tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68095777469742846062024-03-13T15:07:35.902-04:00The JAGLA TimesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-9254897230417973072015-06-19T09:28:00.003-04:002015-06-19T09:28:40.985-04:00School Year End Post <h2>
Reflecting on our year:</h2>
This year we welcomed new grade 4's 5's and 6's to our class. They added new experiences and points of view to our school. Miss Colby and Miss Hughes spent a lot of time trying to get the class to stay on topic, since all the students in the class are friends and really like to talk. This year, we learned a lot of new information. We feel like we learned a lot about Math (which some students have not fully appreciated yet) and French. Many students like French. This year was more challenging than any of the other years we have been at the JAGLA. Below are just some of the things we did this year.<br />
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Things we organized for the school:</h3>
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<li>Supported the grade 7/8 Food Drive</li>
<li>Clothing drive for GoodWill</li>
<li>Lemon-aid stand for Because I am a Girl</li>
<li>PanAm Games Day</li>
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We volunteered and participated in</h3>
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<li>Terry Fox Run</li>
<li>Office helpers</li>
<li>Kinder helpers</li>
<li>Library helpers</li>
<li>Winter concert (T'was the Night before Christmas)</li>
<li>STEM Fair</li>
<li>Parenting centre</li>
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We went on trips:</h3>
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<li>We Day</li>
<li>Baking with mentors</li>
<li>Science Centre field trip</li>
<li>Forest Valley</li>
<li>Kearny</li>
<li>Track and Field</li>
<li>Girls in STEM at U of T</li>
<li>Taking IT Global</li>
<li>Mandarin</li>
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Class Projects:</h3>
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<li>Writing portfolios</li>
<li>Homeless report</li>
<li>Book Museum</li>
<li>Science project: Kites, biodiversity, machines...</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-46927593603992936912015-06-04T09:24:00.001-04:002015-06-04T09:24:20.541-04:00Urban Voices<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Urban voices</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In February, many students submitted poetry to the Urban Voices poetry contest held by the English Language and Literacy Department of the Toronto District School Board. Only one student, in grade 4, won a spot in the poetry anthology book. She will be reading her poem, <i>I am a girl</i>, tonight, Thursday June 4th, at the Scarborough Civic Centre. Her poem is published below. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am a girl.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am a girl who has a right to education.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who has a right to freedom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who has a voice</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am a girl who will strive to get anything accomplished.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We are girls who will do anything to be who we are.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They are girls</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They are girls who don’t have a right to education.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who have no right to freedom</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who have no voice</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They are girls who strive for freedom</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They are girls who will do anything to be who they are.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~R</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Track and Field day: June 8th at Birchmount Stadium</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Grade 6 luncheon: June 16th at the Mandarin</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">PanAm Day: June 17th</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Last day of school: June 25th </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-72137843181160411012015-05-29T10:03:00.004-04:002015-05-29T10:03:43.202-04:00Winding Down?Often people think that June in school means that we are winding down the years activities, but that is not true! We are still moving full steam ahead.<br />
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Here are some of the events we are planning and attending in June:<br />
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<u>Track and Field:</u> Almost half the class is on the track and field team. They are training during morning recess and lunch. The track and field day is on June 8th at Birchmount Stadium.<br />
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<u>Parenting Centre:</u> Some students want to take on more responsibility and further develop their leadership skills by volunteering in the Parenting Centre. We are creating a schedule for students who want to volunteer during morning recess. Students will volunteer Monday to Thursday until the end of the school year.<br />
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We are so excited for June!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-3071017576431576372015-05-21T09:59:00.002-04:002015-05-21T09:59:59.841-04:00A Day Outside<u>Wednesday May 20th</u><br />
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It was a cold and windy morning, but the sun came out, and warmed us up a bit. We spent almost the whole morning outside participating in our schools' track and field day. Many students had fun at the Just Dance station; which wasn't a real track and field event, but helps us keep warmed up for the others. It was hard work and it was difficult to keep warm outside.<br />
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<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uO1TDqseQp0/VV3jyv9Md7I/AAAAAAAABEc/fxrQmqDdMxQ/s1600/IMG_20150520_131200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uO1TDqseQp0/VV3jyv9Md7I/AAAAAAAABEc/fxrQmqDdMxQ/s200/IMG_20150520_131200.jpg" width="200" /></a>In the afternoon it had warmed up quite a bit, but it was still really windy. This was a challenge because we had Visual Arts outdoors. Our Art period was inspired by Jackson Pollack, who we have been learning about in our Abstract Art unit. Some students dripped paint onto their 'canvases' with their hands, while others flung paint onto their work with elastic bands, and paint brushes. Many used more than one method of getting paint onto their paper. It was very messy, and the wind made it difficult to keep our art in one place. Although one student said that her after her painting was flipped over onto the grass it actually improved her artwork.<br />
