I went around quickly yesterday morning to shoot some video of some of the banners that each of the four sixth grade classes have been working on for our Quidditch tournament this coming week. I love how we integrate art and writing and dance/music and other areas into the whole Quidditch event. Peace (in the […]
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Slice of Life: Quidditch Season Begins
This is for the Slice of Life Challenge. It’s the start of Quidditch season at my school. Infectious energy of Quidditch begins! #slice2013 #6words podcast: soundcloud.com/dogtrax/slice-… — KevinHodgson (@dogtrax) March 7, 2013 And how we play our version of the game: Peace (in the game), Kevin
The Quidditch Glogster Challenge
Today is our Annual Quidditch Championship. It’s no doubt going to be a loud, energetic day. I feel a headache coming on already. 🙂 Leading up to this day have been various curriculum activities (writing, art, math, etc.) but I also put out a voluntary challenge to my students. I set up a project in […]
The Stickman Quidditch Video
Each year, as we approach our annual Quidditch Tournament, a member of our staff works on a video that will get burned into a DVD for all of our sixth graders. Until this year, he has had a group of fifth graders come around and interview us classroom teachers, asking a set series of questions. […]
Slice of Life: The Quidditch Fairness Doctrine
As I have mentioned before in Slice of Life, we play a version of Quidditch at our school (see the tutorial video we made a few years back) and March is the month where the Quidditch excitement takes hold for our sixth graders, as it leads to our 13th annual Quidditch Tournament in early April. […]
Slice of Life: Quidditch Comes Around Again
Fellow Slice of Lifers from the past know that March and April mean Quidditch at our elementary school. In about three or four weeks, we hold an entire day of Quidditch for the four sixth grade classes, using rules first invented by a student and refined over the years by other students and teachers. My […]
Today … We Play … Quidditch
For my students, today is one of those days they have been waiting for since kindergarten. Today, our sixth grade takes part in the Quidditch Championship, in which all four classes square off against each other on the gym floor for our version of the magical game (the video tutorial is here). It may be […]
Slice of Life: From Quidditch fields to Baseball fields
I would be remiss not to write more about Quidditch and baseball before the Slice of Life challenges ends today. I’m somewhat avoided these topics because I felt like it would be Groundhog Day — echoing what I have written for SOL in the last few years in March (it’s amazing how much of our […]
Quidditch: the game we play
I am following with interest the various news articles about the upcoming collegiate Quidditch World Cup this coming weekend (46 teams?), mainly because our elementary school has been playing a version of Quidditch for the past ten years. The college version is quite different than ours, and I have to say, I think I like […]
Ice Ice Baby: Quidditch is Coming
Tomorrow, we hold our annual Quidditch Tournament at our school, where the four sixth grade classes face off throughout the entire day (yep, all day) in a series of Quidditch matches. The kids are excited and trying to keep them focused on the classroom … a bit difficult. My team is Dry Ice and they […]