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The 2022 Heathcote Art and Poetry Festival is almost here! Students have been working on their art and poetry and now they are preparing to share it for the festival. As has been the last two years, the 2022 Art and Poetry Festival is a virtual one. Every class has it’s own Padlet for sharing…
The Poetry Festival is an annual tradition at Heathcote School. 2021 has kept the tradition going… In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, hybrid learning, and an eventual return to a socially distanced full school day, the Heathcote community of students and teachers forged ahead, studied poetry, talked poetry, wrote poetry, and in the end,…
The 2021 Heathcote Poetry Festival is almost here. Students have been working on their poetry and now they are beginning to add art to it. Every class has a Padlet poetry wall. In grades K-1 students may be uploading pictures of poems they write, or they may be creating using Wixie. 2nd graders maybe might…
The Poetry Festival is an annual tradition at Heathcote School. 2020 has kept the tradition going… In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, school closure, and e-learning, the Heathcote community of students and teachers forged ahead, studied poetry, talked poetry, wrote poetry, and in the end, created an amazing collection of student poetry, with a…
The 2020 Heathcote Poetry Festival is almost here. Students have been working on their poetry and now they are beginning to add art to it. Every class has a Padlet poetry wall. In grades K-1 students may be uploading pictures of poems they write, or they may be creating using Wixie. 2nd graders maybe might…
Adobe Spark is a great platform we’ve been experimenting with this year. Adobe Spark has a few great benefits including being cloud based so students can use any connected device and access their work anywhere, and it gives you 3 options; Spark Post, Spark Page, and Spark Video. We used Spark Post earlier this year…
Recently we introduced 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders to the Adobe Spark platform of creative apps. Adobe Spark Post is used when creating graphics such as flyers, posters, infographics, and so on. Adobe Spark Page is for creating scrolling multimedia web pages. Adobe Spark Video is a visual storytelling platform that adds simple animations, music,…