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<u>Upcoming events</u><br />
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<li>School based Pan Am Games on June 18th</li>
<li>Track and Field day (TBA)</li>
<li>Class Pot Luck lunch June 25th </li>
<li>EQAO has been postponed</li>
<li>5 weeks left of school</li>
<li>Last day of school for students is June 25th</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-77147366640537302232015-05-13T09:27:00.002-04:002015-05-13T09:27:36.401-04:00The Busy Month of May<br />
<u>STEM fair and Novel Museum</u><br />
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We worked very hard last week to prepare for our STEM fair and Novel Museums. Two groups from our class are finalist for a STEM fair prize. Their inquiries were: "Why do people like chocolate?", and "What would happen if there was no gravity?" After the STEM fair we set up our Novel Museum outside of the library for the whole school to see. Some of our classmates were disappointed that their novel museums were vandalized by other students. A small number of students from the building took artifacts from the displays; mostly food items, and some of the artifact descriptions.<br />
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<u>Science: Kites, Bridges and Toys</u><br />
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We are coming to the end of our units on Force. The grade 6's are designing, building and testing kites. The grade 5's are going to begin designing bridges today, and will be testing them next week. The grade 4's are almost ready to begin work on making a wind up toy. Almost everyone is excited to be building something.<br />
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<u>Upcoming Events</u><br />
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<li>Sports Day and Pizza lunch May 15th: wear your favourite team/sports gear </li>
<li>Track and Field day May 20th </li>
<li>Taking IT Global presentation May 21st (some students will be participating in sharing our work around child marriage)</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-91896016430045365982015-04-22T09:55:00.001-04:002015-04-22T09:55:43.801-04:00Girl Issues: Child Marriage<span style="font-size: x-small;">*Reminder: these posts are written by the class as a shared writing activity. The words and sentence structures are their own thoughts. (They impress me all the time.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Girl Issues</span></h2>
We have been working on a big project for a teacher program called <a href="https://www.tigweb.org/">TakingITGlobal</a>. This project focus' on social justice. As a class we decided to take action on a problem which is occurring in some parts of the world. The problem we are addressing is child marriage. Child marriage is when children, mostly girls, are married at a young age. As a result girls are being made to drop out of school, and have babies when they are still children themselves. Many girls die during childbirth or develop health problems such as Fistula. Fistula is a problem with your bladder. See video below from becauseiamagirl.ca.<br />
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We are holding a pink lemon-aid fundraiser; the money raised will go to the <a href="http://becauseiamagirl.ca/">Because I Am a Girl</a> organization. The assembly will inform the school about child marriage, and the fundraiser. There is a group writing and producing a PSA (public service announcement) about this issue. They are hoping to show it at our assembly, but are not sure it will be ready in time. There is a group that has written a pitch for our action to share with teachers to inform them about what our class is doing and how our class is taking initiative.<br />
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On April 16th we participated in the Free the Children Day of Silence. We wrote sense poetry about silence, and posted them on a wall outside of our classroom. In the afternoon we watched <a href="http://girlrising.com/">Girl Rising</a>. Two chapters in the film were about child marriage. It really surprised some students how un-affectionate some parents could be to their daughters. <br />
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We have had a busy March. It started with a trip to Kearney, and ended with our trip to Forest Valley. The grade 4/5/6's all finish large and small science projects. The grade 4's researched and designed a habitat for a Giant Sea Bass. The grade 5's researched the effects of radiation on the body, and the grade 6's designed and built a waterfront area that meets the needs of the community and promotes biodiversity.<br />
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All month we worked on organizing our clothing drive. We collected 2.5 bins worth of clothes. We feel a bit disappointed because it did not meet our expectations. We were hoping that we would get more donations from students and the neighbourhood. We think that next time we try something like this, we might collect more if we make it a competition. Although we did not collect as much as we wanted, we are glad that we were able to support Goodwill in a small way. <br />
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Upcoming Events:<br />
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<li>Earth hour Saturday March 28th from 8:30-9:30 pm</li>
<li>EQAO Parent Information Night April 1st</li>
<li>International Day of Pink Wednesday April 8th</li>
<li>'We are Silent' April 16th </li>
<li>Science and STEM fair in May</li>
<li>EQAO is in the end of May</li>
