Ms. J. Smith (She/Her)

This is so true. The rich lessons and conversations that are led by students in my classroom are amazing. They just need a safe space and the given opportunity to share.

Great learning happening in 8A this morning. @rjlee_ps

Some of my grade 8s. I love how involved they were in celebrating Halloween! Such great teens!

Yes!

Another year, another pun...this year I am ENCOURAGE-MINT. 😁

Team awesome...the intermediate team @rjlee_ps celebrating Halloween @MsChan905 @Ms_Misic, Mrs. Jatana, Mr. T and I.

I highly enjoyed watching @rjlee_ps Islamic and Hispanic virtual community night. I learned so many new things. Thank you to all the staff and students involved in this event. You did a wonderful job!

Happy Principal Appreciation Day to @rjlee_ps's supportive admin. Same to all the admin I have had that privilege of working with. I appreciate you all.

Collaborative math with 8A @rjlee_ps. We worked as a team to find the answers 1-20 using 4 4s and various operations and brackets. Great review of exponents, square roots and the order of operations.

Today 8A @rjlee_ps did an awesome job co-constructing definitions to support our read aloud, "This Book is Anti-racist". They also worked on listing parts of their identities to work towards the making of personal mind maps.

Math puzzles and growth mindset statements from this past week with 8A. Looking forward to trying some of @joboaler's inspirational math tasks with my students next week!

Some of 8A @rjlee_ps finished up their work early and wanted to help so I offered them to add borders to the bulletin boards. In all my years of teaching, my boards have never been so creative...apples falling from the sky and a beautiful winter night in a forest. So creative!

Joined Gr 7-9 educators virtually today to learn about using CoSpaces with my students at #teachercon2021. It's like a mix of Scratch and Tinkercad and the basic level is free to use. I already have a couple of possible ideas to use with my class this year.

Another year, with another amazing group of grade 8s, has come to an end. I will miss this group so much. They are such caring, fun and positive teenagers. I wish them all the best in grade 9 and beyond. #goodbyesarehard @rjlee_ps

I asked my 8s to make memes to summarize the positives and negative of online learning and they did not disappoint. Lol

An update...Minecraft is really fun! Some of my students made amazing sustainable cities using it. I attached a video clip of one. To be honest, through them I got pretty hooked onto building worlds in Minecraft as well.

It's been a year. This is a reminder I needed. I hope it helps you if you need it too. Not just for teachers, but all educators.

I followed through with the Tweet below. This week and next my students are spending time designing and building sustainable cities for Geography and many of them are using Minecraft Education Edition. So much excitement! Cool teacher points. 😎😁

I'm thankful for the opportunity to learn about Smart Learning Suite Online this past week. It helps make lessons engaging and accessible. I'm planning a few lessons to do with my 8s over the next few weeks with it.

Amazing!!! Congratulations to you and your class! @rjlee_ps proud!