Remote Ready is my education online blog for parents who wish to engage their child in hands-on, inquiry, and play-based learning during the challenge of remote school. I combine my background as an experienced elementary and special educator with my current work as an active homeschool teacher to two incredible kids.
You may not have more time in your busy schedule to teach, but there’s little ways you can incorporate hands-on tasks into your child’s everyday life! I’m looking forward to going on this journey with you.
Here I am! Finding oneself in Literacy
Working with children who need a little extra support when it comes to reading and writing is a part of my career that I love. You can see the growth, a child who can’t identify their letters, beginning to read their very first words. There’s nothing quite like it. And although there’s programs and infinite…
Engineering Math ~ Spinning our Way through Counting
Where do you see math in the following picture? This chart came from a noticing I had that during a unit focusing on the concepts of design that the children in EY5 were very interested in spinning tops that year- Beyblades to be exact. These were the tops where you release the button and the…
How to Make a Unit Documentation Book
Before I answer the question of how to make a unit documentation book, let me first share a little about what a unit documentation book is. A documentation book shows the flow of the unit over time from the beginning to the end of the student’s journey and engagement with a Unit of Inquiry. It…
Literacy that Lasts
When I was working as an Intern in South Korea, one of my mentor teachers once told me that he did not see the purpose of worksheets. He strongly believed that there was no organizer the students couldn’t make themselves, or concept that couldn’t be more creatively introduced or dug into. He would further rationalize…
Finding the Numbers in Football
Numbers are all around us; we just need to look for them. So often, we choose to ignore the numbers right in front of us—the numbers that are part of our everyday routines and the daily desires of our students. Or maybe we don’t choose to ignore them. Maybe we are so conditioned to a…
Making Our Own Galimotos
Central Idea: Forces make things start, stop and move in different ways Lines of Inquiry: To wrap up our unit on forces and motion in a fun, engaging way we introduced our students to the story, “Galimoto” by Karen Lynn Williams. In this story, a young boy uses wire to make a push-toy car to…
What is Open Inquiry?
What? Open inquiry is a purposeful time of our day lasting about 45 minutes, where students engage in a variety of learning engagements that are connected to our learning objectives. How? Open Inquiry is set-up as stations around the Hub that student’s “sign-up” for. At the beginning of the year, we asked students each day…
Welcome Weeks
In the welcome weeks of the school year, my main goal is to get to know my students. Another goal, is for my students to make the connection that in order to achieve any hopes and dreams they might have for the year, we must create a safe space that encourages risk-taking and accepts mistakes.…
Comparing and Contrasting Stories- Holiday Fun!
Common Core Reading Literature RL.K.9 With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories What? First students compared and contrasted the popular fable, “The Gingerbread boy” with a local take on the story, “The Runaway Injera.” After making treats that resembled each story, students again compared and contrasted…
Weather Patterns around the World
PYP Who We Are Central Idea: Awareness of weather patterns inspires people to create solutions for living safely and comfortably in different places. Lines of Inquiry: What? Students explore their own identity through reflecting on memorable weather experiences and how they needed to respond to different types of weather. How? This project began because of…
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