<li>PanAm school event in June</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-66413829406661535262015-03-01T16:17:00.001-05:002015-03-01T16:19:34.888-05:00Day Three Kearney<p dir="ltr">Legs hurting eyes burning.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Today was our all day ski trip. Students were challenged by going up, and down hills on skis. We had a great outdoor lunch, taking turns roasting hot dogs over a camp fire, after enjoying a cup delicious of hot chocolate. The camp fire smoke got in our eyes, but we still had fun.<br></p>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some things about the clothing drive:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="line-height: 22.0799999237061px;">You can donate from the time 8:00 am to 3:10 pm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anything that is ripped you’re not allowed to donate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goodwill will sell the clothes to people, then use the money to pay for employment training for people who have barriers to employment. Please donate clothes to our clothing drive. We would really appreciate it, and so will Goodwill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This post was prepared by the Grade 4 students.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-75839134317076303052015-02-18T08:35:00.003-05:002015-02-18T08:35:32.050-05:00Google SiteParents! We have just made a Google site for our class. It has information about curriculum, links to website students can access at home to practice skills, and other resources. Please visit and feel free to leave feedback about what content you would like to see added.<br />
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<a href="https://sites.google.com/a/tdsb.on.ca/ms-colby-s-class">https://sites.google.com/a/tdsb.on.ca/ms-colby-s-class</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-58092259703013854342015-02-09T20:40:00.000-05:002015-02-09T20:41:48.607-05:00Survey Results: Homelessness in Canada<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week we created a survey about homelessness and sent it out on social media. We wanted to know what people thought about homelessness, and if some of the opinions relate to the facts we have discovered. In pairs or alone we created graphs based on the data we gathered. Depending on the day each person or pair worked on a particular question the data might be different, as the number of people who took our survey changed from day to day. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the first day, Tuesday February 3rd, we had 23 responses, but by Monday February 9th, we had 40 responses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though our sample size was small we were able to interpret some of the results, and make some conclusions. Some of the data and interpretations below are reflective of the day it was collected and may not be the most recent data available.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We met at the carpet as a class and discussed our findings together. Here is our thinking based on the questions we asked:</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1. <span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">How important do you think the homeless issue is in Canada?</span></b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a scale of 1-10, 1 being not important at all and 10 being very important, no one picked 1 or 2 </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most people (24/37) picked between 5-10 </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The two choices picked most often were 4 and 10</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We think that this data means that most people think that homelessness is an important issue, but disagree about how just how important it is.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Only 5/33 people say they often support this issue by donating or volunteering. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">On Wednesday less than one 1/4 of the responders said they occasionally.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Our conclusion is that we are not doing enough to support organizations that work with people who are homeless.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who do you think are most likely to be homeless in Canada?</span></b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Most people think that people who are 25 years or older are more likely to be homeless.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">No one thought younger children between 4-11 are likely to be homeless.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Some students thought, based on this data, and the data from question 2, that perhaps the reason people are not helping those who are homeless is because they think the homeless are mostly adults who choose to be homeless, or choose not to get jobs. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The research we have done tell us a different story.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Some students think the reason that people think adults are more likely to be homeless is because adults are seen more often on the street than youth or children.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">4. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">The municipal government should make more housing available to the homeless.</span></b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The responses to this statement were very scattered</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Only slightly more people (20 vs 16) agreed with this statement</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We think that there are too many opinions about this statement to make a conclusion, other than to say that this is a controversial topic.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">30/40, or 75% of all people who responded, think that we need to do more</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We think that it is interesting that so many people think more needs to be done, but so few are donating or volunteering. Some students think people are waiting for others to take action, rather than taking action themselves. Some students think that people may not know how they can help.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Our data has given us a lot to think about.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond!</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-85293047023443547302015-02-03T15:02:00.001-05:002015-02-03T15:03:21.890-05:00Homelessness in Toronto Our class is trying to get as many responses to our survey as possible about homelessness in Canada, specifically Toronto. We are hoping to take action based on our research because we are learning to be leaders. Our project relates to our inquiry question which is: Whose voice is heard, and what does it mean to be fair?<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-82484997397533943632015-01-28T07:42:00.001-05:002015-12-01T09:34:51.286-05:00The New Arrangement<span style="font-size: large;">The class has changed shape. Miss Colby swapped out the grade 6 tables to desks.