We are looking forward to meeting with you and your parents this week for Goal Setting Conferences!
Upcoming Homework:
Fractions Math Package Due Friday
Fractions Quiz Friday
Current Events Group Member #1
Terry Fox: A Canadian Hero
Today was the Terry Fox assembly. Division 1 did a fantastic job as MC's and speakers! All families are invited to make a pledge to the Terry Fox Foundation. Our goal is $5,000 this year and the deadline is Friday. If we reach our goal, Mr. Baldwin will be growing a mustache for Movember!
Here is the link for donating:
1. Visit the website http://www.terryfox.org
2. Click on National School Run Day
3. Click on give to a student
4. On the new screen, type Edith Cavell Elementary into the search for a school entry box
5. Click on the Edith Cavell Elementary, Vancouver BC link below
6. Click Sponsor US and fill out the appropriate from (contact and payment info)
7. Click continue
Here are Dane and Anna speaking to the crowd:
Here is the link for donating:
1. Visit the website http://www.terryfox.org
2. Click on National School Run Day
3. Click on give to a student
4. On the new screen, type Edith Cavell Elementary into the search for a school entry box
5. Click on the Edith Cavell Elementary, Vancouver BC link below
6. Click Sponsor US and fill out the appropriate from (contact and payment info)
7. Click continue
Here are Dane and Anna speaking to the crowd:
Blog post by: Omri Levy and Steven Kahnert
Screen Time: What are the benefits and disadvantages?
We began our three-step write today. This is a process where students brainstorm, discuss, ask questions, share, and then write a first draft, multi-paragraph piece.
Our topic, "Screen time: benefits and drawbacks" certainly generated a lot of ideas.
Our topic, "Screen time: benefits and drawbacks" certainly generated a lot of ideas.
We asked deep questions about screen time and technology. Here is some of our thinking.
Tomorrow, students will have 45 minutes to write their pieces.
30 Wishes in Stones
We started our Writer's Workshop this week with wishing stones I brought back from Hornby Island. After some brainstorming and revising, each student contributed their favourite lines to this collaborative poem. Can you see it, hear it, and feel it? Which lines are yours?
30 Wishes in Stone by Division 1
Imagine a wishing stone
Footsteps on a pebble road
The pitter patter of rain hitting the shingles of a house
A frozen marble, smooth and round with an icy top layer
Like a jelly bean with a mouth
Or an egg about to crack.
The clack of a pot hitting the table
like lightning bolts striking across the midnight sky.
My stone sounds like a metronome
Like a beautiful solar system with shooting stars and lots
of light.
Like a gorgeous circle around a delightful sun
Like a grey skull with a white golden strip that cascades
from the ear to the back of the neck, sparkling in the sunlight.
Or a night sky with lightning
Imagine a wishing stone
With pale grey speckles dotting the surface
Like the first snowfall on Christmas Eve
A map with many roads going in different directions
Like a gray and white snakehead
A wet dog that just came out of the lake.
A starry sky that has been captured in stone.
Imagine a wishing stone
Like a pink jelly bean
Or a racetrack
Like rumbling thunder over the mountains, far and distant,
yet crying out to be heard.
Like an old pop can covered in spider’s strings
A knock on an aluminum door
A planet in space with rings of dust and meteors circling it
A galaxy swirling
Shaped like an internal organ.
Imagine a wishing stone
that feels cold and smooth like ice on the brink of cracking
That sounds like wood being sawn in half
Like smooth petrified oak
Like someone hammering a nail
My stone looks like a warped helmet
Looks like it has a green glow
And smells like it has been dropped from a pelican’s veiny
feet
Into a salty, rough, waterfall.
Imagine our stones
Thirty wishes whispering in palms.
Growth Mindset
Yesterday in class students began learning about the Growth Mindset. Here are some links that explain what that is:
Test your own Mindset with this:
Growth Mindset Quiz
Test your own Mindset with this:
Growth Mindset Quiz
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