Megan Loewen

Rainy Days #CampSail @GEDSB ✨Pre-Continuum Math Practice + Estimation ✨One-to-One Correspondence + Stable Order Counting ✨ Blanket Fort Building with Friends + Movie + Popcorn 🎥 🍿 @MsBrownCDA

Week 2 | Day 2 #CampSail Learning Highlights ✨ Morning Parent and Child Activity ✨Lawson Math | Missing Part Activity (45 + _ = 52) ✨ Self Regulation | Inside Out Feelings Game ✨ Phonics | Reading and Drawing Digraphs at the Word Level @GEDSB @MsBrownCDA

Camp Sail goes to #BigBoxPizzaParis We had so much fun making and of course eating pizza! 🍕 Thank you Big Box Pizza for your generous donation and community partnership @MsBrownCDA @GEDSB

“I’m going to tell my mom that I had the best day of my life” - Camper on Day 3 of #CampSail @GEDSB

Finished off the school year with a movie, ice cream and popcorn! Have a wonderful summer break ❤️@GEDSB

My daughter is 2 and a half. She can now tell you most short vowel sounds and consonant sounds reliably. She learned this entirely through songs. I couldn’t have taught without music. She’s not engaged yet, without the songs. She cannot do any PA drills. I think it shows you can teach phonics before phonemic awareness. We don’t have to look at literacy skills as purely a step ladder. They can be taught both synergistically and in isolation.

The books have arrived! I’m so proud of this collaboration with the Eric Carle organization—decodable books illustrated by one of our great children’s book artists.

We loved coding our own jumping games on @scratch in #Grade2 I love how each group put their own spin on the game and you can see their unique personality and interest. Best part was getting to play each other’s games after! @GEDSB

Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… "The best-fitting direction-of-causation model showed that skills impacted enjoyment, while the influence in the other direction was zero."

78% of incarcerated people are illiterate. Sometimes I worry that focusing too much on literacy achievement might take some of the joys out of school. And then I remember the devastating consequences of failing kids. nces.ed.gov/pubs2007/20074…

We used mini LCD writing boards this morning for our UFLI phonics and then 2 students shared their #passionproject PowerPoints with the class! @GEDSB #studentdrivenlearning

Spontaneous Student Wondering: “Each book has about 225 pages… I read all three books… so I wonder how many pages I read?” 💭 We skip counted by 200s, then by 25s and discovered he read about 675 pages!! @GEDSB #grade2 #math #GEMAAP

Students loved using continent-cookie-cutters to make play-doh maps! 🗺️ #grade2 #socialstudies #GlobalCommunities @GEDSB

During the independent reading rotation, I have the most amazing conversations… “Look Mrs. Loewen! I found <igh> in the story!” #phonicscanbefun @GEDSB

When independent reading becomes an opportunity to explore maps together! 🗺️ #socialstudies #inquiry #globalcommunities @GEDSB #grade2

425,000 students in Gr. 1-3 were tested for decoding, vocabulary & comprehension. What % had decoding & vocabulary skills, but not comprehension? 1% A “comprehension issue” might not always be what we think it is. (Thanks for this tidbit in Reading For Life @lifelonglit!)

Today we learned about Harry Jerome, a world-record-setting Black Canadian Track Star who ran the 100m race in less than 10 seconds!! After learning about him, we decided to go outside; we measured 100m to see how far we could run in just 10 seconds. @GEDSB #grade2

We love playing Lawson Math Games in our grade 2 class! @GEDSB

🔥 Hot off the press 🔥 @ONlit_social’s “Reconsidering Reading Levels” resource: why they should be reconsidered & the who, what, when & how of different purposes for assessment: screening, diagnostic, progress monitoring, & outcome evaluation. onlit.org/reconsidering-…

Kids take home a 2 pocket folder. One side is for decodable type work that has been worked on in class (code pack, UFLI reading package, sentence strip, etc) so they can read independently and the other side is for a ‘home reading’ book that we asked families to read together. 3