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">the grade 6's like the idea of having their own have own space</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">the grade 6's prefer to clean their own space not others</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">grade 4's and 5's are still in groups but in new location</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">the hope was that separated the grade 6's would be more quiet, but even with desks grade 6 are noisy</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">the grade 6's acknowledge the above as true</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The new term is beginning in a couple of weeks. We are going to start new Social Studies Units, Science units, and we will begin our Dance unit. In the new term we will also be switching our inquiry question.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For now the grade 4's are excited about their plant habitat. They have learned a lot about plant habitats through our mistakes and observation. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The grade 5's are learning about how the lungs work by making a model of a lung and are interested to see what they look like when they are done. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">the Kearney trip is quickly approaching! February 27th to March 7th. Make sure you have returned your completed forms.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Science Centre trip February 3rd</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Pizza day February 6th</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Beach Day February 6th</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">The Urban Voices poetry contest is coming up soon! Submissions are due by: February 13th</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Report cards go home on February 10th</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Parent teacher interviews are on February 12th and 13th</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Forest Valley trip March 25th</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-24018886290171932232015-01-07T09:21:00.000-05:002015-01-07T09:27:28.279-05:00Happy New Year!<b>What's Happening This Year</b><br />
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Welcome to the new year blog post! This year we are going to a lot of places and doing a lot of new (and old) things:<br />
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<li>Science Centre trip on February 3rd</li>
<li>First term report cards come out in February</li>
<li>Kearney trip for the grade 5 and 6's February 27- March 2nd</li>
<li>Forest Valley trip in March</li>
<li>Science Fair in May</li>
<li>Organizing a Pan-Am games day in June</li>
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Reading logs are due on January 16th! Make sure you have updated your entries.<br />
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Miss Colby says:<span style="color: blue;"> there is a TDSB poetry contest called Urban Voices. Poems for the contest are due the first week of February. I would like to submit some poems written by students in our class. I would also like to publish some poems on our blog site. Students, please let me know if I can post some of your poems here.</span><br />
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In Music we are learning about using our body as instruments to make music (body percussion). We are starting by learning Boom, Snap, Clap, and we are going eventually learn to perform the Extreme Patty Cake song. There are links below.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-62502179270490170182014-12-19T15:57:00.000-05:002014-12-19T15:57:46.230-05:00The Last Week of 2014This is our last blog post for 2014. We will continue the blog in January 2015. It is a very busy week, because of: the Winter concert, secret Santa, bake sale, singalongs, and all the practice practice practice <i>for</i> the winter concert. And, we have a lot of work making and collecting what we need for props.<br />
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The last day of school is Friday December 19th 2014, the same day as our secret Santa.<br />
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We wish Ms. Hughes, our favourite French teacher, a happy birthday on January 2nd. Unfortunately we will not be in class to wish her on the actually date.<br />
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We hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! School will be open again on Monday January 5th 2015.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-77252080558392592822014-12-10T09:26:00.000-05:002014-12-10T09:26:26.091-05:00Busy DayToday is a bit of a crazy day in the middle of an exciting week. We have been writing a skit based on the poem<i> 'Twas the Night Before Christmas</i> and making props. We have also been learning to code using <a href="http://code.org/">code.org</a>. On Monday we listened to a game developer named Jenn. She told us about designing and producing games and how long it takes to make a game. She also answered some of our questions like: do you like Minecraft? and why wouldn't people want girls to code? She told us how she became a developer and encouraged us to learn to code.<br />
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Today is an awesome day for the grade 5's because they are going to see a program at Stephen Leacock on bullying. Some students are jealous because the grade 5's will be getting to eat pizza for lunch for free. Meanwhile, the grade 6's from Mrs. Panopoulos' class are spending the day with us. We are going to have to learn to share our space because there are more students in our room than usual.<br />
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Tonight is exciting because it is Kearney information night! One step closer to going to Kearney! There will be translators at the meeting being held in the library. We hope as many parents as possible can attend so that everyone will come to Kearney! It starts at 6:00pm.<br />
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<li>The Winter concert is just over a week away! (December 18th)</li>
<li>Bake sale at the concert (Miss Colby is planning on making Minecraft cookies for the sale)</li>
<li>Next week is the last week of school</li>
<li>Slide Show December 19th</li>
<li>Secret Santa December 19th: students are only allowed to spend a maximum of $10.00</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-78478317932792023402014-12-03T11:02:00.001-05:002014-12-03T12:39:58.103-05:00Hour of CodeNext week our school is participating in the hour of code. At this point we are planning to use code.org for our learning. We have a lot of questions about what we will be able to do, and some of us are already making plans for what we want to accomplish.<br />
