On Friday, we got together and simulated some of the social fun we might have enjoyed if we were together physically with an online scavenger hunt contest. It was hardly a substitute for the real thing, but the effort felt worthwhile. Last week would have been the time when, after working hard and saving all […]
Author: Diane Webber
Back in the Saddle…or Something
In early March, the group got together to list topics for our next blog post. While published as a single post, each child chooses a topic from a group-generated list of “what’s been happening,” be that in our classroom, in specialists, or around campus. We always create a longer list than we have young people […]
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Welcome Back! by Tessa The Welcome Back Breakfast is greatly looked forward to in the 5/6 classes. The Welcome Back Breakfast is a meal to welcome back the children and adults in the 5/6 as they return from all the festivities and excitement of winter break. This year it happened on January 6th, 2020. This […]
No Good Options
We have been reading Alan Gratz’s Refugee (Scholastic, 2017) together since mid-November, and expect it to wrap up this month. There are days we read and then I shut the book for a moment to discuss both the details of the story and the history behind it, and there are days I shut the book […]
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Writing Our Blog by Jasper Blog writing is a process of writing/typing what we do on a mostly daily basis. We make a blog so that people reading it can understand what goes on in our classroom. In all of Miquon, it is only the kids in our classroom doing this. We do a lot […]
The Power of Partnership
Partnership is a key ingredient of what distinguishes life at Miquon from many other schools. One central partner relationship is between families and teachers. Another is between teaching partners within classrooms and across grade band teams. Classroom teachers and specialists partner around curriculum year-round and during conference weeks especially. The partnership I am focusing on […]
We’re Baaack…
…as of this past Wednesday, September 4th! We are happy to see one another, to get to the work of creating our new systems (and adjusting them later, as necessary), and to begin imagining what the year holds in store for all of us. Taking a first day of school group picture has become a […]
The Big Trip of Spring, 2019!
The big trip is a trip toward the end of the year that the 5th/6th pay for with the pizza money we made throughout the year. Instead of adults planning the big trip, the kids plan it! The group makes agreements on where to go and then we break into planning groups. Our groups were: where […]
Why Teach About Colonization and Decolonization?
by Sarah Yanuck June, 2019 One day when I was in high school, I stood by the photocopier with my advisor, Jamie. I may have been working as his teacher’s assistant at the time, or maybe I was just hanging around while he prepared for the following day’s classes. As we stood there, I lamented […]
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Pollyanna by Kemper Pollyanna is a gift exchange that takes place right before winter break. it is a tradition to celebrate it in Diane and Sarah’s ⅚ class. This is how Pollyanna works: everybody picks a name out of a hat and they can not tell anybody that name. (That person is their Pollyanna.) We […]