Friday Nov 30

here is the pic of the day for the News Article that we will write.

Wednesday and Thursday Nov 29

We did some cool stuff in class on Wednesday

Thursday we will be doing the W5H analysis on this story. (Its the Leaf's story from last night)

I'm doing Listeracy training today - I'm in the building, but you should be good to go.

Tuesday Nov 27

Here is what we came up with; I'm hoping no one ever steals my ideas ... actually OUR ideas for this article ..... ;)

Grade Eleven students at Jefferson High School were outside yesterday digging up the lawn. They didn’t get in trouble because they were doing a good deed by planting trees and other plant material. They planted ferns and maple trees in the front lawn and petunias in the back area.

“Teamwork makes the dream work,” said Principal Holly Whatttshername. She was happy to see the students took ownership to make their school look green friendly.

When asked, student Gwendolyn Sears said that she “Learned a lot outside today. Being out of the classroom and just working for the school was a great thing to do.”

Monday Nov 26

We continued working on our W5H forms when looking at newspaper articles.

We were going to go and read an opinion piece today, but everyone was low.

We will work on that stuff tomorrow!

Thursday and Friday Nov 23

Man ... Thursday was a football game that most of the school attended and Friday was the PD or PA Day ... I had to go to Corpus and learn about teaching stuff.

It was pretty cool.

In any case, we'll get back at it on Monday.

Wed Nov 21

Here is the pic for the W5H for today:

Tuesday Nov 20

Well, we did a fair amount of

BBBBBBLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNKKKK!

...sigh.

reading today in class. We did have most of the class leave at 9:15 to go on the

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.... sigh

Google trip.

But we all got some writing in to the teacher before the class ended.

Monday Nov 19

I usually don't put pictures of myself on here, but here is one from class today

This is going to be a wild week. Belt yourself in.

Today we read a story and the W5H chart for it. I think my students are getting the hang of doing that in class.

The next thing we did was to take this pic and make up the W5H items for it.

We are awesome!

Thursday and Friday Nov 15

We did an article on the snow that is coming

The snow came ... there was no snow day.

All good.

Have an awesome weekend - next week is a three day week!

Wed Nov 14

So ... it was Take Your Kids To Work Day.

This period was pretty laid back - we read the Toronto Star and commented on the news that we read to each other.

Tuesday Nov 13

We were supposed to read about the Raptors, but we read about the TTC today.

Just as we started, there was an assembly in the gym about the drive for Christmas.

So ... we got our stuff done and then I got a chance to show everyone their mark for midterm

It was squishy, but we got it done.

Mon Nov 12

So ... today I got a chance to interview everyone about Tuesdays with Morrie and finally finsh that unit.

I did ask everyone to hand in their Journal for that unit, too.

I will be showing marks to students tomorrow.

We also read about how well the Raptors did over the weekend and starting working our way through getting more literate!

Friday Nov 9

Yup, it was a rather odd day. 

In any case, we continued to read news articles from the Toronto Star together as a class.

It was a slow news day, and so we read about how well the Leafs are going to do tonight against the New Jersey Devils.

Wed and Thurs Nov 8

It's been a tough walk through this week, but we are almost at Saturday.

Wednesday we finished the book and Monday was set as the due date for Part 2 of TWM to be handed in.

On Thursday we looked at a Newspaper Article and read a few of them from the Toronto Star ... we nned to be able to do one for the OSSLT ... I thought it would be cool to read an article together and talk about the content of it.

On to Friday!

Monday and Tuesday Nov 6

So ... today will be another odd day.

In Period 2 the Grade Nines will be meeting with their Houses.

In any case, we read to page 51 ... almost done... almost.

We also mentioned this video in class, too

Fri Nov 2

Today we read for a bit, but then we went to a presentation by the Halton Regional Police Service.

It was ... wow.

Thurs Nov 1

Well, I'm doing this one late - on Friday morning at about 8:20 am.

Ah well. Last night was Parent Teacher Night.

Yesterday we read to page 47 and got some of Morrie's sayings up on the wall in Room 203.

Looks awesome!