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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷

@te4ch.bsky.social
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ESL educator. Ottawa, Canada My posts are mostly about my class of young adult newcomers who are learning English, the language of science and the language of math.

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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This Canada Day you'll find me on Gander
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Completed my vulnerable sector check today so I can be part of a sponsorship team for a family of new Canadians. #SaltingTheVibes #OneOfTheTwo
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Salting the vibes at the Book Tower in Prague
A woman wearing a mask and standing in front of a circular tower of books.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Salting the vibes on Eurostar from London to Brussels.
Woman with short hair and glasses in a Canada Strong N95 respirator mask. Standing in front of a Eurostar train.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Me too.
Classroom banner with bitmoji teacher.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Warning found at The Helix park in Falkirk Scotland.
Sign warning of Avian Flu in the park.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Braved the crowds in Edinburgh to rush over to the national gallery and sit for awhile with Robert Frost's The Hunt. A bucket list tick. Also, still salting the vibes.
Square painting of the goddess Diana and two other women. Done in oranges, royal blues, gold, and emerald greens. Monkeys and cheetahs in a jungle setting.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Salting the vibes at Culloden Battlefield tour.
Woman in a respirator standing on a battlefield in Scotland with a cairn in the background.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Today in the COC, students drew and labeled a picture of the water cycle. Then they explained the process to a partner in their L1. It was great to see the confidence students had speaking their home language. Now that they've solidified their understanding, they will practice explaining in English.
Hand drawn picture of the ocean and mountains with clouds and rain. The water cycle is labeled.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Today in the COC, we published our first book of the semester. Students co-created the text and then took pictures to match the story. A Mouse in December may or may not have been inspired by true events. 😏🐁 #EduSky #SLIFE #OntEd
Self published HiLo book about a mouse in the classroom
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This week in the COC, students made compound machines from a wheel & axle and an inclined plane. Today they will use new vocabulary to describe what their machine does.
Wheel and axle made of cardboard pulling a toy car up a ramp.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Today in the COC we started a combined math and science project. We are making a compound machine from a wheel & axle and an inclined plane. We'll be using our measuring skills and our geometry vocabulary. Students watched an instructional video and wrote down the steps. #EduSky #SLIFE
Handmade cardboard gears.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Civic duty complete.
Woman wearing an N-95 respirator in front of a Canadian polling station.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Biking Season Day 1: The snow has finally left the bike path! What a beautiful commute through the Experimental Farm. #OttBike
Blue sky. Tree line in the distance. Implanted field with a bike path running along beside it.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This week in the COC, we used a prompt from the book Naming the World to create poems about How People See Us. Then students used Canva to make posters. #EduSky #SLIFE #OntEd
How people see me. 
My mom sees me as an elephant. I am confident. My brother sees me as a monkey. I'm selfish. My friend sees me as a dog. I am friendly. My sister sees my as a cat. I am funny. I'm a bear. I am strong.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Bitmoji of blond woman with short hair wishing people a happy Eid
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Eid Mubarak from the COC students. #OntEd #SLIFE
Paper lanterns to celebrate Eid
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Today in the COC, I found students moving forward through my Area Puzzles slideshow during their lunch! Am I upset that they've worked through all the puzzles for next week, or happy they love doing them? #OntEd #SLIFE
Area puzzle on whiteboard
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Students in the COC are working feverishly to beat eachother as they practice reading instructions to create shapes. Currently pink team is in the lead. #VNPS #EduSky
Slips of paper with a questions?
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Civic duty done.
Woman wearing an N95 respirator standing in front of a Vote sign. Ontario election
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
That's an easy answer. I wear an N95 every day all day. Very breathable thanks to Canada Strong Masks. #bfc530
Teacher in front of desks wearing a gray breathtec n95 mask from Canada Strong Masks
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Yesterday in the COC, I placed a glass under my dripping tap. This is how much water was collected overnight. This is a good lesson for our environment unit. Multiply this by the number of dripping taps in a school and that's a lot of money and water wasted. #EduSky
Full glass of water
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Today in the COC, The Box of Life brought us our very own vermicomposter. We are studying recycling, so this fit in well with our unit. We are looking forward to finding out what foods our red wigglers prefer and how long it takes them to eat a banana peel. #EduSky #ELsky
A wooden vermicomposter with an "I went to work school" postcard.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
First field trip of 2025! Ottawa Public Library Main Branch hosted the COC today. 30 newcomers now have their own library cards. #EduSky @mychal3ts.bsky.social
Slide show welcoming the students
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Today in the COC, students are using NPVS to work through some fraction questions. Each student has a different role to force them to speak English with their classmates. #ITeachMath #EduSky #SLIFE
3 young men working at the whiteboard
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The COC is studying endangered species this week, and I was searching for a video I had previously seen from David Attenborough. The third result from Google was this climate denier. THIRD! Next week's lesson: media awareness. #EduSky #SLIFE
Screen capture of a Google Search. Title: Attenborough's Arctic Betrayal
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
In the COC, we will often sort objects by their properties or traits. I used Jamboard for this task and missed it until I realized that I could close the side bar and lengthen the screen in Google slides. This allows me to scroll through student work without presenting. #SLIFE #EduSky
Google Slides with 7 images of different animals.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Today in the COC, I dug out Building Academic Vocabulary (Marzano/Pickering) for my student teacher. I like how being a practicum teacher forces me to revisit language acquisition theories. #EduSky #SLIFE
Book cover - Building Academic Vocabulary
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In the COC, we are building up our family vocabulary, so when my daughter thrifted this game for me, I was thrilled. It's played like battleships. Students practice Yes/No question formation. #EduSky #SLIFE
A game board that looks like a house. 8 family characters can be moved around.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
At lunch, they went for something bigger.
