Daily Report for Friday May 28th 2015

The Weather Today was: Sunny and warm with a few clouds…

LOW : 13°C                  HIGH : 24°C                 P.O.P. : 20%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We started out with the rhythm exercise, this time led by Cheryl. We did not do the drums today but we sang along with different songs. We also worked on our final assembly act.

Period 2: We practiced the Black Light Show performance in the cafeteria. When we had finished practicing we came back to class and did our Current Events activity.

Period 3: We had our weekly trip to the computer lab where we worked on various educational programs. We also went for a short community walk at the end of the period.

Period 4: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the daily report. We had our daily meditation sitting.

Note to Parents: YMCA on Monday. Students will need gym wear and a bagged lunch.

Daily Report for Thursday May 28th 2015

The Weather Today was: Sunny and Warm….

LOW : 14°C                  HIGH : 26°C                 P.O.P. : 0%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We started out by doing the rhythm exercise. Today`s exercise was led by Cheryl. We then sang along to different songs called up on the computer. We were also accompanied on the drums by Satesh and Rayshawn. 

Period 2: We did the food preparation for our lunch. Shagee and Stafhan set the table. Ralph made the fruit punch. Issham washed and dried the lettuce. Laven, Jaran and Robert cut up the garnish for the salad.

Period 3: We went for a walk to the Guild Inn Park. When we got back from the walk we had our dessert of Brownies and ice cream.

Period 4: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the daily report. We had our daily meditation sitting.

Daily Report for Wednesday May 27th 2015

The Weather Today was: Sunny and Hot……

LOW : 20°C                  HIGH : 25°C                 P.O.P. : 20%

In Class Today:

Period 1: To start off the class we did the rhythm exercise. Today’s exercise was led by our very own Issham, as Satesh was away. We then got to practice our drumming skills with Mr. Jones playing lead and the rest of us following. We then sang along with songs called up from the ‘Net.

Period 2: We went for our weekly grocery shopping trip to No Frills. We are going to have Oven Baked Fried Chicken. We walked to the store where we bought our groceries for tomorrow’s lunch.

Period 3: We went to the cafeteria where we practiced once again our black light show. The show is coming along very well and our performance should be great. When we got back from our practice we did a little food prep for tomorrow’s lunch.

Period 4: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the daily report. We had our daily mindfulness meditation sitting.

Note to Parents: Lunch program tomorrow, send no lunch.

Daily Report for Tuesday May 26th 2015

The Weather Today was: Sunny and Hot….

LOW : 20°C                  HIGH : 25°C                 P.O.P. : 20%

In Class Today:

Today the whole class went to Rosedale Heights School for the Arts for a Toronto wide Swim Meet. Issham and Robert were both competitors and they did very well in their races. The rest of the class was a great cheering section for the Maplewood Team.

Note to Parents: Tomorrow is the Graduation Prom at Bluffers Park Restaurant.  

Daily Report for Friday May 22nd 2015

The Weather Today was: Sunny with a few clouds and warm….

LOW : 6°C                    HIGH : 14°C                 P.O.P. : 10%

In Class Today:

Period 1: Once again Cheryl led the rhythm exercise to start the class. We then got to sing along with different songs. We then practiced our original song for the assembly.

Period 2: We began by having our weekly spelling test. The words this week were about graduation and the Prom. The class struggled somewhat with the words as they were quite difficult. Issham did very well though, he got a perfect score.  We then watched some videos on mindfulness and had a class discussion on what mindfulness means to each of us.

Period 3: We went to the computer lab where we worked on various educational programs.   

Period 4: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in our daily report. We had our daily mindfulness meditation sitting.

Note to Parents: Short Day on Monday. Bus pick up at 12:15.

Daily Report for Thursday May 21st. 2015

The Weather Today was: Sunny and Warm…

LOW  : 9°C                             HIGH : 17°C                 P.O.P. : 20%

In Class Today:

Period 1: Once again Cheryl led the rhythm exercise to start the class. We did not drum today but we got to sing along to our favourite songs. Ibrahim shared some lyrics he wrote for the original song we are getting ready for the year end assembly.

Period 2: We did our food prep for today’s lunch. It did not take us long as we had done some of the prep yesterday. Here are some pictures of us getting our lunch ready…..

