Today during my Grade 5 EAL class, I decided to trial a new (free!) online visible thinking tool called ‘Mural.ly‘. Its claim is that it is ‘Google Docs for Visual People‘, which couldn’t better define myself or my EAL learners. Using Mural.ly with Beginner EAL students: Tuning-in to UOI vocabulary Students are able to upload…
Tuning In We have launched full force into week 1 of our PYP Exhibition! Students have published their e-Dictionaries (see: writing process of e-Dictionaries) to our school’s e-Library (Write Now 1000 Blog) and are using the defined terms as a resource for their tuning-in activities. Inquire into Simple Machines To foster an inclusive environment, the…
Grade 5 students are wrapping up their e-dictionaries this week! In preparation for Exhibition, students reviewed the project requirements on the blog and chose from over 15 new words to learn. They prepared posters on Comic life or Keynote that defined the new terminology on Simple Machines. Students chose their top 5 and are in…
For our current UOI on Role-Models, Grade 5 is focusing on Writing to Recount with specific focus on biographies. Students inquired into the text features of a biography in three rotations: 1) Reading biographical books 2) Looking at biographies online through http://www.duckster.com/biographies 3) Listening to biographical stories on http://www.brainpop.com EAL students went further with…
Innovative Learning 