Snow Bear
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Last Friday in the COC, we completed our poetry/art project. Using @josephfasano.bsky.social 'Self' template, students were able to use their new vocabulary to express their sense of self. #EduSky We placed the poems in silhouettes of our heads.
Bulletin board with student art and poetry.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
There is nothing more exciting than your first snowman, even if you're a young adult. This one is tiny, but the joy was large. #SLIFE #EduSky.
A snowman about 6 inches tall.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I made this advent calendar 25 years ago. I love taking it out of the box every year and reminiscing about past places we've lived. This calendar has traveled with us on all our postings.
Quilted Advent calendar with a blue background and a tree in the middle. The pockets are made to look like houses and there is a moon in the right top corner.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Learning about outdoor shelters at the OCDSB outdoor education center. Great PD! #EduSky #SaltingTheVibes
Two ladies in a green tarp shelter. One is wearing an N95
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Today in the COC we used some ESL Library interview tasks to practice the description words we have been studying. This is subscription based, but I love it. You can print poster sized images to help with vocabulary acquisition. #EduSky #SLIFE
Posters showing comparative adjectives: taller/shorter and younger/older.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Today in the COC, we used a Venn diagram to compare Mammals and Birds. Our scientific thinking block is my favourite for adding vocabulary. Many students have background knowledge that they can access, so they can just focus on the language learning. #EduSky #SLIFE
A Venn diagram comparing mammals and birds.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Today I received my Bears & Chairs kit from Communakit. Can't wait to let my volunteers use this 1-1 with some of my newest English speakers. It's preposition, size, and colour practice all in one. #EduSky
A red plastic bear sitting on a white chair. A blue plastic bear sitting on a black chair.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Freezing rain and snow in the forecast. It was good while it lasted, but I guess it's time to put away the bike. 😞 #ottbike
Female dressed in red coat and black rain pants, standing beside a blue bike.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It's halfway through the semester and our word walls continue to expand in the COC. Word walls should be co-created, so we start the year with a blank slate. #EduSky #SLIFE
Math, English, and Science vocabulary charts.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Today in the COC was our last day of our plant experiment. After 18 days, we noticed that the plant with no light grew tall, but with little colour. We wrote comparative sentences after our observations. #SLIFE #ELD #EduSky
A tall bean plant.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Today the COC class wore the poppies we made to our school's Remembrance Day ceremony. They also took time to reflect on the ongoing conflicts in the world, many of which have forced their own migration from Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea, Palestine and Somalia. #SLIFE #EduSky #ESL
A handmade paper poppy.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Today in the COC, we turned pulp into poppies. Thanks to the Fanshawe college poppy project and the Legion.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
My students carved their first ever jack-o'-lanterns this week. Thank you to farmworkers in Canada and across the border. #SLIFE #EduSky
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Today in the COC we began our plant experiment. We predicted what might happen to a plant that gets no light, or no water, or no soil. #SLIFE #ELD #EduSky
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
"Why do we have some many pumpkins", my husband asked. Well, Monday in the COC the students will experience pumpkin carving for the first time. Then we will take our experience and write about it. #SLIFE #ELD #EduSky
Car trunk full of pumpkins
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Today in the COC we used the language experience approach to add new words to our vocabulary, learn about paragraph writing, and practice using time markers. #SLIFE #ELD #EduSky
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Today in the COC YOSICO came to visit and tell us about all their programs.
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Today is Friday in the COC which means we'll be watching a "movie" (animated short film) with limited/no dialogue and then using our newly acquired vocabulary to write sentences. Today's film is Snack Attack. #ELD #SLIFE #EduSky
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
#SaltingTheVibes at first bell practice of the season
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Kristin🇨🇦💉😷 @te4ch.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
#SaltingTheVibes at registration for Adult High School.
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