Daily Report for Thursday October 13th 2016

Weather for Today:  Partly Cloudy and Cool….

HIGH : 12°C                 LOW : 11°C                  P.O.P. : 20%

Period A: We went to the ME Kitchen to prepare our lunch. Ahmed and Matthew cut up the celery. Emily and Nerissa cut up the green peppers. Keyur cut up the onions with a little help from Emily. Fahim did a great job browning the chicken and sweating the vegetables. The Sasitharan brothers set the table. Shakur helped to clean up the kitchen. It was a delicious lunch !

Period B: We met Mr. Infinity in S 23. We then went to the cafeteria for the Terry Fox Reward Assembly. A group of teachers did a dance number. Tom the Hall Monitor was thrown in a mud Bath ! Mr, Tipoff did an extreme workout To top it all off a bunch of teacher’s and staff had cream pie’s thrown in their faces ! It was a fun assembly.

After we had eaten our lunch we went to the Free Style Singing Club in S-22.

Period C: Keyur and Fahim went to their co-op placement at Dollarama. They stocked shelves. The rest of the class met in the ME Kitchen to eat dessert and do the dishes. We then went back to class where we had a lesson on the Four Food Groups. We then used a program on the Promethean Board to make a word search about the different food groups.

Period D: We went for a Community Walk. We filled in the Daily Report. We had our Mindfulness Meditation sitting.

Daily Report for Wednesday October 12th 2016

Weather for Today:  Sunny and Warm…

HIGH : 21°C                 LOW : 7°C           P.O.P. : 10%

Period A: Mr. Wilkens was doing some training on using the Promethean Board this morning. Since the training was in our classroom we went to the library for Period A. We did our Current Events Activity. We all picked an article from the 24 Hour paper and filled in the worksheets. We finished before the end of the period so we went for a walk outside.

Period B: We met Mr. Infinity in S-23. We were introduced to a new computer game about Santa. We played the game together as a class and then we split up into partners and played the game some more. We also had a little time to work on individual educational programs.

After eating our lunch in the Cafeteria, we went to S-22 for Dance Club with Ms. Duffin. We danced to a Justin Timberlake song.

Period C: We came up with a menu and shopping list for tomorrow’s lunch. We will be having Curry Chicken, Rice and Peas and Cole Slaw. We then walked to No Frills to buy the groceries .

Period D: We filled in the Daily Report. We had our Mindfulness Meditation sitting.

Note to Parents: Lunch program tomorrow. Students do not need a lunch.

Daily Report for Tuesday October 11th 2016

Weather for Today:  Overcast and Cool….

HIGH : 16°C                 LOW : 2°C             P.O.P. :  30%

Period A: We began with our Mindfulness Minutes We had Circle Time where we talked about what we had done over  the long weekend. We then went to S-6 where we set the table for the Maplewood Mindfulness Community lunch. When we got back to class we wrote in our Weekend Journal.

Period B: We met Mr. Infinity in S-23. We paired up with partners and went on the computers to play a game called  Floppy Birds. We then had time to work on individual educational programs.

Period C: Fahim and Mark went with Ms. McDonald to S-6 to clean up from the lunch. The rest of the class worked on money math on the Promethean Board. When Fahim and Mark got back to class we all presented our Weekend Journals to the class. We then played two games of Musical Chairs. Ahmed won the first game while Keyur won the second.

Period D: We went for a Community Walk. Today we walked to the park beside Eastview P.S. We filled in the Daily Report. We had our Mindfulness Meditation sitting.

Daily Report for Thursday October 6th 2016

Weather for Today: Sunny and Warm…

HIGH : 24°C                 LOW : 16°C                   P.O.P. : 10%

Period A: We went to the ME Kitchen to prepare our lunch. Today we had Chili Con Carne. Fahim browned the beef. Emily and Rebeca cut up the peppers and onions. Shakur peeled ands grated the carrots for the Cole Slaw. Matthew cut up the celery.  Joel  and Matthew set  the table. Keyur and Mark made the Garlic Bread. Ahmed opened the cans and helped with clean up. When we got back to our classroom we had our morning sit.

Period B: We met Mr. Infinity in S- 23. We learned about making a computer game. Today we chose an con to use in our game.

Period C: We went back to the ME Kitchen for dessert . We had Chocolate Cake and Ice Cream. Tomorrow is Mr. Wilkens birthday so we sang Happy Birthday and pretended to have 59 candles icon the cake. We then went back to our classroom where we did our Current Events Activity.

Period D: We filled in the Daily Report. We had our Mindfulness Meditation sitting.

Daily Report Wednesday October 5th for 2016

Weather for Today: Sunny and Warm…

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HIGH : 21°C                 LOW : 11°C        P.O.P. : 10%

We began with our Mindfulness Minutes. We had to cut short our morning sit as we were called down to the Cafeteria to get ready to get on the bus that was taking us to the Cross Country Meet. The bus took us to Morningside Park. Everybody in the class, except for Rebeca, ran in a race. We all finished our race’s and had a great time. We had to wait around for the bus but we got back to school in time  for our afternoon routine. We filled in the Daily Report. We had our Mindfulness Meditation sitting.

Note to Parents: Tomorrow is Lunch Program. Student’s do not need a lunch.

Daily Report for Tuesday October 4th 2016

Weather for Today: Partly Cloudy and Warm….

HIGH : 20°C       LOW : 14°C                  P.O.P. : 10%

Period A: Fahim, Keyur and Ahmed went with Ms. McDonald’s class to deliver papers. The rest of the class worked on money math. At 9:30 we went to S-6 to set the table for the Maplewood Mindfulness Community lunch. We then came back to class where we did some more money  math.

Period B: We met Mr. Infinity in S-23. We worked on individual educational programs. We then used Google Earth to look up different locations including the route we will be taking tomorrow on the Cross Country Run.  

Period C: Keyur and Matthew went to S-6 to do the dishes from the Maplewood Mindfulness Community lunch. The rest of the class came up with a menu and a shopping list for Thursday`s lunch. When  Keyur and Matthew were finished the dishes we all walked to No Frills to buy the grocery`s for Thursday`s lunch.   We will be having Chili Con Carne.

Period D: We filled in the Daily Report. We had our Mindfulness Meditation sitting.

Note to Parents: Tomorrow is the Cross Country Run. See note in Communication Book.

Daily Report for Monday October 3rd 2016

Weather for Today: Overcast and Cool….

HIGH : 19°C                 LOW : 14°C        P.O.P. : 30%

 We began with our Mindfulness Minutes. We then left the school to go on our first weekly trip to the Scarborough YMCA. We took Scarborough 86A TTC bus to Kennedy Station. We then took the LRT to McCowan Station. We then walked to the Scarborough YMCA.

At the YMCA  we got changed into our gym wear and then went upstairs to the indoor track. We walked around the track, some of us ran some laps. After we had walked for approx.. 2 miles we went to a gym where we played some badminton. We finished off our work out by walking for 10 minutes on the treadmill machines.

We then walked to the walked to the Food Court at Scarborough Town Centre where ate our lunch. After our lunch we walked around the Mall. We then took the TTC back to school where we arrived just in time for  period D.

Period D: We filled in the Daily Report. We had our Mindfulness Meditation sitting.