It was so much fun hosting Millie this month. The kids enjoyed taking Millie to each of their special classes and showing her all the different things they do in a day. Millie experienced math and literacy stations, PE, music, library, Spanish, silent reading, writer’s workshop, and much, much more!…
Our Kindergarten classes here at Balmoral Hall School in Winnipeg, have had a blast with Bearthoven these past two weeks. He arrived on a beautiful crisp fall day, just in time for Thanksgiving dinner, where he enjoyed turkey and all the trimmings with our boarding students. After the holiday, he…
Jessie is learning a lot with us, at Mercedes-Benz International School in Pune, India. On Wednesday 12th of October, the Preschool 3 class played a game called “Breakout EDU” for the first time. Just like their traveling Teddy “Jessie”, they had to be risk-takers, thinkers and communicators to play this…
Using writing workshop to draw on the experience of having Millie with us at the beginning of the year when many students are learning to use words to express themselves, and working on fine motor skills with a focus on using details to elaborate our illustrations. We used Educreations to…
Millie went off the see her new friends in the U.S. We had a short mindfulness session before she left, to calm her down before her hectic journey ahead. We hope she is having fun in her new place and will share this practice with others too! Not easy!
Millie arrived in Deerfield, IL today! We took time looking at all of the photos that the kids in Taipei, Taiwan sent along with Millie and we discussed what is the same about their classroom and ours. We discovered that we have many similar things including our calendar and rug.…
1R students dance a choreographed routine every day. In September, we danced to the song, Car Wash. On our Bear Share Day (a day when we brought in our stuffed animals to meet Bearthoven), the children did their dance with their animals and Bearthoven right up front! He really enjoyed it. Check…
Bearthoven got to meet our principal, Dr. Brown! He learned that she helps all the teachers and students every day to teach and learn. That is an important job. Because our school is very large, there are also two Vice Principals to help. Bearthoven enjoyed finding out how our school…