Period 3: We had another practice of our Black Light Show performance. The show is really coming along ! 
Here is a video of the practice...

When we had run through the performance three times we called it a day. After the practice we went for a Community Walk. We then came back to class where we had our dessert of fresh baked Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie.

Period 4: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the daily report. Unfortunately, because we had have a yearbook picture taken we had to miss our meditation sitting. Perhaps we can do an extra-long one tomorrow.  

Daily Report for Wednesday May 20th 2015

The Weather Today was: Sunny and somewhat Cool…

LOW : 3°C          HIGH : 14°C                 P.O.P. : 10%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We started out with the usual rhythm warm up, this time led by Cheryl. We then sang along to songs from the internet. Mr. Jones gave us homework. We are to create some lyrics for an original song that we can perform in the year end assembly.

Period 2: We went shopping at the local No Frills for tomorrow’s lunch. We will be having Pizza with Caesar Salad . We bought some mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, mushrooms, red peppers and pizza sauce. We also bought some Coca Cola. When we got back to school we put the groceries away.

Period 3: We did some initial food prep for tomorrow’s lunch. Stafhan and Kabilan grated the cheese. Ralph and Robert cut up the red peppers. Jaran and Laven cut up the ‘shrooms. When we had finished with the food prep we did some online math drills using the whiteboard.

Period 4: We did our classroom jobs, We filled in the daily report. We had our daily mindfulness meditation sitting.

Note to Parents: Lunch Program tomorrow. Send no lunch.

Daily Report for Tuesday May 19th 2015

The Weather Today was: Partly Cloudy and Warm…

LOW : 13°C                  HIGH : 16°C                 P.O.P. : 20%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We started out with the rhythm exercise as a warm up. Satesh led the exercise. Because there  was an issue with the internet we had to use Satesh’s cell phone to get songs to sing along to. We began work on creating an original song to perform at the Year End Assembly.

Period 2: We wrote in our weekend journals what we had done over the long weekend. We also came up with our weekly spelling words list. This week’s words are about the upcoming prom and commencement.   

Period 3: We started out the class with presenting what we had written in our weekend journals. We then had two rounds of Musical chairs. We finished off the period by going for a community walk.

Period 4: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the daily report. WE had our daily mindfulness meditation sitting.

Daily Report for Friday May 15th. 2015

The Weather Today was: Overcast and Cool….

LOW : 9°C                    HIGH : 14°C                 P.O.P. 70%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We started out by doing the rhythm exercise, led by Satesh. We then sang songs along with songs on the computer. We then made up our own songs accompanied by Mr. Jones on bass and Satesh on the drums.

Period 2: We began with our weekly spelling test. This week’s words were about our upcoming Black Light Show The Age of Aquarius/Where have all the Flowers Gone . The class as a whole did much better with this week’s words. We then did our Current Event activity, cutting out articles from the Metro paper and answering the 5 W questions on our worksheets.

Period 3: We presented our Current Event worksheets to the class and learned a little about each subject covered by using the whiteboard. We then went to the cafeteria to have our third Black Light Show practice with Mrs. Appleton’s class. We are making great progress in our practices and will surely be able to do a fantastic job at the Year End Assembly.

Period 4: We had some fresh baked Chocolate Chip Cookies. We then did our classroom jobs. We filled in the daily report. We finished up with our daily Mindfulness Meditation sitting.

  

Note to Parents:  Monday is Victoria Day. No school on Monday.

Daily Report for Thursday May 14th 2015

The Weather Today was: Sunny and Windy

LOW: 8°C                HIGH: 16°C              P.O.P. :10%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We began our music class by playing the drum set. Then we all got a chance to sing along to songs Mr. Jones called up on the computer. We had a chance to play the guitar and we made up a song. We had free time.

Period 2: We prep for our lunch program. Jaran and Ibby set the table, Shaggie washed lettuce, Kabilan and Stafhan peeled carrots Ralph chopped radishes, and Issham and Robert chopped celery and tomatoes. We ate shepherd’s pie at 11:15 am.

Period 3: We walked to the Guildwood Park and took pictures of nature.  

Period 4: We had brownies and ice cream for dessert and classroom jobs.

