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This is my school!

Posted on by ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΚΑΡΑΛΑΚΟΣ

Younger kids are highly enthusiastic when asked to produce. This is a plain fact. I’ve always said: “Ask little of the kids, they’ll bring you less. Ask a lot and they’ll blow you away!” And my little critters have proven me right time and again. This is the first time my 4th graders were asked to produce text. It was in the form of a decorated poster, but little did they realize that while trying to win a “Top Artist” badge, they were actually putting everything we learnt in Unit 1 to good use. They mostly did an amazing job, and the most amazing was that I even got a poster from a student who has learnt precious little. I can’t even begin to imagine how much effort she put into this. They don’t look like much, but I’m infinitely proud of my little ones and their first attempt! Enjoy!

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A summer’s day – 3rd grade

Posted on by ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΚΑΡΑΛΑΚΟΣ

 

You can never know what will happen when you ask your students to do the simplest thing. This wasn’t supposed to be anything noteworthy. It was just a way to recap the unit and express visually what we have learnt about seasons and the weather.

 

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But… when they came back with these, it was impossible for me to let them go. I cut them, scanned them and here they are. This is just the simplest way of presenting them, but they can be used in a great variety of ways. As background images for a song (we’re actually planning to do a cover of The Season Song by Pancake Manor), as artwork in a collage or a poetry collection with student’s poems about the summer, and many many more ideas that we always have and never get to realize!

Anyway, I deemed them too beautiful to be wasted in a workbook. I hope you enjoy them.