Today:  Students were true ambassadors of McMurrich as they respectfully bowled in their teams. We will be graphing and analyzing the data from their individual frames and team scores in the next few weeks.  A special thanks to our parents who volunteered with us today.  Go McMurrich Go!

 

 

 

 

 

SCIENCE:  We have introduced the Electricity Wiki today.  Begin collecting resources (books, articles) for your research focus group. 

POETRY: provide descriptive feedback to two choice poems on Voicethread Metaphor Poem and (STAR: positive including brief analysis of poem / WISH: next steps and why it would improve the poem) DUE Monday December 2nd

MUSIC: Visit the Music Blog and practice at home and refer to the rhythm above.  Try using pencils on a plastic container/chair.

SCIENCE:  We have introduced the Electricity Wiki today.  Begin collecting resources (books, articles) for your research focus group. 
- visit the Science Blog and refer to the guiding questions to respond to the videos

POETRY: provide descriptive feedback to two choice poems on Voicethread Metaphor Poem and (STAR: positive including brief analysis of poem / WISH: next steps and why it would improve the poem) DUE Monday December 2nd

MATH: peer descriptive feedback was provided today on Entrance Passes.  Use the feedback to bump up your math thinking.

- review your multiplication tables online tester and consider the inverse operation to check your answers

MUSIC: Visit the Music Blog and practice at home and refer to the rhythm above.  Try using pencils on a plastic container/chair.

SCIENCE:  We have introduced the Electricity Wiki today.  Begin collecting resources (books, articles) for your research focus group.  Sign into your gmail and accept the invitation into your energy science wiki; ensure that you only use your first name when asked to give a username.

POETRY: provide descriptive feedback to two choice poems on Voicethread Metaphor Poem and (STAR: positive including brief analysis of poem / WISH: next steps and why it would improve the poem) DUE Monday December 2nd

MATH: peer descriptive feedback was provided today on Entrance Passes.  Use the feedback to bump up your math thinking.

- review your multiplication tables online tester and consider the inverse operation to check your answers

MUSIC: Visit the Music Blog and practice at home and refer to the rhythm above.  Try using pencils on a plastic container/chair.

SCIENCE:  Share your thoughts in padlet: What do you think you know about energy?

POETRY: continue to update our Poetry Portfolio in kidblog; revisit Voicethread Metaphor Poem and provide descriptive feedback to a peer that has been assigned to you (STAR: positive including brief analysis of poem / WISH: next steps and why it would the improve poem) PAST DUE

WRITING:  Biography on a Canadian War Hero; continue to organize your research notes on timetoast.com PAST DUE  

MATH: review your multiplication tables online tester and consider the inverse operation to check your answers

MUSIC: Visit the Music Blog and practice at home and refer to the rhythm above.  Try using pencils on a plastic container

Popplet:  sign up for a Popplet account using your student gmail, invite your partner to join you and co-create a mind map of literature, using images of books to support each area.  Include a short description of each focus using your own words. PAST DUE

POETRY: continue to update our Poetry Portfolio in kidblog; revisit Voicethread Metaphor Poem and provide descriptive feedback to a peer that has been assigned to you (STAR: positive including brief analysis of poem / WISH: next steps and why it would the improve poem) PAST DUE

WRITING:  Biography on a Canadian War Hero; continue to organize your research notes on timetoast.com DUE Tuesday November 26th.  

MATH: review your multiplication tables online tester and consider the inverse operation to check your answers

MUSIC: Visit the Music Blog and practice at home and refer to the rhythm above.  Try using pencils on a plastic container

Popplet:  sign up for a Popplet account using your student gmail, invite your partner to join you and co-create a mind map of literature, using images of books to support each area.  Include a short description of each focus using your own words. PAST DUE

Popplet:  sign up for a Popplet account using your student gmail, invite your partner to join you and co-create a mind map of literature, using images of books to support each area.  Include a short description of each focus using your own words. Printing the mind map on Monday.

POETRY: continue to update our Poetry Portfolio in kidblog; revisit Voicethread Metaphor Poem and provide descriptive feedback to a peer that has been assigned to you (STAR: positive including brief analysis of poem / WISH: next steps and why it would the improve poem) DUE Monday November 25th.

WRITING:  Biography on a Canadian War Hero; continue to organize your research notes on timetoast.com DUE Tuesday November 26th.  

MATH: review your multiplication tables online tester and consider the inverse operation to check your answers

MUSIC: Visit the Music Blog and practice at home and refer to the rhythm above.  Try using pencils on a plastic container

Preparing for the Winter Concert on Wednesday December 18th.
Practice at home and refer to the rhythm above.  Try using pencils on a plastic container.

Popplet:  sign up for a Popplet account using your student gmail, invite your partner to join you and co-create a mind map of literature, using images of books to support each area.  Include a short description of each focus using your own words. Due Friday November 22nd.