Issham did the Daily Report .We had mediation.

Daily Report for Wednesday May 13th. 2015

The Weather Today was: Overcast and Warm...

LOW: 6°C           HIGH: 14°C                  P.O.P. : 10%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We began as usual with the rhythm warm up. Satesh was there so he led the exercise. We then got to play on the drum set. Then we all got a chance to sing along to songs Mr. Jones called up on the computer. We had a chance to play the guitar.

Period 2: In period 2 we made the Sheppard’s Pie. Jaran, Robert, Ralph, Stafhan and Kabilan cut up the onions and celery. Issham browned the ground beef and then sweated the celery and onions. When we had finished the prep Mr. Wilkens took the pie to bake in the community kitchen.

Period 3: Today was our second practice for the Black Light Show. Ms. Appleton’s class came to our classroom where we watched a video of the performance that Mr. Wilkens class performed in 2012. We then went to the cafeteria and practiced on the stage. The practice went very well.

Period 4: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the daily report. We had our daily meditation sitting.

Daily Report for Tuesday May 12th. 2015

The Weather Today was: Overcast with Chance of Showers….

LOW : 13°C                  HIGH : 16°C                 P.O.P. : 30%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We began as usual with the rhythm warm up. Satesh was there so he led the exercise. We then got to play on the drum set. Then we all got a chance to sing along to songs Mr. Jones called up on the computer.

Period 2: We did our weekly trip to No Frills to buy the groceries for our Lunch Program. This week we will be having Shepard’s Pie, which is best made the day before, so we had to buy the ingredients today so we can prep the pie tomorrow.  

Period 3: We did our weekend journal activity. We filled in our journals with what we did on the weekend just past. We also came up with weeks spelling list, words to do with the Black Light Show we have started working on. We then presented our journals to the class.  

Period 4: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in our daily report. We had our daily meditation sitting.

Note to Parents: 

Daily Report for Monday May 11th. 2015

The Weather Today was: Overcast and Warm…

LOW : 14°C                  HIGH : 17°C                 P.O.P. : 30%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We started out with the rhythm exercise led by Satesh. Then we played the drums. We then sang along to songs that Mr. Jones called up on the computer.

We then went on our weekly trip to the Y.M.C.A. We took the TTC to the Y. This week was our time to use the swimming pool. After we had finished in the pool we got changed. We then went to the Food Court at the Scarborough Town Centre where we ate lunch. After walking around the mall for a bit we took the TTC back to school. 

Daily Report for Friday May 8th. 2015

The Weather Today was: Sunny and Hot !.....

LOW : 11°C                  HIGH : 23°C                 P.O.P. : 20%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We began as usual with the rhythm warm up. Satesh was there so he lead the exercise. We then got to play on the drum set. Then we all got a chance to sing along to songs Mr. Jones called up on the computer. At the end of the period we had free time.

Period 2 : We did the prep for our lunch, which this week was actually Brunch. Ibby and Jaran set the table. Shagee cracked the eggs for scrambled eggs. Ralph made the French Toast. Issham made the pancakes. Kabilan and Ralph cut up the potatoes for the home fries. Stafhan and Issham cut up the onions.

Period 3: Instead of our usual trip to the computer lab we started out with our Spelling test. The words, which were about Mother’s Day, were rather difficult this week so the class did not do as well as usual. After the test we joined with Ms. Appleton’s class to have our first practice on the stage of our Black Light Show. The practice went very well.

Period 4: We had our dessert of Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. WE did our classroom jobs. We filled in the daily report. We only had time for a short sitting.

Note to Parents: YMCA on Monday. Students need swim wear.

Daily Report for Thursday May 7th. 2015

The Weather Today was: Sunny and Warm !......

LOW : 16°C                  HIGH : 21°C                 P.O.P. : 10%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We began the period by watching a movie. We then got to sing songs of our choice that Mr. Jones called up on the computer.

