series of movements, mimicking those shown on the screen. The movements are set to soft music, and can be used to promote 'Joy', 'Calm', or 'Focus'. Today, began using MeMoves. The students really loved it! We went through some of the 'Calm' movements after morning recess, and had a great transition into our Writers' Workshop time! We are borrowing the DVD for the week and trying it out with our students, to see how well it works. I am excited to continue experimenting with it, to see the effect is has on our transitions! If you're interested in what MeMoves is, you can check it out here:
http://www.thinkingmoves.com/
As a side note, I was not in the classroom this afternoon, as I was required to attend a Workplace Safety and Health meeting. "How did he get his blog post in?", you are probably wondering. Well, I was able to do so from my iPhone, using the Blogger app for iPhone - I love technology!!
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Hi Room 18! It's Taylor! I hope everybody had a good Christmas and concert. It felt wierd not being at Radisson for our concert. Our concert was a "Chudley Brown Christmas(the name of our principle, Mrs. Chudley Brown)We got to sing and act out a Charlie Brown Christmas. It was very fun, and they drew names from the students to win Teddies afterwards. I'm doing good at my new school, but still really miss you guys so much. There is a science fair coming up at Burntwood school and me and my friend Madison are partners. We are showing people which lego's float and which don't. I joined choir, and get gym every second day. Right now it is Winterfest in Thompson and on Friday we went to a big bonfire, and fireworks. It was fun, because we got to watch the fireworks with alot of my classmates from a big toboggan hill. We have tons of snow in Thompson and go tobogganing all the time! I sure hope you are all doing good, and I want to wish you all a good Valentines Day! Miss you all!!! Taylor xoxo
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