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Wrestling With Math: Approaches To Problem Solving (video)

1, Oct 2009

There are many ways to solve a problem. As great as the solution can be, however, it’s the process where the learning really happens. In our Investigations math series, we talk a lot about using different creative strategies to approach a problem. We compare math solving strategies to a physical toolbox. As great as a [...]

VoiceThread in the DreamExtreme Classroom

12, Sep 2009

I had a bit of wonderful news today. As I mentioned in an earlier post, a classroom subscription for VoiceThread was being given away by the company itself and Lee Kolbert of the GeekyMomma Blog. In a Twitter update and blog post today, Ms. Kolbert announced that the DreamExtreme class had been selected to win [...]

Finding Our Voice(Thread)

28, Aug 2009

Survive. It’s a good goal for all of us. I mean, it’s pretty obvious that to accomplish anything in life we’ve got to survive just to be able to start the next day…right? As a teacher, my first several years in the classroom could be described as survival years…just getting through each day so we [...]

(Mind) Mapping The Year

28, Aug 2009

The Good News: There are many big things in the works for this school year. The Bad News: It’s awfully easy to lose track of all those big things in the busyness of teaching and learning. The Need: Find a way to map out what we’re going to do that will keep us organized and [...]

Mission: Survival

25, Aug 2009

This fall, we’re going to be embarking on an adventure: a collaborative literature project with South Paris Collaborative hinging on the book The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare. We’ll be reading the book as a whole class, making predictions, reporting back and forth between classes, and creating projects inspired by the story. [...]

Playing For Change: Peace Through Music

8, Aug 2009

StandByMe Sometimes, hard work and a brilliant idea can weave together to make a thing of beauty. Read about a wonderful project that unites public musicians from around the world.

Hey! It’s Us, DreamExtreme!

6, Jun 2009

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The end of the school year – as much as we tried to avoid it – finally reared it’s calendary head and POOF! Summer vacation started. We spent part of the last two days of school recording the music and shooting the video [...]

DreamExtreme Knows What Butterfingers Is!

5, Jun 2009

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Here is part of what we did for our final week as a class. Lots of fun, lots of Trale Lewous, lots of inside jokes, and lots of collaboration. This has been a wonderful year with a great group of students. I wish [...]


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