Friday, September 10 & COVID-19 Screening information

Over the next week, I plan to set up my Brightspace "shell" for the 20-21 school year and I will use this page, for now, as a way to communicate some important information.  If I can obtain access, we will take a look at my 20-21 shell and how I used it to format the subjects we will be learning this term.

Here is some critical information on Covid-19 screening posted up on the TDSB website and we will read through this together today.

A question was asked about the COVID-19 app and I forgot to answer it.  You will have to go to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store to obtain it:

  

Here is a shot of the 3 words describing some of your experiences of your COVID-19 story.  If you haven't done so, I would like you to put your name on the Post-It note.  If you still need to complete it, please obtain a Post-It.

Here are the Coat of Arms contributions, so far.  If you have not completed it, please make sure you have and hand it in and ensure your name is on your work of Art.  Thanks.

Looking ahead:  High School

I did mention that discussion around High Schools would start soon.  Honestly, it is better to start earlier, rather than later.  Here is the link to the Open Houses for the schools across the TDSB.  If you have a question or questions about a specific school, please ask me:

Click on the above image to access this site

Letter to June Self (first steps)

This lesson will continue on Monday.  For now, these 2 slides will be helpful to begin the brainstorming for your letter:

possible approaches to Brainstorming/pre-writing might look like:

We will return to this on Monday and formalize the next steps for this item of Writing.  This is homework and due on Monday.

Math Social Emotional Learning exercise (SEL)

The Social Emotional strand of Math was only introduced last year to the Elementary curriculum.  It is designed to tap into the range of emotions and thinking that may be present, when they are engaged with Mathematics.  This might include:

- being aware of methods and strategies for problem solving

-developing the ability to be reflective and make adjustments

- developing the skills to be resilient in the face of challenges

- managing emotions when becoming frustrated or feeling overwhelmed

Today, the Students were tasked with developing a chart with the 4 headings you see in the preceding photograph that relate to where they see Math, how they feel about Math, where a measure of Success has been, and where a struggle has been noted.  I will be reading their entries and returning them after.  This is homework and due on Monday.