Monday, March 23, 2015

Welcome back everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your March break. As you probably know, the students have finished letter writing in our Language Program as they completed their culminating task of writing a letter and sending off Flat Stanley.  Please note that the letters have been sent, so check with the recipient to see if they have received it. The students have also finished their brief unit on Symmetry.  We will review once more sometime this week.  However, we will begin our new unit: Time.  The students are expected to know to the hour and half our.  As for Science and Social Studies, the students continue to work on the project.  This project is based on the teaching methods I have learned from the numerous workshops I have taken this year.  It is an initiative that TDSB is implementing which is based on more of an inquiry based approach to learning.  It helps students to have a deeper understanding of the topic and begin to solve problems using different perspectives. Already, they have learned the strategy "Pro-Pro", which is looking at opposing views by only analyze the positives of both and creating a third model based on the positives of both.