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Grade 1 October Newsletter

For this assignment, I created a Grade 1 October Newsletter that would be sent home to parents. The goal was to explain how I plan to use an aesthetic approach in my classroom, meaning how I will bring creativity, arts, and hands-on experiences into student learning.

In my newsletter, I shared with parents the different projects and themes the students will be working on in October. I explained how I will be combining the Arts Strands — like music, drama, dance, and visual art — into several subject areas, including Language Arts, Math, and Treaty Education, as well as other areas of learning. For example, students might explore patterns in Math through visual art, express their understanding of stories in Language Arts through drama, or learn about respect and community in Treaty Education using music or art projects.

The newsletter was written in a parent-friendly, welcoming way and included important information such as classroom activities, special events, and reminders for the month. I made sure it was both creative and informative, using fun visuals and clear language to help parents feel connected and involved in what their child is learning.

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Goal Setting Children’s Book

For our health education assignment, we created a children’s book all about goal setting! The story helps students understand what goals are, how to make a plan, and how to keep trying even when things get tricky. After reading the book together as a class, students will take part in a fun follow-up activity where they get to set their own personal goal and illustrate it. This helps them practice making positive choices and builds their confidence in reaching their goals.

Please click The Dream Cafe link to access my story!

The Dream Cafe

Follow Up Activity

1. Story Discussion (10 minutes)
Begin with a guided discussion about The Dream Cafe story:
– What was Lauren’s goal?
– Did she get it right the first time? What did she do when things got hard?
– What helped her keep trying?
– What is something you want to get better at?

2. Create Your Own Goal Cake (20 minutes) (see hyperlink for handout)
Each student will be given a paper handout of a cupcake, cake, or lantern. Students may
choose. These paper templates will be divided into layers or ingredients. Students will
then:
– Write or draw their personal goal in the center of their cake/cupcake/lantern

– Choose 3-4 positive “ingredients” that will help them reach their goal (e.g.,
patience, asking for help, second tries, focus, bravery, kindness)
–  Add 1-2 “secret sprinkles” like courage or creativity as a finishing touch

3. Classroom “Dream Cafe” Gallery Walk (10 minutes)

Students will have their Goal cakes on a classroom bulletin board designed to look like
The Dream Cafe. (Optional: Play soft, magical music and turn a couple of lights down to
make it feel magical.)
Students will take turns walking through the Dream Cafe, silently reading each other’s
goals, and writing kind affirmations on sticky notes to place beside peers’ goals:
– “I’d love to try that too.”
– “That’s a great goal.”
– “You’ll do amazing.”

4. (Optional Extension) Goal cake Check-Ins
Over the coming week (2 weeks), offer moments for students to check on their Goal cake.
They can add stars, sprinkles, or drawings to show how they’re progressing, especially
when they’ve made a mistake and try again. This will reinforce the idea that success is
built through setbacks and support

Grade 2 Unit Plan On Respect

For this course, we created a health unit plan based on the grade and outcome of our choice. I decided to choose Grade 2, as K-2 is my ideal future students. As well, for the unit plan, I chose USC2.4: Understand what “respect” means and find ways to show it to yourself, others, living things, belongings, and the environment. With this unit plan, I chose 12 indicators to teach, one being from the Treaty Education outcomes.

Please check out my Unit Plan on Canva here:

Unit Plan 

Strength-based Interactive Bulletin Board

In this course, we were asked to design a bulletin board you can use in your classroom as a way to introduce your students to the approach to expectations, beliefs, and student conduct. My bulletin board was targeted towards Grade 2 students who had 4 tasks:

1.  A values-based task for students to examine their own beliefs
2. A connection to identity and self-worth
3. A task that honours diversity and inclusiveness in the classroom and exemplifies the student conduct you want to see in your classes
4. An inspiring connection to a source to view and complete a task (podcast, video, ted talk, book, etc)

Here is my bulletin board: 

Classroom Vision Board

In my ECE 325 class, an assignment we completed was creating our very own classroom vision board, in which we were creating our yearly plan. In my case, this was Grade One. Our classroom design needed to include opportunities for reflecting on experimental learning.

Please click the link to my Canva presentation to view my classroom vision board:

Classroom Vision Board

Year Plan

Another assignment in ECE 325 was creating a year plan for our dream grade we would love to teach. I decided to create a year plan for Grade One. We were required to have outcomes that would be explored each month. Outcomes from English Language Arts,
Math, Social Studies, Science, Health, Arts Education, Physical Education, and Treaty
Education must be included.

Here is the Screen recording for my Grade One Year Plan:

Letter of Intent

In ECE 325, our first assignment was to create a letter of intent to families for the first day of school. The letter of intent included my view of children as learners and my reflection of understanding of the image of a child. As well as my belief around play and play-based pedagogy and the role that stories will play in my classroom.

Please view the following link to a Google document of my letter of intent:

Letter of Intent