Mrs.Wideen's Blog

After meeting with the 5/6 teachers at my school and discussing how we teach writing to our students, it got me thinking.  I have always tau...

This blog post is to give a HUGE shout out to the talented and amazing author, Ame Dyckman.  If you ever get the chance to invite her into y...

As a primary level teacher it was my goal to have students communicate their learning from the classroom to the world while leveraging stude...

Yesterday was a very busy day in my grade 2/3 classroom.  We had joined Jen Wagner's  Pumpkin Seed Project .  If you have not visited he...

Last year my grade 1 students were uploading videos to their personal blogs and to youtube, tweeting from our classroom Twitter feed, face t...

Last week, my teaching partner Sarah and I decided that we would start our procedural writing unit.  I always love to teach procedural writi...

If you teach primary children you know how long it takes for a child to type in a website.  At all costs I try not to have my children do th...