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We are also looking forward to hearing from software engineers about their work through Canada Learns Coding.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-16886693518196886822014-11-25T09:21:00.001-05:002014-11-25T09:21:27.879-05:00The day Forest Valley Came to Us <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
On Monday November 24th we were suppose to go on a trip to Forest Valley. Unfortunately, because of the strong winds, Forest Valley lost Hydro and they had to cancel our trip. Some people were frustrated. Others were disappointed, but most of us were excited again when we found out that they were going to come to our school for the day. Even better, we found out we were getting another day to visit them, to make up for the day we missed. </div>
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<li>The grade 5's are going to a bullying presentation at Stephen Leacock on December 10th</li>
<li>PARENTS: On Wednesday December 10th there will be an important Kearney informational meeting for all parents of grade 6 and 5 students at 6:00 pm at the school.</li>
<li>The junior department of the entire school has been invited to a holiday concert at Stephen Leacock on December 11th </li>
<li>Winter Concert Thursday December 18th 6:30pm</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-69268368700211236702014-11-18T09:17:00.000-05:002014-11-18T09:17:10.050-05:00New Inquiry: Whose voice is heard? What does is it mean to be fair?In our school we are looking at a new inquiry question, which is: Whose voice is heard, and what does it mean to be fair? Our last question was: Do societies need empathy?<br />
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<u>Some of our thinking so far:</u><br />
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<li>teachers and parents are heard</li>
<li>children's voices are heard when talking in a group of other children</li>
<li>I think it has to do with power</li>
<li>depends on where you are</li>
<li>fairness is when everyone is treated equally</li>
<li>equity</li>
<li>fairness is that no one is treated better than others</li>
<li>it's not fair that some voices are not heard that need to be heard</li>
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<li>We have a field trip to Forest Valley on Monday November 24th 2014.</li>
<li>There is a drama presentation coming to our school on Friday November 28th 2014.</li>
<li>Our music project is due Tuesday November 25th 2014.</li>
<li>Our writer's portfolio is due Thursday December 18th 2014.</li>
<li>Our Winter concert is on Thursday December 18th 2014.</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-80872911037180543762014-10-31T09:09:00.000-04:002014-10-31T10:37:10.132-04:00Impressionist Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is impressionist art. </div>
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We know it is impressionist because we used primary colours and short brush strokes. Also it looks like we painted it as it was happening; and we know that impressionist painters usually painted real life things while it was happening. </div>
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Before we painted we researched impressionist art, and asked and answered questions about the artwork we saw.</div>
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Miss Colby went to a Paint Nite event with Mr. Gulamhusein, Ms. Gupta and Ms. Hutchinson and learned to paint a very similar painting. She made changes to the task to make it fit with what we were studying. She changed the colours to primary (fall) colours.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-77903892021759339262014-10-17T14:51:00.001-04:002014-10-17T14:51:11.821-04:00Week End: Ticket out the door!What we discovered this week:<br />
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<li>learned that a straight angle is 180 degrees</li>
<li>we learned how to make a measuring tool that looks like a protractor, but made out of paper</li>
<li>lunar eclipses happen more than solar eclipses</li>
<li>Doug Ford is Rob Ford's brother</li>
<li>We are starting the We Scare Hunger Campaign </li>
<li>More about Empathy: examples and characteristics and you can treat people with empathy</li>
<li>We learned about reflex angles (they are greater than 180 degrees)</li>
<li>an acute angle is smaller than 90 degrees and an obtuse angle is greater than 90 degrees</li>
<li>Ebola is only spread only through bodily fluid and not spread by casual contact.</li>
<li>We learned about Caitlin and her positive post-it campaign</li>
<li>Import and Export (take and give)</li>
<li>there are three types of triangles, but we can't remember their names...yet. (The grade sixes know).</li>
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<li>Field trip on Friday! We get to meet with our mentors!</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-30111962735930513632014-10-10T09:30:00.001-04:002014-10-10T09:30:28.220-04:00International Day of the GirlOn Saturday October 11th is the International day of the Girl. This is an important day because it raises awareness for girls who do not have a voice. One reason this day is important to us is because we learned about girls education last year and wrote speeches to turn their voice into our voice. Our voices spoke their message. As girls who have the right to go to school, we stand up for those who don't.<br />
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We are excited to hear that Malala won the Nobel Peace prize almost 2 years after being shot and one day before the International Day of the Girl. Her confidence in her belief that all girls should have an education teaches us that even through the worst times you can persevere to the end. <br />
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<b>NEVER GIVE UP!</b><br />
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For more information about International Day of the Girl check out: <a href="http://dayofthegirl.org/">http://dayofthegirl.org</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809577746974284606.post-50414889329505710232014-10-08T15:19:00.001-04:002014-10-08T15:19:17.724-04:00Scientist in the School<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li>owls have no teeth, and they throw up 2 times a day</li>
<li>a raccoons skull is identical to a skunk but a bit bigger. </li>
<li>a raccoon is an omnivore </li>
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