Just a heads up to look for two permission forms coming home today.
One is for a great opportunity next week. Please read the cover letter for more information, but to summarize, the Grey Cup organizers, and the Ottawa Redblacks have teamed up to put on a school event called # Bring It In.
This title is a reference to the 'huddle' that is called in football, where players 'bring it in' to talk over plays, and plans for success. In this same way the event is focused on talking to youth about how to be successful in life. It features a range of motivational speakers who have been selected to excite and inspire the students. This event is next Wednesday, in the TD place arena. The Grey Cup won't likely be held in Ottawa for another decade, so it is exciting for our students to be able to be a part of the events surrounding this, and to be able to get an opportunity to share with the wonderful stories that will be shared. We are looking for volunteers who can come along, so please look for the forms and let me know if you can attend.
Another form coming home today is in relation to a trip that is almost as exciting as #Bring It In. This is a trip that all of the Junior students at Churchill are also going to take, as an extension of a story we are all looking at in our classes called Wonder. This is a story about a little boy named Auggie, who struggles with relationships with his peers due to being born with Treacher Collins Syndrome, which caused facial deformities since birth. Our class is reading the novel as a read aloud, and have done a couple of activities around the picture book this is based on. There is a link below to a Youtube video of this picture book being read aloud (it is titled We are All Wonders). This novel has been turned into a movie, and it is now playing in cinemas. Please see the cover letter and form for more details. We will also need volunteers for this trip. Needless to say, there will be a cover charge for volunteers to attend this one:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL8Yzkt8wlk
Thanks to our classmate Olivia, we have been looking at "Japanese Math" (we have also looked at the use of ""quotation marks in conversation, and also how modern vernacular uses them to highlight special words...). To say that the class was blown away by "Japanese Multiplication" would be an understatement. Those who are often brought to near tears by multiplication questions, were dancing in their seats and asking to do more work multiplying numbers! We were able to make concrete links between this and our Lattice multiplication method, but this is just so visual that it is exciting for everyone. Check out this video link....
https://www.facebook.com/didyouknowpage1/videos/vb.125223857585040/1549535068487238/?type=2&theater
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