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By Erin Malkoske, November 3, 2011 10:12 pm

Registration for MAME’s winter PD sessions opens on Saturday, November 5!

 To register for our January 17, 2012 events, click the title of the workshop:

Small Group Differentiated Reading Instruction

Warren’s Wonderful Workshop:Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades

Creating Art Through Children’s Literature

Multiage Math

 All January 17 sessions will be held at HS Paul School from 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

To register for our March 14, 2012 events, click the title of the workshop:

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks K-3 Workshop

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Grade 4 & 5 Workshop

 All March 14 sessions will be held at the Louis Riel Board Office. The K-3 workshop will run from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The grade 4 & 5 session will run from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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By Leslie Dent, October 30, 2011 6:58 pm

Manitoba Association of Multi-Age Educators Presents

Jane Felling – Box Cars & One Eyed Jacks

Registration will be open soon

Jane will share her exciting new math games in this half day workshop which includes handouts and a copy of one of her books.

Monterey Board Office – 50 Monterey

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Grade K-3 8:30 – 11:30

Grade 4-6 1:00 – 4:00

$50.00 for MAME members

$70.00 for non-members

$70.00 if you wish to become a member and attend the workshop

Box Cars products will be available for purchase

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By Leslie Dent, October 30, 2011 6:48 pm

Manitoba Association of Multi-age Educators

Is Proud to Present the Following Multi-Age Workshops

Registration will be available soon

Tuesday, January 17, 2012
4:30—6:30pm
H.S. Paul School—160 Southglen Blvd
Select one of the following four workshops:

Small Group Differentiated Reading Instruction

By: Lynn White

Join Lynn for an interactive session and learn how to plan and implement small group differentiated reading instruction in your classroom using the Beverly Tyner: Small Group Differentiated Reading Instruction model. Lynn will share strategies and tools to assist with grouping your students, planning your lessons, assessing student progress and ensuring that the rest of your students are engaged in meaningful literacy activities while you work with your small groups.

Warren’s Wonderful Workshop: Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades

By:
Lana Warren

Lana, a grade 5/6 multi-age teacher, will share her journey of developing a literacy program in her classroom that is based on “The Daily 5”. This management system helps foster independence in students allowing the teacher time to work with individual or small groups of students, to track groupings and organize assessments while teaching literacy skills to students of all ages.

Multi-Age Math

By: Charlene Sacher and Kathy Klenk

Come and hear how two multi-age teachers structure their math programs to suit their multi-level learners while incorporating
“Math Menus”, “Guided Math”, math games and centres, as well as technology. Suited for grades 1–6.

Creating Art Through Children’s Literature

By: Della Takeuchi

A half day hands-on workshop that will offer a variety of art techniques reflecting the illustration styles of popular children’s literature. Leave with ideas you can immediately apply to your early years’ multi-age classroom.

Multi-age Workshop Fees

__ $20 workshop fee for MAME members

__ $40 workshop fee for non-members

__ $40 fee if you wish to become a MAME member and attend workshop

Registration Deadline: January 10. Spaces are limited.
Pizza and beverages provided.

E-mail any questions to katherine.cullen@lrsd.net or cclark@retsd.mb.ca

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By Leslie Dent, October 17, 2011 11:36 am

This year I am teaching grade 5 and we are still enjoying the iPads and Ipods. It is incredible how independent these 9 and 10 year olds are with them. I thought grade 2 was impressive!

We have been using the iPads a lot for publishing our writing during Daily 5. Book Creator is an app I discovered recently and we like it a lot. The main difference between this publishing app and Storykit is that when a student is done with their story in Book Creator it can be exported as an iBook and is available for students to read on all our devices. Or, it can be sent by email. In Storykit there wasn’t much to do with it once it was complete.

The students that have used it so far have emailed me photos from home that I have synced onto the iPads for them to insert into their story. Alternatively, photos could be staged by the students, taken with the iPad and then inserted into the story.

The only option Book Creator is missing in my mind is the option to draw illustrations right in the app. This was a feature of Storykit that the children really liked last year. I think I will explore the idea of a doodle app to fill this void! Stay tuned!

