Love 2 Groove day 3 video

Check out the moves our class threw down today!  We are loving to groove alright!

https://youtu.be/MuOruuyroXQ

New Online Math Site!

Room 211 is going to check out a new math service called Prodigy.  Using the username and password given out in class, click on the link below to get started.  I have assigned work on Data Relationships to follow along with what we have been doing with Graphing the past week.  This is a bit of an adventure you are about to go on, and it might be tough to figure out at times.  Try your best.
Have fun and explore!
https://prodigygame.com
Our class code is

Class Code: CDB8B6

Cooperative Play and Team Building

Some of the students were struggling with the challenges of fair play.  It seemed that, when faced with the opportunity to compete in team based activities, many were unable to demonstrate appropriate collaboration skills.  In other words, there was a lot of arguing and bickering going on, and some taunting.  We have shifted our focus away from games to develop locomotion and manipulation techniques solely to activities that revolve around team building skills.  There has been some great success in this area in recent days.  

Experience Vimy

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/overseas/first-world-war/france/vimy/experience-vimy

A Memorable Day of Remembrance

Friday was quite an event full day for the students of room 211. We hosted the remembrance Day sharing, which drew quite a crowd in our little gymnasium.

As hosts of the sharing we were responsible for organizing, setting up, and introducing the different acts during the sharing. In addition to this we presented our own mini performance during the sharing. Based on some questions we collected during math class, we presented some math related facts about remembrance day, and the role of Canadians in conflicts over the past 100 years.  Every single student in room 211 stepped up to the microphone either to introduce, or to present during our own class presentation. They all did a wonderful job, and received many warm complements after the sharing.  Even today I bumped into people who spoke very kindly about the job our class did yesterday at the Churchill remembrance Day event.

In the afternoon we travel down to the Westboro cenotaph, to participate in and watch the ceremony there. Again, the students from room 211 did themselves proud that only during our performance of three songs, with the ukulele and guitar clubs, but also as they observe the ceremony. Churchill has been the most regular School in attendance at this event over the past 12 years, and yesterday I believe we were the largest group in attandance.  Students were not only able to observe the event, but many of us got to rub elbows with local politicians, including Jim Watson who stopped to speak with us. Again the students did them selves and our community proud, and hopefully walked away with some memories that they will hold onto for a lifetime.

Room 308 Three Way Conference Schedule, November 15th,16th, 18th 2016

It takes a village to raise a child.  The Churchill experience relies on this ideology, with the idea of the triad being one of the pillars that our community is built on. This upcoming Tuesday and Wednesday evening, and Friday morning, we have a great chance for the three partners in your child’s educational journey (parents, student, and teacher) to check in on how things are going, and to plan for the road ahead.  

Progress reports are going home this week, but these are only a tool to identify areas of major concern, and not a true form for communicating what it is that your child is doing during their school days.  The three way conference will give you a chance to visit the classroom, and to check in with what has been going on so far in Room 211.  Students will be sharing some of their work, and we will chat about how things are going during the school day.  

Please click on the link below and sign up for a time that you, and your child, will be able to drop in for a little visit.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Dzz9ZQnqb-1HKbYtxBbwhckAaJXvIY9dNDa3mrRkAs/edit?usp=sharing

E Skeletons

http://www.eskeletons.org/