Look what my principal dropped off to me today, will be reading this next, after I finish my current book! (Plus the note from my principal, it's sometimes the littlest things that can make a big difference in the culture of your school!) @meehanedu.bsky.social @mrmatera.bsky.social

Finished up #ITCamp at @mme-mccarthy.bsky.social session on Cardboard Creations in the Classroom, as we were challenged to create a sustainable city, my contribution was the windmill and coded a @microbit.org to light it up! #EDUsky

Thanks to Karine Babineau for her session on "Student-Led Conferences" love the idea of using Google sites to create student portfolios, will definitely be doing this for the upcoming school year! #ITCamp2025 #EDUsky

Big thanks to Joseph Chaisson and his session "Level Up Learning: Gimkit's Daily Grind to AI-Enhanced Mastery" now I know to create a class to speed up student login and have all my students names so reviewing reports will be so much faster! #ITCamp2025 @gimkit.com

Learned about "All Ten" from @mrslobodnick.bsky.social when learning about "Supporting Mathematical Rich Tasks Using AI and Technology" today at #ITCamp2025 took me until the night to finally get 2 and 3 but I got all ten!!!

Day 31: Another great review game from #EMC2Learning Territory Takedown, students love the choice options of this review game, it allows all students an entry point and the power-ups can be a real game changer for any team! @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social #EDUsky

Day 30: My Grade 5s learned about the harmful effects of homophobia today and what it means to be a LGBTQ+ ally, then they created pins after learning what my rainbow pin means and why I wear it everyday to school, some very creative pin designs! #EDUsky

Day 29: Releasing my last two cards for Free Card Friday in my gamified class to help those guilds and players finish strong! Love these #EMC2Learning comic card templates! @meehanedu.bsky.social @mrmatera.bsky.social #EDUsky

Day 28: We used Color Me Creative from #EMC2Learning as our activity in Text Quest today, students had to create nail polish that went with a scene from their book, the twist - the winner of the previous challenge got to pick a colour that each group couldn't use! @meehanedu.bsky.social #EDUsky

Day 27: When I find an #EMC2Learning activity that my students really like I try to get everything printed in colour and laminated so that I can use them over and over again! @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social #EDUsky

Day 26: Wanted to spotlight a couple of poetry picture books that I recently purchased for my class! They are a big hit with my grade 4/5s! Poems about science, poems told in comic form and fairy tales told in verse then in reverse! #EDUsky

Day 25: #EMC2Learning has Gamified their intro to their site for new and experienced EMC2 users, I've been with them since launch but I've started Teacher Quest to get ideas and try resources that I haven't used yet, first up Candy Bar Challenge! @meehanedu.bsky.social @mrmatera.bsky.social #EDUsky

Day 24: New to #EMC2Learning try one of their Penny Pedagogies like Upside Down Understanding, students get the chance to dream up an alternate universe for information they’ve learned in class, think of it as adding a little multiverse fun to your classroom! @meehanedu.bsky.social #EDUsky

Day 23: Had a little time at the end of the day to do a little bookcase organizations, not done yet but a good start! These are my read alouds, education books, book club books and my mentor texts as well as my Lego! #EDUsky

Day 21: My Grade 5s are learning about a Canadian First Nation of their choosing using Triple Threat Throwdown from #EMC2Learning students used sketchnotes, Story Dice and Lego to show their learning. Every single student was engaged in learning! @meehanedu.bsky.social @mrmatera.bsky.social #EDUsky

Day 20: All set up for tomorrow #EMC2Learning @meehanedu.bsky.social @mrmatera.bsky.social What do I have planned? More info on this activity tomorrow! #EDUsky

Day 16: How is #EMC2Learning like Lego? Take a bigger activity like Text Quest and you can add in a smaller activity like a Hero Builder into the Text Quest, making learning fun and engaging!!! This is what I did today! @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social #EDUsky

Day 15: Used #EMC2Learning Story Dice for the first time this year (won't wait this long next year!) and got them to look at a Storyworks article about this old lunch box selling for over ten thousand dollars, really thing they understand the power of Story Dice now! @meehanedu.bsky.social #EDUsky

Day 14: Getting all the students' 3D designed wrenches ready, I gamified this by using a vignette about coming across a tressure chest that needs to be opened, if students' wrenches can turn the bolt (all bolts are different sizes) they get the treasures inside! @meehanedu.bsky.social #EDUsky

