Schlockey Project

Students in room 207 worked together to build three new schlocky boards for the playground. It was a fantastic experience for everyone involved. Thank you to Kellen, Hayden’s dad, for coming in and working with us (as well as donating all of the materials!).

If anyone comes across wooden hockey sticks, or old broken ones without the blades, we need a supply of them to keep us playing through the winter.

Reading buddy fun.

Celebrating the season with our reading buddies.  They shared a French play with us.

Comma Confusion

We are looking at the comma this week.  Here are some fun activities that we may use in class when we get time between other tasks...

Comma Slideshow from Class
http://msdavisedu.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/5/2/12526679/review_eats_shoots_and_leaves.pptx

Comma Space Game
http://www.thelearningodyssey.com/sample_act/34lang_confusion.html

Take a Comma Test
http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/punctuation_comma/quiz2140.html

A big old punctuation activity...try if you dare!
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/punctuation/index_pre.html

Properties of Matter vids...

What is Matter video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELchwUIlWa8

What is an Atom video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNF3_30lUE

Solution vs Mixture video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tck943uH2o

Properties....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlSemv2fLN8

Remembrance Day

Churchill takes time to remember.  Our class did a wonderful job of hosting the sharing.  Every student had a talking piece either introducing someone or presenting with our class.  Then the whole junior division walked to the Westboro cenotaph for the 2pm ceremony.  School of rock performed the two songs from our earlier sharing, to a lot of attention from the assembled crowd.  Students were very well behaved, despite the cold. 

Math Freaks Came Out!!!

Tonight was a huge success!  Thanks to all those who helped prepare all week long, and those who came out to run stations.  We hosted over 50 families tonight, and everyone had a fantastic time.  It was great to see such a turnout, and to see so many people having fun with Math with their families.  Huge thanks to our custodial staff, and everyone on the third floor who gave up their rooms so we could move in for the night!  There will be some tired trick or treaters tomorrow, but I am sure that the prospect of Halloween will keep them going.

Funny Epitaphs for Halloween

We will be using some of these for a language activity.  Check them out.  We won't use any with guns or overt violent statements.
https://allwording.com/halloween-tombstone-sayings/

http://www.all-about-halloween.com/epitaphs.html

https://www.hauntyourhome.com/howto/HowToTombstoneNames.htm

http://www.hauntedbay.com/thelab/epitaphs.shtml

Election Day!!!

Today we will be looking closely at the federal election.  As part of Student Vote Canada our class will be voting for their choice to represent Ottawa Center in the next federal parliament.  The ballots we will use were provided by Elections Canada, and will be identical to those used in our local riding (apart from the Student Vote logo) so you might want to ask your child what their opinion is regarding the candidates in this election.  We have looked at the big three parties in recent weeks, and discussed the Green and a few other parties.  Today we will look at all of our local candidates, their parties, and what they stand for before we go and make our votes.

7 things voters in Ottawa-Gatineau need to know today...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/7-things-ottawa-federal-election-vote-2019-1.5324869

Party Platforms
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2019/party-platforms/


Poll Tracker
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/

5 Things to know about the Canadian Federal Election
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49490396

Canada's Registered Political Parties
https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e#a1

Our trip to Parliament!

Our trip to Parliament Hill did not go off a smoothly as we had planned, in terms of the OC transpo portion, but it was a fantastic day in the end.  The LRT was not working when we arrived there by bus, so we were just taken right downtown by bus.  We visited the new House of Commons, located in the old courtyard of the west block of parliament, and then the new Senate Chambers in the old central train station, across from Chateau Laurier.  Both were very informative tours, but I think we were most impressed by the West Block site.  In the end, our group had a lot of firsts.  We were the first Churchill class to visit the new House, and the new Senate, and we were the first Churchill class to ride on the LRT when we caught it coming back.  There were a lot of kilometers put on over the course of the day, and I am sure that everyone slept well that night!