We are Champions!

Kids surprise me all the time!!  It always amazes me how hard it is for kids to acknowledge how awesome they are.  Don't get me wrong, they show off all the time,  but when it comes to talking about how much they have accomplished this year and the hard work that it required, they instantly become shy and humble!  Classroom Champions was perfect for my kids because it helped them realize that results are always earned through hard work and never just given.  Given their young age, I think that is great.  They can use that message to carry over to next year and hopefully is just a part of who they are!

So, I made time for us to acknowledge our successes this year!  We had a bragging party and each accomplishment was sure to be followed by the steps (hard work) that lead to that success.  Seems like a lot of 2nd and 3rd graders, but they did it.  The energy in the room was really great and the smiles (although humble) we priceless.  Students made awards for each other and I was sure to make note that it took (us as a team) for our successes to occur.

We bring it all together, we made presentations to reflect on Classroom Champions this year. They turned out very cute.  Plus, some photos of the kids getting their certificates from Nate and Classroom Champions.  It was the best to hear kids excited for each other!

How We Became Champions

This year went by like a blur.  We opened up the year by cheering on CC mentors in the Summer Olympics.  We unveiled our own mentor +Alex Rigsby , got a surprise visit from +Steve Mesler  and +Rhiannon MacDonnell .  We set goals, persevered, made friends (and benches), we were visited by +Heatherle Chambers , and we found time to smash our learning goals and personal goals like nobody's business.

I know we shouldn't say we have favorites, but this year has been one of my top 3 of my 15 years.  So much so, that I am looping up to 6th grade with these Champs!

So as we closed out the year, I asked them to create Google Slide shows to talk about their own personal journeys.  I have shared this folder -----> Our Journey that links to each of their slide shows.  I think their words say far more than I ever could! so enjoy!

Thank you, Alex.  For everything! You made this year so memorable for me and our Rockstars! 

WE ARE CHAMPIONS

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I think this was one of the busiest months I ever had trying to complete this months topic.  I did something completely different for the k-3s in our school.  The students never had a chance to talk to Brad Bowden over bluejeans so I was in contact with our technology coach and she help me set up a chat with an Paralympian guide named Andrea Bundon.  I started by showing the monthly video from Brad and talked about what a classroom champion athlete was and how we were going to talk to someone else during the class instead of Brad. 

I had the technology coach come in and talk to the class about the Paralympics and what a guide was for down hill skiing.  We then as a group created questions that we wanted to ask her while we chatted over bluejeans.  The students spent 45 minutes talking to her over bluejeans and had the same type of chat as the older students. 
  

"Who is Andrea Bundon? Andrea is an athlete and a researcher who is from Regina, Saskatchewan. She went to St. Pius School and to Leboldus High School. She has lived in many places across Canada and has even lived in England! Now she lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She loves it there because she can do her research, ski and even row. Which happens to be another sport that she excels at!"
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With the older students, I had a couple of them write  a summary for what they did for the month of May. 

At the beginning of the year we made goals that we were supposed to try and achieve. Then at the end of the year we looked at those goals again and made new ones. Some examples of peoples goals are : 
• get home work in before its due date
• make  a sports team in high school
• become a grade 8 leader next year
 To go along with our goals we took pictures of ourselves cut them out and put them on the bulletin board to make it look like we're talking. Another thing we did was we talked to Brad Bowden. Some of the things we asked him were, stuff about his sports life like how he got medals. We also asked him about some of his injuries. He said the worst injury was almost getting his thumb cut off by someone's blade. Then we asked him a little about his personal life. At the very end we asked him how we can be better at sports and how to succeed. He also told us about sportsman ship.