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Six Year Olds CAN Self-Assess | Primary Preoccupation
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Thoughts from a grade one teacher. Posted by: Kathy Cassidy. March 18, 2008. Six Year Olds CAN Self-Assess. Despite my lack of success, I have really wanted to make this work. This past fall, borrowing heavily from the work of Dawn Kesslering, I designed a new self-assessment tool that included components from all the strands of our language arts curriculum. And our math curriculum. Laquo; Why Am I Here in WordPress? It’s Not About the Technology. On March 19, 2008. On March 20, 2008. You are commenting ...
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What’s In a .com Name? | Primary Preoccupation
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Thoughts from a grade one teacher. Posted by: Kathy Cassidy. June 7, 2010. What’s In a .com Name? I guess the answer to that question depends on what your name is. I began thinking about the whole .com thing a couple of years ago. There are other people named Kathy Cassidy. I know this because I occasionally get emails from pre-teen girls asking me for autographed pictures. I have yet to oblige them and send one, but I’m sure the author Cathy Cassidy. At that time, kathycassiy.com. I opted for .ca be...
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Presentations | Primary Preoccupation
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Thoughts from a grade one teacher. Besides teaching, I speak about primary literacy and the ways that technology can enhance elementary curriculum and engage our students. Here are some of the recent presentations I have done:. October, 2010 K12Online Conference. July, 2010 – Building Learning Communities. June, 2010 – ISTE10. Planning for Technology in the Elementary Classroom. With Amanda Marrinan and Maria Knee). October, 2009 – Early Childhood Education Council. June, 2009 – NECC. Making Up the Rules.
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Construction Day | Primary Preoccupation
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Thoughts from a grade one teacher. Posted by: Kathy Cassidy. December 11, 2011. Some of the Materials for Construction. 8220;It’s construction day! 8221; buzzed the students to each other as they came into my classroom. This day had been eagerly anticipated as the pile of construction materials in our classroom had grown. Investigate observable characteristics and uses of natural and constructed objects and materials and. Examine methods of altering and combining materials to create objects. They “...
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Cakes, Snakes and Boxes: Passion-based Learning | Primary Preoccupation
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Thoughts from a grade one teacher. Posted by: Kathy Cassidy. December 10, 2011. Cakes, Snakes and Boxes: Passion-based Learning. This article was originally posted on the Voices from the Learning Revolution. Blog of Powerful Learning Practice. It contains some information that has previously been posted on this blog. If you are a regular reader of this space, you may want to skip down to the “Showing Their Learning” sub-title. Making Patterns with Cake. And so we tried it. Printed on it, and they went to...
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I’ve Moved! | Primary Preoccupation
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Thoughts from a grade one teacher. Posted by: Kathy Cassidy. January 17, 2012. Yes, it’s true. This blog is moving! After almost four years in this space, I now have a shiny, new blog at kathycassidy.com. All of my past posts from Primary Preoccupation have been copied over to that site (also called Primary Preoccupation), and that is where new posts will now appear. Why did I move? And had it point to a site that was a collection of links. The technical support at Bluehost. If you have been reading my p...
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Making Up the Rules | Primary Preoccupation
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Thoughts from a grade one teacher. Posted by: Kathy Cassidy. January 8, 2012. Making Up the Rules. Using the Nintendo DS. This year, I have been using PBL (passion or project-based learning) in my classroom. Although language arts and math have certainly been involved, I have mainly been using the outcomes of my science, social studies and health curriculum as the focal point of my backwards by design planning. Myself.) It covers some social studies and some health outcomes. As with all PBL, I wa...One t...
