Can You Believe We Did All This: Recent Episodes

Carolyn Bentum

A class podcast where we share our learning with our family and friends.

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We are finally back sharing about our kindness challenge and demonstrating our growing phonemic awareness skills!

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In this week’s episode we share all about our Case of the Missing Gungerbread Men!

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We are back! We have Ethan, Mackenzie, Emilia, and Andy sharing our phonics and Community Helpers learning.

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In this week’s episode we share the details of our amazing Apple Pie Bake Sale!

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In this week’s episode our SK’s share their Phonics learning so far, Mrs. Bentum’s class sings one of our thanksgiving songs and we share about our upcoming Apple Pie Fundraiser for the Brantford Food Bank.

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In this week’s episode Mrs. Bentum shares about the learning we have done and gives a glimpse into what’s coming ahead in the month of October.

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In this week’s episode we share the parts of an apple in song and our friend Mackenzie labels and apple.

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We share our Closing Circle practice and our very first week of Jolly Phonics learning. Thanks to Megan and Vanessa and a few other friends for helping us out.

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Season 3’s first episode featuring our classroom greetings and our lunch time prayer.

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In this week's episode we share a little of what we're doing in next round of our Jolly Phonics program, our friends Lennon, Aaliyah and Ariana share their geometry learning and we talk a little about how we completed our pumpkin inquiry.  We hope you will enjoy!

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In this week’s episode Mrs. Bentum gives a quick recap of the happenings of the week as it was action packed one and we didn’t have time to have our students share. We hope you will enjoy!

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In this episode we share our completion of our Jolly Phonics program. Our friends Ariana, Levi, Finn, Lennon, Vanessa, Cara, Karsten, and Emilia share their learning about the anatomy of a pumpkin.

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In this week’s episode we have lots of friends who are sharing our learning as we wrapped up our first Edventure Case study, worked on our Memory Verse and practiced our Jolly Phonics sounds. We hope you will enjoy!

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In this week’s episode we share about our Edventure learning and how we are practicing gratitude in our classroom this month. We hope you will enjoy!

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In this week's episode we share more about the Driving Question we are exploring in this first case study of our Edventure Inquiry.  We have a chrysalis update too! 

We also share about our Tricky Heart words, why we call them that way and what words we learned last week. 

We have our first student appearances on this week's episode with our friends: Owen, Audrey, Olivia, Nadia, Troy, Karsten and Cara. 

We hope you will enjoy!

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In this week's episode we share about the intentional way we are learning to pronounce and use sounds to help us with our reading and we share all about our learning about the life cycle of a butterfly.  We hope you will enjoy!

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In this week’s episode we share about the start of our Jolly Phonics program and about some special visitors who joined our class at the end of the week.

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Our Season 2 debut! We share just a short update about how amazing our first week of school was. We hope you enjoy!

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In this week’s episode we share about our progress on our Bee PBL and our friends Finn and David share some pretty great reading! We hope you will enjoy hearing all about what we have learned this week!

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In this week’s episode we share more about the hard work our students are doing, the exciting news about our book, more about our Bee PBL and our friend David reads his Jolly Phonics book! We hope you enjoy!

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In this week’s episode we release the title of our upcoming self- published book and some of the juicy details about how we created this beautiful work. Our friend Owen V. shares his great reading with us and we also share our driving question for our Give Bees A Chance PBL. We hope you enjoy!

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In this week's episode we share more about our plant PBL and the success we have had as gardeners.  We share about the progress of our beautiful work piece an ABC Gardening book.  Our friends Riah and Levi share their reading with us this week too.   We hope you will enjoy!

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Noah tells the last part of Samson’s story on today’s podcast.

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In this week’s episode we share about our learning of the “et” word family, how our plants are growing and the life cycle of a plant. Our friends Ava, Owen L. and Levi are featured. We hope you enjoy!

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We are back after a little break and some flipping back into online learning. In this week’s episode we have our friends Owen V., Emmy, Clark, Moriah, Levi, Cara and Asher share what we have been learning all about. We hope you enjoy!

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We share a little about what we learned about spring and Holy Week this past week. Our friends Finn and Moriah are featured reading our book and Jolly Phonics books.

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In this week’s episode we highlight two more friends who have completed their Jolly Phonics books, Clark and Nadia. It was a quieter week here with more students away, but we still had lots of fun as we wrapped up a couple of our units together.