A student created video of how to use this app is posted on my class blog.

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By Leslie Dent, August 30, 2011 9:17 am

The Special Area Groups of Educators Conference is coming up on October 21, 2011. MAME has a great lineup of sessions for this year including Lori Jamison (Rog).

Sessions MA101 – MA208 will be held at HS Paul School, 160 Southglen Blvd. Off-site sessions MA301 – MA402 will be held at Bird’s Hill School, 3950 Raleigh St, East St. Paul.

To register for MAME sessions, please visit our registration page.

For details on all our sessions, please refer to the MTS SAGE Program.

Sessions for SAGE 2011 include:

MA-101 Write for the Start: Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Beginning Writing, K-3

MA-102 Small Group Differentiated Reading Instruction

MA-103 Multi-Age Math

MA-104 Math Scrapbooks

MA-105 The Learning Carpet: “Back to Square One” 101 Ways to Use the Learning Carpet

MA-106 Mimio in the Early Years – Beginners

MA-107 Learning to Use the Mimio Software in the Middle Years

MA-108 Creating Art Through Children’s Literature

MA-109 Working With Clay

MA-110 Games, Brain Teasers and Energizers

MA-201 Write On! Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Writing in Grades 4-8

MA-202 Small Group Differentiated Reading Instruction

MA-203 Multi-Age Math

MA-204 The Learning Carpet: “Back to Square One” 101 Ways to Use the Learning Carpet

MA-205 Mimio in the Early Years – Advanced

MA-206 Creating Art Through Children’s Literature

MA-207 Working With Clay

MA-208 Games, Brain Teasers and Energizers

Off-Site Location (Bird’s Hill School):

MA-301 A Window to the World: Blogging in the Classroom

MA-302 SmartBoard/Notebook Software Beginner Skills

MA-401Free Web Tools for Classrooms

MA-402 SmartBoard/Notebook Software Intermediate to Advanced Skills

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By Leslie Dent, July 6, 2011 6:20 pm

As I continue to wrap up things from grade 2, I thought I would post our Phosters that were created by students at school. This is another easy to use app that the children used independently after one demo. Select a template, add your image, change the text and presto, a phoster!

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By Leslie Dent, June 16, 2011 12:31 pm

We explore many ways to publish our writing in grade 2. A few students are working with Storykit, an app available at the app store. They write and edit  their story in their writers notebook and then move to an iPad to publish it. Text is typed in and then illustrations can be drawn write in the app or a photo can be used. Once the story is complete, it is shared online and can be emailed. My students are highly motivated to publish their writing using Storykit.

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By Leslie Dent, June 10, 2011 2:39 pm

This weeks app of the week on iTunes is WordFoto. I heard of it through a fellow educator on Twitter just last week! One of our classmates is moving to B.C. today so I just tried it out and made a “we will miss you” WordFoto for her.

To create your WordFoto you simply pick a photo from your library or take a photo, choose the words you want to apply and presto! A very cool mash-up of words and an image. There are even different styles to pick from. It took a matter of minutes!

Here is another sample using one of our butterflies just before it was released into the real world.

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By Leslie Dent, June 10, 2011 12:01 pm

We took advantage of the mobility of our iClassroom and took our learning outside. We had caterpillars in our classroom and wanted to do some refelcting about what we had learned so far about caterpillars and what we were still wondering about.

First, the children wrote in their writer’s notebooks using a T-chart. When their thoughts were clear they video recorded their “knows” and “wonders” using the iPods and iPads. Each iPod and iPad comes with a still and video camera and records HD video.

Once all the recordings were synced to each device, students (grade 2) were able to use the iMovie app to put the clips together into a movie!

Note: all photos have been taken and processed with my iPhone using the instagram app.

-Leslie Dent Scarcello

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By Charlene, June 9, 2011 7:29 pm

We have lots of new books available for loan over the summer. If you click on the “Bookshelf” tag you will see all of the great resources that are available to our members.