POETRY: continue to update our Poetry Portfolio in kidblog; revisit Voicethread Metaphor Poem and provide descriptive feedback to a peer that has been assigned to you (STAR: positive including brief analysis of poem / WISH: next steps and why it would the improve poem) DUE Monday

WRITING:  Biography on a Canadian War Hero; continue to organize your research notes on timetoast.com 

MATH: review your multiplication tables online tester and consider the inverse operation to check your answers

DANCE Reflection: Refer to the guiding questions, PAST DUE

Popplet:  sign up for a Popplet account using your student gmail, invite your partner to join you and co-create a mind map of literature, using images of books to support each area.  Include a short description of each focus using your own words. Due Friday November 22nd.

POETRY: continue to update our Poetry Portfolio in kidblog; revisit Voicethread Metaphor Poem and provide descriptive feedback to a peer that has been assigned to you (STAR: positive including brief analysis of poem / WISH: next steps and why it would the improve poem) DUE Monday

WRITING:  Biography on a Canadian War Hero; continue to organize your research notes on timetoast.com 

MATH: complete the Entrance Pass for tomorrow, focussing on relationships between a triangle, rectangle and parallelograms.

- review your multiplication tables online tester and consider the inverse operation to check your answers

DANCE Reflection: Refer to the guiding questions, Due Thursday November 21st

Popplet:  sign up for a Popplet account using your student gmail, invite your partner to join you and co-create a mind map of literature, using images of books to support each area.  Include a short description of each focus using your own words. Due Friday November 22nd.

POETRY: continue to update our Poetry Portfolio in kidblog (pollination poem, remembrance day poeom); revisit Voicethread and ensure that you have shared our Metaphor poem and recorded itPAST DUE (peer feedback will be provided this week)

WRITING:  Biography on a Canadian War Hero; continue to organize your research notes on timetoast.com 

MATH: review your multiplication tables online tester and consider the inverse operation to check your answers

DANCE Reflection: Refer to the guiding questions, Due Thursday November 21st

Please come out to attend our next School Council meeting. 
When: Tuesday, November 19th, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Where: School Library
Free child care will be available in room 103 (across from the office).

Items to be discussed include:

Principal's Update 

Committee Updates

·         Fundraising

·         Garden Update - Grants Progress etc

·         Outreach

Communication Discussion - What type of information are parents looking for?  What is the preferred medium and frequency?

This is a great opportunity to connect with other parents, learn more about what is going on at your child's school, and discover how you can get more involved.

Everyone is welcome. We look forward to seeing you there!

Dear McMurrich Parents,

Our third annual parent handbook is here!
The McMurrich Parent Handbook contains:
-    key dates (including a full list of PA days - no more surprises!);
-    pick up/drop off times;
-    a list of staff and where to find them;
-    links to onsite daycare options;
-    how to access our library collection from home;
-    and more...
Being "green", for easy reference and for ease of sharing, a copy of the e-handbook with limited paper copies available in the main office) will be posted on our parent blog @ http://mcmurrichschool.blogspot.ca/  soon.

Parents helping Parents.

Sincerely,
McMurrich Handbook Committee

Popplet:  sign up for a Popplet account using your student gmail, invite your partner to join you and co-create a mind map of literature, using images of books to support each area.  Include a short description of each focus using your own words. Due Friday November 22nd.

POETRY: continue to update our Poetry Portfolio in kidblog (pollination poem, remembrance day poeom); revisit Voicethread and ensure that you have shared our Metaphor poem and recorded it PAST DUE (peer feedback will be provided this week)

WRITING:  Biography on a Canadian War Hero; organize your research notes on timetoast.com 

MATH: complete the Entrance Pass focussing on the relationship of Perimeter & Area of a Parallelogram and Triangle Due Tomorrow

DANCE Reflection: Due Thursday November 21st
PART 1:

Describe how your group worked as a team while preparing for the dance?

PART 2:

What elements of dance did you work on?
What  areas did your group focus on?
Describe your movement related to each area and how it related to the overall movement of the dance piece.
PART 3:

Describe how your chosen movements helped to convey a message and related to the theme of the music.

It was a pleasure to meet with many of the parents during parent/teacher interviews on Thursday and Friday.  I look forward to meeting with others throughout next week.  Students will be asked to reflect on their Progress Report next week and to consider the following (as these were a common trend in our class community of learners):

• Daily reading at home and at school
• In class and at home task completion (both online and paper & pencil tasks)
• Self Advocating
• Contributing member of your own learning (and the learning of others)

Progress Reports have been sent home.  If a second copy is required, please let me know so that I can provide one for the parent(s).  I look forward to meeting with everyone over the next few days  :o)

WRITING:  Biography on a Canadian War Hero; organize your research notes on timetoast.com Due Monday November 18th

SCIENCE: complete the graphic organizer considering a perspective on the scenario of developing Cedarvale Park.  PAST DUE

POETRY: update your Poetry Portfolio in kidblog (Pollination Poem)

Progress Reports have been sent home.  If a second copy is required, please let me know so that I can provide one for the parent(s).  I look forward to meeting with everyone over the next few days  :o)

WRITING:  Biography on a Canadian War Hero; organize your research notes on timetoast.com Due Monday November 18th

MATH: Relating Triangles and Parallelograms

SCIENCE: complete the graphic organizer considering a perspective on the scenario of developing Cedarvale Park.  PAST DUE

POETRY: update your Poetry Portfolio in kidblog

WRITING:  continue to research information for the Biography you are writing on a Canadian War Hero.  Refer to previous posts for details on this task (both in-class and at-home time is needed).  First draft DUE Wednesday November 13th.

