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Judy White (contemporary Canadian artist), "Sun-kissed," 2021, Acrylic on canvas

6 Cool Visual Thinking Activities That Strengthen Student Writing Visual activities like mapping, sketching, sculpting, and writing comic strips can help students clarify ideas, strengthen drafts, and deepen literary analysis.

Visual activities like mapping, sketching, sculpting, and writing comic strips can help students clarify ideas, strengthen drafts, *and* deepen literary analysis. 🗺️ ✍️

#literacy #EduSky

Photo looking down on a wooden tray divided into four compartments in which artist pastels are stored according to colour, blues, purples, pinks and yellows

"... I love the thought these pastels once dusted Georgia O’Keeffe’s gorgeous hands" - Annie Leibovitz on her photograph of O'Keeffe's pastels, 2010 #Womensart
(via P.Kenny FB)

Photo of a round hat in black placed on a white surface, the hat has colourful embroidered details with images of flowers and leaves around the sides and on top

Métis embroidery is a unique Indigenous art form characterized by stylized floral designs in bright colours, silk thread (or beads), on clothing & household items, to create symbolic pieces that tell stories & reflect the natural world #WomensArt

Native plant seeds from critically endangered Garry Oak ecosystems to be preserved vancouversun.com/news/native-...

Photo looking up to a colourful crocheted banner of mandalas suspended between two buildings and against a dark blue sky

Crocheted mandala, street decorations, a collective creation by women in Licata, Italy #WomensArt

Textile artwork featuring a wintery blue icy rural landscape of hills and trees under a swirling sky

'Winter Embroidery' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #WomensArt

Photo featuring a tiny sculpture of a winged dragon created with small metal cogs resting on the end of a white finger

Steampunk dragon by US artist Sue Beatrice who creates steampunk sculptures and jewellery by recycling old watch parts #WomensArt

The upper half of a sitting fox facing left looking right created with small leaves in browns, orange and green all against a white background

#Fox by Helen Ahpornsiri, who creates intricate collage artworks created with real pressed flowers and leaves. #WomensArt #Autumn #Fall

Print featuring a curled up sleeping fox on leaves and among branches of a bush

'Resting Fox' by UK printmaker Sarah Bays #WomensArt

Bolivian artist Sonia Falcone, Campo de Color (Field of Colour), 2012 mixed media installation, 88 clay bowls containing spices and colourful powders to highlight diversity #WomensArt

Print featuring a stylised owl with long feathers radiating from its head and body in black and red, all on a cream background

The Enchanted Owl, 1960, Stonecut on paper by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak. Printmaking has been a valuable form of expression for many artists within Indigenous communities #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

My favourite ones on here are the Google Doc and the Last One Talking methods. Great list.

Hilarious.

Happy New Year #MathPlay 🧮 Friends!! Let's start 2025 with a Which One Doesn't Belong?🤔 #WODB

#EduSky #MathSky #MathsToday #ITeachMath #MTBoS #ElemMathChat #Math #Maths

Using Board Games to Teach Math to Young Children Playing board and card games can improve number sense among children as young as 3—and it’s fun!

Playing board and card games can improve number sense among children as young as 3—and it’s fun! 🃏✨ #MathSky

Absolutely! I would expand this by saying, use ADST quick challenges the first week so you can observe and assess strengths and areas of development for a class, while also having fun. Debriefing these activities helps create essential agreements as a class.

Screenshot of slide titled "Classroom Brain Boosts" features links to 15 brain boost activities.

Looking around and seeing 💤?

These resources from educator @foes4sports.bsky.social can help you boost the energy in the room!

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Graphic showing different dollar amounts for different s’mores ingredient options.

Saw this on FB and thought it would make a good math warm-up or Math Talk

What would you pick? 🍫🔥

Have students who need an extra challenge in math class? Find a set of 21st century pattern blocks and have them play. Lots of ideas on Dan Finkel's site mathforlove.com/games/centur...

Always fun puzzles from @mathequalslove.bsky.social . If you have students in your elementary intermediate classes who need extra challenges available, print up some of her puzzles and have them in a box with whiteboard markers and a plastic wipe off folder. Amazon has the folders.

This is an older article on Cult of Pedagogy, but it still rings true and makes so much difference in how you experience a school or school year.

Five sculpted stylised and symbolic black and white figures in differing sizes

The sculptures of Indigenous Australian artist Serena Bonson who lives and works in the Manigrida community in the Northern Territory #WomensArt

Reaching toward blue
Vibrant and soaking in sun
Surrounded by life.

Beautiful Pender Island.

Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist and creator of the 1000 postcards project; mini paintings of natural life inspired by her ‘re-wilding’ of a Welsh farm #WomensArt

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a speckled bird, a Starling, with its back to the viewer looking left, against a light brown material background with pink branches leaves and flowers on which the bird appears to be perched

The work of contemporary textile artist Julie French #WomensArt

Ceramic stylised sitting cats which face and mirror each other, both have large bodies and smaller heads, both are blue and white with floral design both sit on a white surface

UK ceramics artist Sarah Saunders #WomensArt

I am looking into a question: How have teachers differentiated early primary, whole-class UFLI science-of-reading-based programs (with explicit lessons on letters) when they have gifted students who already read/write above grade level, or who intuitively have picked up reading skills?

Mountain Bluebird. British Columbia, #Canada

Fun Fact: they can spot caterpillars and insects in tall grass at the remarkable distance of over 45 meters

#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #photography #birding

Textile artwork with busy flower motifs in purples and greens

Michelle Mischkulnig, contemporary Australian textile artist #WomensArt