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By Leslie Dent, June 9, 2011 12:53 pm

Thanks to the Manitoba Association of Multiage Educators (MAME), my students will be participating in an iPods and iPads in the Classroom Project. These tools will be incorporated into our daily learning activities and will help create information and communication technology (ICT) rich learning and teaching opportunities. I will be blogging about our learning experiences with the iPods and iPads here and the students and myself will also blog about our experiences on our classroom blog at www.missdentsclass.blogspot.com.

In a classroom with devices such as iPods and iPads, contemporary methods of learning can be optimized. Through the use of these devices and some apps, students can be supported to:

• Use video clips, audio clips, and photos for gathering info
• Take video and photos; create slideshows using iPhoto and edit video using iMovie
• Record readings using Voicememo to track progress; engage in collaborative story telling, and record audiobooks for others to listen to
• Create original music
• Listen to and/or read ebooks, audiobooks, and Tumblebooks to go with the Belkin Rockstar
• Create books from scratch using Storybooks
• Brainstorm webs, mind maps, idea cards and organize, manage and summarize information.
• Use Puppetpals to write, create, publish puppet shows
• Illustrate stories with drawing pads
• Use the calculator
• Use Math board to practice math facts
• Gather data and statistical analysis using Polldaddy
• Use the Notepad for reflection, self-assessment, brainstorming, and publishing

Please stay tuned to the MAME blog as well as  www.missdentsclass.blogspot.com to read updates on what we’ve learned and experienced. Posts related to this project will be tagged iClassroom, click iClassroom in the tag cloud to see our posts.

- Leslie Dent Scarcello

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By Leslie Dent, June 2, 2011 4:31 pm

This year my grade 2 classroom was opened to a whole new world of living things. We have grown our own butterflies which is always fantastic to experience, but through the world of live streaming we were able to share this and have also experienced so much more! We got started by live streaming our chrysalises so that we could watch them from home. Aside from a few technical difficulties it was awesome! Check out the set-up we had.

Primarily in North America, we have been invited into classrooms as they stream their experiences of eggs hatching, butterflies emerging as well as the live nests of eagles and falcons. Here are a few links to get you started:

• Mrs. Malkoske’s Creepy Crawly Classroom has Painted Lady Butterflies
• Mrs. Cassidy’s Egg Stream has pheasants during school hours
• Mrs. Poulin’s Kindergarten Class has ducklings
• The Decorah Eagles live from their nest in Decorah, Iowa
• The Peregrine Falcons nesting on the Radisson Hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

If the channel you click on is offline when you try, check back later.

You can also check out the butterfly journey my class enjoyed this year as we journaled our observations on our butterfly blog page.

Are you streaming something we could also check out? Leave us a comment with your link.

-Leslie Dent Scarcello

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By Charlene, May 22, 2011 9:21 pm

Westphal, Laurie. Differentiating Instruction with Math Menus. Waco, TX: Prufrock Press, 2007.

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By Charlene, May 22, 2011 9:16 pm

Tyner, Beverly. Small Group Reading Instruction: A Differentiated Teaching Model for Intermediate Readers, Grade 3-8. Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 2005.

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By Charlene, May 22, 2011 9:12 pm

Tyner, Beverly. Small Group Reading Instruction: A Differentiated Teaching Model for Beginning and Struggling Readers 2^nd Edition. Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 2009.

The disc is fantastic! There are such great resources on it and makes planning for your small group reading groups a lot more efficient.

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By Charlene, May 22, 2011 8:52 pm

Southall, Margo. Differentiated Literacy Centers K-3. Toronto, ON: Teaching Resources, 2007.

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By Charlene, May 22, 2011 8:42 pm

Ostrow, Jill. A Room with a Different View

LOVE this one! It is all about building a community in your class while doing hands-on learning. Students have the curriculum come alive.

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By Charlene, May 22, 2011 8:35 pm

Jamison Rog, Lori. Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Beginning Writing 4-6

I cannot wait to see her this year at SAG!

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By Charlene, May 22, 2011 8:30 pm

Heacox, Diane. Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom: How to Reach and Teach All Learners, Grades 3-12

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By Charlene, May 22, 2011 5:32 pm

Denton, Paula. The Power of our Words

 A great resource that will really challenge you as a teacher to become a more effective communicator.