Period 2: We started work on the act we will be doing for the year end assembly. We are working with Ms. Appleton and Mr. Ayeung’s class to put on a Black Light Show. Today we watched a video of Mr. Wilkens class from three years ago when they put on the same show, a medley of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In and Where Have All The Flowers Gone. After we watched the video we were assigned our roles for the act. We then went to the cafeteria where we loaded up on healthy foods from the free lunch provided by the Lasagna Club. We all enjoyed our free lunch. (except for Jaran, who does not like salad ! )

Period 3: We went to a special presentation by a public health nurse called Rethink the Drink. We learned about how unhealthy pop and energy drinks are and that we should drink more water and milk. It was an informative presentation that will help us to make healthy choices in the future.

Period 4: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the daily report. We had our daily meditation sitting.

Note to Parents: Lunch Program tomorrow. Send no lunch.

Daily Report for Wednesday May 6th 2015

The Weather Today was: Sunny and Warm !.....

LOW : 8°C                    HIGH : 20°C                 P.O.P. : 10%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We began as usual with the rhythm warm up. Satesh was there so he lead the exercise. We then got to play on the drum set. Then we all got a chance to sing along to songs Mr. Jones called up on the computer. We got a special treat today when Mr. Jones, Satesh and Cheryl performed a song for us. Then Mr. Tipoff came in and he sang a song as well.

Period 2: We walked to the local No Frills to buy the groceries for our Lunch program. Since tomorrow the whole school is getting a free salad lunch we will be having our lunch program lunch on Friday. The menu for this week is breakfast for lunch. We bought some eggs, bacon, sausage and potatoes. We also purchased some Chicken Bacon for Ibby and Issham. When we got back to class we put away the groceries.

Period 3: The whole class worked hard on making Mother’s Day cards. Everybody colored in some flowers that Mr. Wilkens had printed out from the computer. We then cut them out and glued them on to the card.

Period 4: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the daily report. We had our daily meditation sitting.

Note to Parents: Special school wide Salad lunch tomorrow. Lunch Program lunch on Friday. Please see Communication Book for Transition Planning Days Information sheet.

Daily Report for Tuesday May 5th 2015

The Weather Today was: Partly Cloudy and Warm…

LOW : 8°C                    HIGH : 16°C                 P.O.P. : 30%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We began as usual with the rhythm warm up. Satesh was there so he lead the exercise. We then got to play on the drum set. Then we all got a chance to sing along to songs Mr. Jones called up on the computer.

Period 2: We wrote in our Weekend Journals. When we had finished writing our journal entries we presented what we had written to the class. We then came up with our weekly spelling words list. This week’s words are about Mother’s Day , which is coming up next Sunday.

Period 3: We all worked on making Mother’s Day cards. We colored in some pictures of flowers and began writing suitable text to put in our cards. Since there were 5 students away from class today we will come back to this activity later this week.

Period 4: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the daily report. We had our daily Mindfulness Meditation sitting.

Daily Report for Monday May 4th 2015

The Weather Today was: Overcast and Warm…..

LOW : 11°C                  HIGH : 22°C                     P.O.P. : 70%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We began as usual with the rhythm warm up. Satesh was there so he lead the exercise. We then got to play on the drum set. Then we all got a chance to sing along to songs Mr. Jones called up on the computer. At the end of the period we had free time.

Today we went for our weekly trip to the Scarborough Y.M.C.A. We took the TTC to the YMCA. We walked around the indoor track . We then went downstairs to work out on the treadmill machines. We went to the Food Court at Scarborough Town Centre to eat our lunch. We did even more walking, this time around the mall then took the TTC back to school. We filled in the daily report then had a short meditation sitting.

Daily Report for Friday May 1st 2015

The Weather Today was: Partly Cloudy and Warm…..

LOW : 9°C          HIGH : 18°C                 P.O.P. : 40%

In Class Today:

Period 1: We began as usual with the rhythm warm up. Satesh was there so he led the exercise. We then got to play on the drum set. Then we all got a chance to sing along to songs Mr. Jones called up on the computer.

Period 2: We started out with our weekly spelling test. This week’s words were about gardening. The class did very well, as usual. We then worked on writing a “Fractured Fairy Tale” about Jack and the Beanstalk.

Period 3: We had our weekly visit to the computer lab where we worked on various educational programs. We left the lab a little early so we could go for a community walk.

Period 4: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the daily report. We had a daily mindfulness mediation siting.

Note to Parents: We will be going to the YMCA on Monday. Students will need to bring gym clothes and lunch.