Happy Friday!

Just a quick share before the weekend.  Days are busy, but full of adventures in room 211.  We checked out these two videos this week.  The first is a classic, and we used it to write a summary.  The second features Wangari, a real life character from a story we also summarized in our notebooks this week.  Ask your child about Wangari's story.  This is a great African folk tale she shares, which she used as inspiration for her own personal journey in life.
Take care!

Science Links October 2016

Links to info on Human Body Systems

http://www.livescience.com/37009-human-body.html

https://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/lc/humanbio/5/lchb5_1a.html

Links to Habitat info
 ontario species at risk

Aquatic Canadian Biomes

Geoheritage Ottawa Event this weekend.

Explore Geoheritage Day Sunday, October 16^th
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Come join us at your local parks and green spaces for our 8^th annual Geoheritage Day! 

You will have the chance to learn how geological processes have shaped the regional landscape, given us a glimpse into past environments and life forms and provided resources for our use. Volunteers from Carleton University’s Department of Earth Sciences and the Ottawa-Gatineau Geoheritage Project will be on hand to explain what there is to see and how each site fits into the local geological history.

Come out and spend the day with some remarkable rocks, minerals and fossils!

http://earthsci.carleton.ca/outreach/explore-geoheritage-day

Regards,

Sarah Adams

Undergraduate Administrator 
Department of Earth Sciences

2115 Herzberg Laboratories

Carleton University

1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa,  Ontario  K1S 5B6

Tel: 613-520-5633

E-mail: Sarah.Adamsaston@carleton.ca

Website: http://earthsci.carleton.ca/

Words to Live By

These quotes were chosen by the students of Room 211 to inspire us as we move through this year...

Area model multiplication

Ask your child how to multiply using the area model.  We started this using base ten blocks, and have worked into a paper diagram version.  The good news is that almost everyone has had success with this approach so far!

Math buddies week two

Photo Day Tomorrow

Today ended in a whirlwind with us in the computer lab trying to work out some kinks with computer logins, and setting up drive accounts.  As a result, we did not do agendas at dismissal, but if we had, we would have made note of two things.  First, tomorrow is PHOTO DAY.  Secondly, there are still outstanding Terry Fox forms that need to be returned.  The pledge forms don't need to come back until after the run, but we need the forms in by Wednesday so we know that everyone will be able to make the trip for the run.  

There have been some issues on the playground with Pokemon cards.  Before this becomes a widespread problem I will be urging the students in our class to not bring these to school, or if they do, to remember that they are not for trading, or giving away.  They can look at them, play with them, but each student returns home at day's end with what they came with.  

Finally, please let me know if you are going to be able to come along on our trip to the park for phys ed on Thursday.  We had many parents volunteer on the forms, but last week we almost had to cancel the trip due to volunteers not showing up for the walk to McKellar.  That would have been too bad as the trip was really memorable, and a good team builder (we put on over 6 km with the walking and running according to my phone's tracker!).  

The class is doing very well, and people are working hard to come together as a community.  We are working daily on how to be active listeners during discussion times, but some of us are having troubles with letting others share their thinking.  It is an ongoing project, and we will improve on this daily I am certain.

I hope to see many of you out for the Terry Fox event Friday!  Our class will be leaving early to help set it up, so if you are coming along, please be at the school for 10:40 at the latest, as we will leave right at that time (hopefully).

Regards, Ray