Sunday 16 December 2012

What Can You See?

Way back in October I saw a blog post by an amazing teacher in Ontario, Angie Harrison. She proposed a project called "What Can You See?" where students observed and then wrote about all of the things they could see from their classroom windows. You can check out her original post here and you can find a collection of posts here.

We looked at a number of submissions by different classrooms and the students begged to make their own book.  Because we do not have a window in our classroom we decided to go for a walk around our school and take pictures of all of the things we could see. Over the next few weeks we wrote the text for our book.

Finally, Mr. Miller, our Vice Principal came and helped us to record an original song to go with our story.


This project has helped to inspire some amazing discussions and even collaborations with other classrooms. We hope you like our book and we can't wait to see more books added to the project.


We would love to see what some of you can see. Please feel free to send us your own "What Can You See?" book. 

4 comments:

Mr. Miller said...

Great post. Your students are doing some amazing things this year. It was a pleasure working together on this project with all of you!

Mrs. Lowe said...

Thank you for the amazing comment. We love your song! I like your comment. Thank you for helping us write that song! - Love Room 8

Mrs. Taylor said...

Hi Mrs. Lowe and Room 8. This is Mrs. Taylor and Grade 1 Room 10 from Crestivew. We just watched your video that you made for the We Can See Project. Here are some comments from my grade 1 students:

- We all liked your video.
- We are going to try and make our own video.
- Thank you for letting us see your video. It was great!
- Some people practiced hockey at the community club we saw.
- You music was cool.
- We have a compost bin just like that.
- I recognized your plays tructure.

We are going to get started on our video today, and we will let you know when it is all finished.

From Mrs. Taylor and Room 10

Mrs. Lowe said...

The students in room 8 said;
-We liked your comment because you said you recognized our playground.
-Can you show us a picture of your playground so we can see if it looks the same as ours?
-How many kids are in your class?
-It's kinda cool that we are communicating with each other!