Daily Report for Tuesday May 9th 2017

Weather for Today: Sunny and Coolish…

HIGH : 11°C                     LOW : 3°C              P.O.P. : 30 %

Period A: Ahmed, Emily and Fahim went to their Co-op placement at Giant Tiger. Once again we hung up clothes to put on display. The rest of us began with our Mindfulness Minutes. We then went back to the ME Kitchen to continue work on food preparation for Thursday’s Wesak Feast. Nerissa and Rebeca cut up some Sweet Peppers. Shakur and Matthew helped to clean up. Joel and Mark also helped with cleaning.

Period B: We met Ms. Queen in S-7. We set the table for the Maplewood Mindfulness Community Lunch. Today we finished off our Canadian Bicentennial Pillows. We also worked on our multimedia Cherry Blossom projects. We glued on popcorn as Cherry Blossoms.

We went to the Computer Lab after lunch.

Period C: We met in the ME Kitchen where we washed dishes from the Mindfulness lunch and finished up cleaning the kitchen from the work we did this morning. When we had done we went to finish off delivering the Bluffs Monitor Community newspaper.

Period D: We spent the first part of the period delivering papers. We filled in the Daily Report. We had a Mindfulness Meditation Sit.

Daily Report for Monday May 8th. 2017

Weather for Today: Sunny and Coolish….

HIGH : 11°C                     LOW : 1°C              P.O.P. :  30%

Period A: We began with our Mindfulness Minutes. We then went to No Frills to buy the groceries for the Wesak feast that we will be having on Thursday. We bought the ingredients for Vegetarian Lasagna.

Period B: We met Ms. Queen in S-7. We continued work on our Pillow projects. We also worked on Multi Media Cherry Blossom projects.

Period C: We went to the ME Kitchen to prep the vegetables for the lasagna. Matthew sliced the squash. Fahim worked on the squash as well. Rebeca and Emily sliced zucchini and onions. Ahmed and Shakur prepped the carrots. We went back to class and did our Weekend Journals.

Period D: We presented our Journals to the class.We filled in the Daily Report. We had a Mindfulness Meditation Sit.

Daily Report for Friday May 5th 2017

Weather for Today: Overcast, Rainy and Coolish….

HIGH : 10°C                     LOW : 7°C              P.O.P. : 100  %

Period A: We began with our Mindfulness Minutes. We had our weekly visit to the computer lab. While we were there we worked on various educational programs.

Period B: We met Ms. Queen in S-7. We continued to work on our Pillow project. We began we began work on the Maple Leaf logo’s we will be attaching to the pillow. Here are some pictures of us working in class…

Period C:  We had our weekly Yoga session. We watched a video which showed us how to do a warm up and then we went to another Web site which demonstrated different standing Asana’s. When we were done we did a Body Scan Mindfulness exercise.

Period D: We filled in the Daily Report. We had a Mindfulness Meditation Sit.

Daily Report for Thursday May 4th 2017

Weather for Today: Overcast and Rainy…

HIGH : 11°C                     LOW : 5°C              P.O.P. :  100%

Period A: We began with our Mindfulness Minutes. We then went to the ME Kitchen to prepare our lunch. Rebeca and Emily cut up the sweet peppers. Ahmed and Matthew cut up the celery and grated the cheese. The Sasitharan Boyz set the table and made the Limeaide. Shakur put raisins in the tart shells and helped with clean up. Fahim browned the ground beef.

Period B: We met Ms. Queen in S-7. We continued with our Canada          Bi-Centennial Pillow project. Today we used a sewing machine to stitch the pillow covers.

Period C: We met in the ME Kitchen and washed the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen. When we had finished we had some delicious fresh baked Butter Tarts for dessert. We then went back to Room 200 and got the Bluffs Monitor papers which we delivered in the nearby neighbourhood.

Period D: We filled in the Daily Report. We had a Mindfulness Meditation Sit.

Daily Report for Wednesday May 3rd 2017

Weather for Today: Sunny and Warm……

HIGH : 14°C                     LOW : 4 °C             P.O.P. :  10%

Period A: We began with our Mindfulness Minutes. We then did our weekly Current Events literacy activity. We cut picture from the 24 Hour Newspaper then completed the Current Event worksheets. When we had all finished with the worksheets we presented our work to the class.

Period B: We met Ms. Queen in S-7. We continued work on our pillow projects. Today we were sewing the pillow covers.

At lunch we went to the Dance Club where we continued work on the Bruno Mars dance number we hope to have ready for the Year End Assembly.

Period C:  We went for our weekly shopping trip to No Frills. We bought the groceries for tomorrow’s lunch. We will be having Taco’s, Burrito’s, Mexican Rice and Cole Slaw. We will be making some Butter Tarts for dessert.

Period D: We filled in the Daily Report. We had a Mindfulness Meditation Sit.

Daily Report for Tuesday May 2nd. 2017

Weather for Today: Overcast, Rainy and cool…

HIGH : 10°C                     LOW : 9°C              P.O.P. :  100%

Period A: Mark, Joel and Nerissa went to the Track and Field Meet at Birchmount stadium. Mr. Makan went as well. Mr. Wilkens was away this morning, we had Ms. Z for our supply teacher. Fahim, Ahmed and Emily went to their co-op placement at Giant Tiger. Once again they put clothes on hangers. Rebeca and Mathew did some cleaning in the classroom then went downstairs for some Hot Chocolate.

Period B: Matt and Rebeca went to S-7. They helped to set the table for the Maplewood Mindfulness Community Lunch . At 10:00 the co-op students returned to class. We worked on our Multimedia cherry blossom projects. Today we glued on the twigs with a glue gun.

Period C: We got the dishes from S-7 and took them to the ME Kitchen to wash. We went back to Room 200 and continued work on our Foods of the World Sorting flipchart. We then planned the menu and made the shopping list for Thursday’s lunch.

Period D: We filled in the Daily Report. We had a Mindfulness Meditation Sit.

Daily Report for Monday May 1st 2017

Weather for Today: Rainy and Cool….

HIGH : 15°C                     LOW : 6°C              P.O.P. :  100%

Period A: We began with our Mindfulness Minutes. We then did our Weekend Journal activity. We wrote in our journals what we had done over the weekend. When we had finished our writing we presented our work to the class.

Period B: We met Ms. Queen in S-7. We continued work on our Pillow projects. Today we sewed together pieces of fabric to make a pillow cover. We finished off the period with some coloring activity.

Period C: Joel, Mark and Nerissa went to the Track and Field  team practice. Since it was raining we had to practice in the gym. The rest of us worked with Mr. Wilkens on our Foods of the World Sorting activity on the Promethean Board.

Period D: We filled in the Daily Report. We had a Mindfulness Meditation Sit.

Note to Parents : Please see letter in communication book re: $3.00 fee for pillow form.