April Pikkarainen is our guest tonight to talk about the importance of collaborative teaching. April and I taught in a collaborative setting for 2 years where we engaged in daily outdoor learning experiences with our 44 Kindergarten and Grade 1 learners.  Amazing!! I hope you have fun listening to our journey and what we learned from this experience.  

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What We Talk About Today:

*collaborative teaching in a K/1 classroom

*how our collaborative teaching helped with outdoor learning inquiries

*re-imagining how we used our resource support outdoors 

Inspirational people who were mentioned:

Kelli Lundi @KelliB12  

Alan Tesan @AlanaTesan

Catherine Ludwig @CathJule

Hieu Fraser @hieu_fraser

Novelty Nature Notes:

* skunk cabbage generates its own heat which melts the snow around itself – allowing them to bloom early.  

* conifers can “help” control the squirrel population by alternating how many cones / seeds they produce each year.