CHANGE OF DATE for Cedarvale Park field study... 2 Parent volunteers needed for Cedarvale Park for the morning. Dress comfortably for our walking trip. Students bring a litterless lunch. Hoping for better weather  :)

DRAMA: Shadow Performances:  Co-writing the script for your shadow performance in Google Docs and "share" with your team

MATH:  Fractions: how to justify our math thinking using numbers, pictures, diagrams and number lines. Next week we begin looking at our Geometry Unit.

***Practice your multiplication tables for 7 & 8: 

Check out these sites for practice:  Math is Fun  or Table Trees

SCIENCE: Google Classroom assignment updating the Living Things classification tree class challenge in Google Drawing

LANGUAGE: Students were partnered with a peer to collaborate on researching a local issues that they are concerned about. Tomorrow you will collaborate on the partner storyboard.

POETRY: Google Classroom assignment write a poem based on the video below, first draft due Monday October 24th

Consider this guiding question: How has human development in a urban setting impacted the natural environment of the Duck Community?

CHANGE OF DATE for Cedarvale Park field study... 2 Parent volunteers needed for Cedarvale Park for the morning. Dress comfortably for our walking trip. Students bring a litterless lunch.

DRAMA: Shadow Performances:  Co-writing the script for your shadow performance in Google Docs and "share" with your team

MATH:  Fractions: how to justify our math thinking using numbers, pictures, diagrams and number lines

***Practice your multiplication tables for 7 & 8: 

Check out these sites for practice:  Math is Fun  or Table Trees

SCIENCE: Google Classroom assignment updating the Living Things classification tree class challenge in Google Drawing

LANGUAGE: Students were partnered with a peer to collaborate on researching a local issues that they are concerned about. Tomorrow you will collaborate on the partner storyboard.

Day1 @GoogleCSFirst Not just a club! Ss learning 2 code prompts w/ android sprites @GoogleForEdu @tdsb #csfirst #coding pic.twitter.com/fpI8170bAR

— MsTavares (@McM_MsT) October 20, 2016

2 Parent volunteers needed for Cedarvale Park for the morning. Dress comfortably for our walking trip. Students bring a litterless lunch.

DRAMA: Shadow Performances:  Co-writing the script for your shadow performance in Google Docs and "share" with your team

MATH:  Fractions: how to justify our math thinking using numbers, pictures, diagrams and number lines

***Practice your multiplication tables for 7 & 8: 

Check out these sites for practice:  Math is Fun  or Table Trees

SCIENCE: Google Classroom assignment updating the Living Things classification tree class challenge in Google Drawing

LANGUAGE: Students were partnered with a peer to collaborate on researching a local issues that they are concerned about. As a team you should have researched 8 - 12 facts to support why this issue is a concern for tomorrow

Please Note:
Our 1st pizza lunch of the year is Friday October 28th and we're going on line for ordering and payment. Please read the attached instructions (or view on the School Council blog: http://mcmurrichschool.blogspot.ca/2016/10/pizza-lunch.html) so you're not left out. It's a few simple steps that need to be done by Tuesday October 25th with additional info for volunteering, help getting on line and instructions if you're more comfortable with paper ordering.​

#McMurrich Ss alongside other Ss who make a difference in their community sharing this morning #WEDay #wedaytoronto celebr8xn @tdsb @metowe pic.twitter.com/MzLPR2GGO9

— MsTavares (@McM_MsT) October 19, 2016

Proud of Ss speaking at breakfast gathering abt how he&peers r community change agents! @tdsb @metowe #WEDay #wedaytoronto @McMurrichParent pic.twitter.com/N6XHmby3Kn

— MsTavares (@McM_MsT) October 19, 2016

2 Parent volunteers needed for Cedarvale Park for the morning. Dress comfortably for our walking trip.

DRAMA: Shadow Performances:  Co-writing the script for your shadow performance in Google Docs and "share" with your team

