Today we have another session with our World War II veterans, as part of our Lest We Forget series. Today’s session was extra poignant, because we lost one of our usual panelists last week. These moments with our World War II veterans are precious and treasured by teachers and students alike. After reading Ashton’s blog [...]
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Today we have the last session in a series of Geography I Spy programs. We copied this idea from Paul Hieronymous. Paul even VCed with us to help us get this program going. Kevin starts the session zooming in on our location and the school location to get the students familiar with Google Earth. For [...]
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We’re lucky enough to have four classes from Mars Elementary included in Region 12′s Holiday Extravaganza, Singing with Rudolph program yesterday and today. They are all kindergarten classes and they loved it! Rudolph starts out asking the kids to show their antlers and to laugh like a reindeer. This breaks the VC ice and gets [...]
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This afternoon Eagle Lake Elementary is connected to the Indianapolis Zoo for “The Mitten” program. We had a few little glitches with this program. The zoo had a fire, and some of the animals for this program were injured, so this program has been adapted to the book The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett [...]
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Today Moccasin Elementary is connecting to Northern Michigan University for their Lumberjack Life program. The program started with a lumberjack song for the students to listen to. During the program the students saw many pictures showing how the lumberjacks worked, what they ate, what machines they used, and more. Students learned about several different type [...]
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This morning we have several local 5th grade classes connected to John Proos, one of our local state representatives. The teachers and students have prepared questions ahead of time, particularly to bring out answers related to what they are studying. We were able to get 25 questions into the hour session. Here is a sampling [...]
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