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In this week’s episode we share about our learning about ordinal numbers with a yummy snack, our friends Griffin, Owen V. and Finn share their Jolly Phonics books, and we talk a little about the community helpers we discussed this week.

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In this week’s episode we share some of the fun we had on 100th day, talk about the learning we did about families and our friends Joshua and Esme share their mastery of their Jolly Phonics book. We hope you will enjoy!

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In this week’s episode we highlight our completion of our Jolly Phonics review and celebrate with our friend Lennon as she has successfully mastered her letter names and sounds. We hope you will enjoy hearing about all we have learned!

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This week’s episode is a little short and sweet, but it was fun to reflect on and share about the winter fun and our Random Acts of Kindness project.

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In this week’s episode we are so excited to share all about our first week back, about some Valentine’s fun we had, and more. Our friend Emmy shared our book this week and everyone else did a wonderful job helping us with our memory work.

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In this episode we highlight our third week of learning from home and have some of our friends share some things we learned about penguins. Moriah shares her great reading of our Who Lives in the Arctic book. We hope you enjoy!

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In this episode we share the highlights of our second week of learning online. Our friends Griffin, Esme, Lennon, Levi and Owen V. all share with our audience.

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Happy New Year wishes to the JK class and to our family and friends!

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In this episode our students wish you all a Merry Christmas in the different native languages of the countries we learned about during our Christmas Around the World theme. Our friend Lennon also shares our last book of the year. Merry Christmas podcast listeners!

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In this week’s episode we share some of the ways we are celebrating Christmas in our classroom. Our friends Clark, Cara and Finn are featured. We hope you’ll enjoy!

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In this episode we mostly share about the fun we had learning about the gingerbread man and chasing our gingerbread men around the school.

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This week we share the last of our farm learning, some great work with our new Jolly Phonics book and letter review and our memory work. We feature our friends Nadia, Lennon, Esme, Asher and Griffin.

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In this episode we share more great counting, letter practice and what we have learned and done with our farm unit already. Our friends Moriah, Griffin, Owen V., Owen L., Nadia, Levi, Esme and Asher do a wonderful job sharing in this episode.

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In this week’s episode we share more about some of the kindness fun we had, we feature some whole class reading and counting, and our friends Owen V. and Emmy make a special appearance too. Thanks for tuning in!

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In this week’s episode we highlight our new theme unit all about kindness. We share some great reading and counting and all about the fun learning we have had done this past week.

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In this week’s episode our friends Clark, Esme, Owen L., Griffin, David and Emmy share about the fun learning we did as we wrapped up our Pumpkins Unit and in our math and Jolly Phonics.

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In this episode we feature our friends: Clark, Nadia, Levi, Moriah and Joshua as we share about our weekly Jolly Phonics and thematic learning all about Pumpkins.

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We are excited to share some of students’ learning in their own words. Some highlights: Jolly Phonics shared by Esme and Lennon, Our Fall Book by Finn, our fall theme learning by Owen L. and Asher, and our memory verse by Nadia. We hope you enjoy!

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In this week’s episode a highlight was definitely our new PBL/Theme unit Fall, where we are learning all about fall with the focus about Thanksgiving and gratitude.

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In this episode we highlight: 

  • Our Jolly Phonics learning.

  • Some of the learning about Apples we did this week, including: the parts of an apple, learning how to make an apple pie and more. 

  • We also share about how excited we are to be able to read our very own books and share why these emerging readers are a big deal. 

We hope you will enjoy hearing about all that we did this past week!

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In today's episode we highlight: 

  • The Jolly Phonics learning and activities we have done. 

  • Our Apples Unit and the fun we had last week learning about apples. 

  • Our discoveries of fall during Creation Studies. 

Thanks for tuning in!  We hope this will spark little conversations for you and our friends about all the learning they are doing each week. 

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In this week's episode, we highlight our learning in Jolly Phonics, Math, Bible and our Theme Unit. 

There are a few little reminders about: 

  • our show and tell found on our calendar, 

  • labelling clothing, 

  • and our communication bags. 

I hope you enjoy!

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Can You Believe We Did All This? 

Our inaugural episode of our weekly class podcast is now live! In this short podcast I explain what our little class podcast will be all about, I shared about some of the great work and fun we had this week learning our names and I give a preview of what's ahead in our classroom next week.