MATH: Entrance Pass sheet on parallelograms DUE tomorrow

SCIENCE: complete the graphic organizer considering a perspective on the scenario of developing Cedarvale Park.  DUE Wednesday November 13th.

POETRY: update your Poetry Portfolio in kidblog

Remembrance Day assembly today was emotional and a moving experience.  Our school community came together to take a few moments to recognize and be thankful for all of the sacrifices made by the many children, women and men in the past, present and future.

WRITING:  continue to research information for the Biography you are writing on a Canadian War Hero.  Refer to previous posts for details on this task (both in-class and at-home time is needed).  First draft DUE Wednesday November 13th.

MATH: Entrance Pass sheet pool challenge PAST DUE

SCIENCE: complete the graphic organizer considering a perspective on the scenario of developing Cedarvale Park.  DUE Wednesday November 13th.

POETRY: update your Poetry Portfolio in kidblog

WE SCARE HUNGER: 
We have almost meet our school community goal this year, in collecting non-perishable food items to donate to the Second Harvest Food Bank.  November 12th is the last day to help make a difference in our local community through this initiative organized by McMurrich students.

Remembrance Day song  
SONG: Listen to the song and practice singing along

Peaceful River  (Bolded parts-Junior Students)

There is a peaceful river

deep within my soul,

filing my world with hope 

and making my spirit whole.

Peace is the gift I offer,

peace that we all can know 

pass it along and let the river flow.

I've got peace like a river, I've 

got peace like a river.

I've got peace like a river in my soul.

REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY:
All parents/guardians are invited for 10:30 for the Remembrance Day Cermony
Remembrance Day: dress for success for our short movement piece Monday morning.

WRITING:  continue to research information for the Biography you are writing on a Canadian War Hero.  Refer to previous posts for details on this task (both in-class and at-home time is needed).  First draft DUE Wednesday November 13th.


MATH: complete the Entrance Pass sheet for Monday November 11th.  Consider the strategies discussed in-class with your partners to bump up your independent response of the pool challenge.

Dance Groups:  Remembrance Day background music (30 secs per group)

- refer to the Elements of Dance template/consider which elements to included in your groups' routine.

POETRY: Remembrance Day Poems have been co-constructed online using google docs during class time.  Home time is needed to complete the poem for Monday November 11th.

WE SCARE HUNGER: 
We have almost meet our school community goal this year, in collecting non-perishable food items to donate to the Second Harvest Food Bank.  November 12th is the last day to help make a difference in our local community through this initiative organized by McMurrich students.

Remembrance Day song  
SONG: Listen to the song and practice singing along

Peaceful River  (Bolded parts-Junior Students)

There is a peaceful river

deep within my soul,

filing my world with hope 

and making my spirit whole.

Peace is the gift I offer,

peace that we all can know 

pass it along and let the river flow.

I've got peace like a river, I've 

got peace like a river.

I've got peace like a river in my soul.

Today:  Students were true ambassadors of McMurrich while we were guests at the Yorkdale Apple store.  They respectfully and purposefully collaborated in partners using iMovie to create a PSA on a local/global issue that concerns them & how they want to bring about change in our communities.  Thank you to our parent volunteers, we couldn't have been successful today without your support.




WRITING:  continue to research information for the Biography you are writing on a Canadian War Hero.  Refer to previous posts for details on this task (both in-class and at-home time is needed)

Dance Groups:  Remembrance Day background music (30 secs per group)

- refer to the Elements of Dance template/consider which elements to included in your groups' routine.

POETRY: 

• TASK 1: Remembrance Day Poems have been co-constructed online using google docs during class time.  Home time is needed to complete the poem for Monday November 11th.
• TASK 2: Let's create a thread bringing together your "My Best Friend is a Metaphor" poem on Voicethread PAST DUE

• TASK 3: - consider the class feedback received and type your second draft of the Beauty of Pollination Poem PAST DUE

REMEBRANCE DAY (CANADIAN WAR HERO)
What is a biography?
NOTE: Step 1 to 3 is due Wednesday November 13th. Step 4 is due Monday November 18th.

Step 1:

Record the name of 2 Canadian Heroes that you would like to study and learn more about.  

Consider the following timeline when looking up different Canadian Heros (both men and women)

*  1850-1900

*  1900-1950

*  1950-2000

*  2000-2013

Step 2:
Generate jot notes on your Canadian War Hero which you will use to write a biography on your selected military hero.
Use the link above to help guide your writing.

Step 3:*  Guiding research ideas
      1.  Birth, Death
      2.  Major life events
      3.  Major/significant event that took place in their military life

Step 4:   
      Once you have finalized your research consider the following and answer
      1.  Why do you think he/she is a war hero?
      2.  Describe the contribution(s) he/she made to Canada.

Both in-class and at-home time is needed effectively to complete your biography.