MATH:  Fractions: how to justify our math thinking using numbers, pictures, diagrams and number lines

***Practice your multiplication tables for 7 & 8: 

Check out these sites for practice:  Math is Fun  or Table Trees

SCIENCE: Google Classroom assignment updating the Living Things classification tree class challenge in Google Drawing

LANGUAGE: Students were partnered with a peer to collaborate on researching a local issues that they are concerned about. As a team you should have researched 8 - 12 facts to support why this issue is a concern for tomorrow

SPIRIT DAY Thank you to students who joined us today in wearing your Blue Jays gear, or anything blue and white. Thank you for making a $1 donation for our school initiative supporting a Syrian Refugee Family . 

2 Parent volunteers needed for Cedarvale Park for the morning. Dress comfortably for our walking trip.

I am very excited to share that Coding in the class will begin next week. You will be learning to apply your computational thinking skills through code and design a game. All you need to bring with you is an open mind, a headset and a positive attitude :)


DRAMA: Shadow Performances:  Co-writing the script for your shadow performance in Google Docs and "share" with your team

MATH:  Entrance Pass, focus on using the KWC to deconstruct the challenge before showing your math thinking

***Practice your multiplication tables for 7 & 8: 

Check out these sites for practice:  Math is Fun  or Table Trees

SCIENCE: Google Classroom assignment updating the Living Things classification tree class challenge in Google Drawing

LANGUAGE: identify a local issues that concerns you that will be shared with the class. Research 4 - 6 facts to support why this issue is a concern

SPIRIT DAY for October in on Tuesday 18th. Wear your Blue Jays gear, or anything blue and white. Donate $1 for our school initiative supporting a Syrian Refugee Family . 

I am very excited to share that Coding in the class will begin next week. You will be learning to apply your computational thinking skills through code and design a game. All you need to bring with you is an open mind, a headset and a positive attitude :)


DRAMA: Shadow Performances:  Co-writing the script for your shadow performance in Google Docs and "share" with your team

MATH:  Entrance Pass, focus on using the KWC to deconstruct the challenge before showing your math thinking

***Practice your multiplication tables for 7 & 8: 

Check out these sites for practice:  Math is Fun  or Table Trees

POETRY: creating concrete poems using ink on paper / tagul.com

SCIENCE: Google Classroom assignment updating the Living Things classification tree class challenge in Google Drawing

LANGUAGE: identify a local issues that concerns you that will be shared with the class. Research 4 - 6 facts to support why this issue is a concern

SPIRIT DAY for October in on Tuesday 18th. Wear your Blue Jays gear, or anything blue and white. Donate $1 for our school initiative supporting a Syrian Refugee Family . 

So creative! Concrete poems written by students using ink on paper & #tagul @tdsb pic.twitter.com/kKDOP5Gee1

— MsTavares (@McM_MsT) October 14, 2016

I am very excited to share that Coding in the class will begin next week. You will be learning to apply your computational thinking skills through code and design a game. All you need to bring with you is an open mind, a headset and a positive attitude :)


DRAMA: Shadow Performances:  Co-writing the script for your shadow performance in Google Docs and "share" with your team

MATH:  Entrance Pass, focus on using the KWC to deconstruct the challenge before showing your math thinking

***Practice your multiplication tables for 7 & 8: 

Check out these sites for practice:  Math is Fun  or Table Trees

POETRY: creating concrete poems using ink on paper / tagul.com

SCIENCE: Google Classroom assignment updating the Living Things classification tree class challenge in Google Drawing

LANGUAGE: identify a local issues that concerns you that will be shared with the class. Several students pitched their local issue today, looking forward to hearing more tomorrow

GRA PAX: Global Read Aloud PAX Blog: reflect on the read aloud chapters shared this week in a blog post:
- A favourite quote
- Your favourite part
- A prediction for the next few chapters
- A new question you have about the text/story