Receiving my Bachelors of Arts Honours in Psychology!
Excited to have my undergraduate degree!
Orientation Day at uOttawa! Can't keep calm!
Touring Ottawa during our orientation.
Having fun touring downtown Ottawa.
Meeting classmates and having fun with class work.
Success is made up of things we cannot always see. Inspirational hook by Day of Discovery!
Listening to Patti Duncan talk about STEM, everywhere!
Working together to donate feminine products for St. Joe's Women's Shelter. Amazing turn out!
We created a cause (Food 4 All) and pitched it to our class members, with only 10 minutes! So much fun!
Showing my little cousin the fun behind science experiments! Explored how some substances change their properties depending on the pressure exerted.
Real-world learning: constructing a building out of Christmas chocolates.
Practicing her fine motor skills.
Our class was fortunate to visit Parkdale Food Centre and listen to Karen Secord share her message with us. Incredibly inspiring.
Inquiry-based learning with my little cousin. We drew a map of North America and planned our future road-trip!
Learning real-world science from watering plants!
So much exploring done at MacSkimming Outdoor Education Centre. Week 1 at practicum!
We had a Valentines Day party with the best cookies ever!
Students have so much fun at this new Boggle centre we set up together!
Having fun learning letter sounds!
Teaching kindness and why it is important to be kind through the story Chrystanthemum.
Students thought about what makes a friend a 'good' friend.
Writing letters with my little cousin to our family. Learning about different types of texts.
Hands-on math learning on a Sunday afternoon!
I decorated our classroom to celebrate what would have been my Grandfather's 97th birthday.
Teaching students about the island my Grandfather and ancestors come from: São Miguel, Portugal.
Showing students some images of what São Miguel island looks like. Students made many comparisons were made between this island and what we have in Ottawa!
Floral art created by students. I was blown away!
This is a portrait of me drawn by a grade 2 student. So sweet!
Students created constellation art. Some truly beautiful pieces were created!
Working on our Easter booklet! Printing and colouring inside the lines practice.
The Group of Seven's art was recreated by The Group of (Twenty) Seven!
The Ottawa Humane Society stopped by for a little visit. This definitely brought a smile to each students' face!
Grade 1 students searched the room to practice printing and to learn about the variety of jobs there are in our community.
My amazing associate teacher secretly got each student to write what a good (and not so good) teacher is, and put them all together to create this book for me!
Students brought in snacks for the class to celebrate my last day of practicum. This whole party was a surprise to me!
I got swarmed with goodbye hugs from my students as they were getting ready for the end of the day!
Getting my little cousin started with printing practice and letter recognition.
Practicing beginner sight words and printing!
We love pizza, so what better way to learn about upper and lowercase letters than by cooking an Alphabet Pizza!
Teaching my little cousin about some main organs and how they work together.
We were doctors putting a real patient back together!
Success! Patient has recovered back to full health.
This time we learned about the bones that keep Minnie Mouse standing tall!
Some bubble wands to send the students off into a wonderful summer break!
Grade 5 students had fun matching their example to the right literary device by gathering in the corresponding area in the class!
Grade 4 students were introduced to inferencing in a really fun way - solving a crime!
The case of the missing cookies! Students examined the crime scene, recorded the clues, and used them to inference who stole the cookies.
Students were star detectives during this lesson.
Grade 4 students had fun 'accusing' people by using clues to support their decisions!
Grade 5 students had to create graphs that represented their given data.
Grade 5 students loved math stations!
Grade 5 students created large graphs on laminated anchor chart paper. They loved it!
Grade 5 students were finding Mean, Medians, and Modes.
An assignment for my BEd program turned into a great activity for a grade 6 classroom. Teams raced around our education building in order to complete the race.
My station was all about tangrams.
A create final project to complete her book club!