Day 13: I use #EMC2Learning Horizontal Badge Builder to create my badges for my gamified class, below is an example of a student's badge haul for this year, but they're not done, as we still have time left in our school year! @meehanedu.bsky.social @mrmatera.bsky.social #EDUsky

Day 12: I'm working with a pre-service teacher and we have been talking about assessment so I introduced her to #EMC2Learning Single Point Rubric! That's right they also have great templete that can help you assess your students or get them involved in the process too! @meehanedu.bsky.social #EDUSky

Day 11: Since I started gamifying I have had Mistwraith that takes away a space for an item card from a student's card holder, they have asked "How do I remove it?" years later, a student designed a card to solve that very problem!!! @meehanedu.bsky.social @mrmatera.bsky.social #EMC2Learning #EDUsky

Day 10: Thanks to Harrietsfield Elementary, who gave me funds to purchase 4 copies of each of these nonfiction books for my new nonfiction book club! I've had success with my students reading novels in their book clubs so now I'm building my nonfiction collection! @meehanedu.bsky.social #EDUsky

Day 7: Posting everyday is a challenge, unfortunately wasn't able to post day 7 but I'm not about to quit now, @meehanedu.bsky.social challenged me so on to Day 8! #EDUsky

Day 6: Imagine you're a student and a teacher gives you an item card, as you have just earned one of those privileges, talk about getting a students attention, I created these with #EMC2Learning item templates, bring a little TCG into your class! @meehanedu.bsky.social @mrmatera.bsky.social #EDUsky

Day 4: Big thank you to Harrietsfield Elementary's SAC (School Advisory Councils) that gave me the funds to purchase 4 copies of each of these novel-in-verse for my new book clubs that goes with my poetry unit! Let me know what you would choose to read! @meehanedu.bsky.social #EDUsky

Needed to add a little excitement to my lesson on inferring about Nubian society so off to #EMC2Learning and found a resource I've never used and students loved it, the ability to choose their level of difficulty with each inference, game on! @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social #EduSky

Are your students obsessed with the game Hot Seat, #EMC2Learning has created an activity that gets everyone involved and it works for any subject, my students worked on vocabulary from our ancient societies unit in social studies, what a blast! #EduSky @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social

Used #EMC2Learning Uncharted Territories to see what my grade 5s understood from our Social Studies reading on Ancient Nubia and its geographic location, climate and vegetation. So fun for student to show their learning in engaging ways! @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social #EduSky

Using #EMC2Learning Emoji Kitchen to get students to mashup emojis and write about sadness and worry for our health lesson! Some very creative mashups! @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social

5 days into our book club books and it's time to introduce Text Quest from #EMC2Learning students start with a debate question choosing easy, medium or hard which then grants them advantages in the bonus battle, students recreated setting from their books @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social

This was my favourite week at school, as I introduced my students to our book club books! #EduSky

Want to have a Family Feud style game in your classroom, I used #EMC2Learning Survey Surprise (a Penny Pedagogy activity) to help student review causes, responses and ways to cope with stress for our health class! #edusky @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social

Tried #EMC2Learning Track Attack, think Mario Kart but as a board game, my students were engaged in reviewing their multiplication strategies, students liked being able to choose what gear to be in each turn (hint: we used dice to track the gears) @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social #edusky

Finished level 3 of our Boss Battle today reviewing math concepts from all of term 1 using @meehanedu.bsky.social and #EMC2Learning Egg Dash Challenge, students LOVED this activity! @mrmatera.bsky.social

Students had their first major Boss Battle, based on @mrmatera.bsky.social 3 level system, reviewing language arts vocabulary with @quizizz.bsky.social then needed to create the water cycle and a map with a legend out of lego, 2 levels down one more to go on Tuesday when the gym is free!

My grade 5s are investigating Nova Scotia artifacts as part of their social studies curriculum, all about hands on learning #EDUsky

Students used @schoolai.bsky.social to help revise their memoirs, and they loved the instant feedback, students' shared how much their writing is better because of spending this time revising! Thanks @mrhennigar.bsky.social as I was able to remix one of his "spaces" @lkennedy37.bsky.social #EDUsky

Used #EMC2Learning activity Roll Them Bones to get my grade 5s to review weather instruments for science, students loved the challenge of answering the questions with a set amount of words! @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social