Daily Report for Monday May 14th 2018

Weather for Today: Partly Cloudy and Quite Warm…

High:  24°C                   LOW :  7°C                   P.O.P. :  10%

Period A : Brandon and Nerissa went to the Special Olympics Media Event at Toronto Police H.Q. The rest of us had our Mindfulness Minutes. We then did our Weekend Journal activity. We wrote in our journals some of the things we had done over the weekend. When we had all finished writing in our journals we presented our work to the class.

Period B : We met Ms. McDonald in the gym. We began with the Twelve Minute Run. Then we went outside to practice our baseball skills.

Here are some videos of Mark and Fahim doing hteir thing....

Period C: We began a new project today. Those of us who made a pillow in Ms. Queens class last year, will be making some fabric handbags. Those who did not make a pillow last year will be making one this year.

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

Daily Report for Tuesday May 8th 2018

Daily Report for Tuesday May 8^th 2018

Weather for Today: Sunny and Hotish….

High:  °C             LOW :  °C            P.O.P. :  %

Period A : Amena and Fahim went to their co-op p[placement at Giant Tiger. Ahmed and Nerissa went on the Walk for Excellence. We had our Mindfulness Minutes. The rest of us used the IWB to find some images that we will be using to make a Wesak banner to put in the hall outside of our classroom.

Period B : We went to the ME kitchen to make some Chocolate Chip Cookies. Fahim read out the recipe and told us what we needed for the “Mise en Place” ( getting all of the needed ingredient’s together prior to making the cookies ) We then all took turns measuring out the different ingredient’s. We used the Mixer to mix the cookie dough then we all made some cookies. Mr. Wilkens then baked off the cookies.

Period C: We continued to work on our Floral decorated Potholders.

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

Daily Report for Monday May 7th 2018

Weather for Today: Sunny and Warmish…

High:  16°C                   LOW : 9 °C                   P.O.P. :  0%

Period A : We had our Mindfulness Minutes. We did the Daily Report from last Friday that we did have enough time for on Friday. Then we did our Weekend Journal activity. We wrote in our journals some of the things that we had done over the weekend. When we had finished writing in our journals we presented our work to the class.

Period B : We met Ms. McDonald in the gym. We began with the 12 minute run. We then warmed up by using the parachute. Here is a video of us using the parachute…

 

After we had warmed up we played a game of indoor soccer.

Period C: We continued working on our Mother’s Day project, a floral decorated potholder.

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

Daily Report for Friday May 4th 2018

Weather for Today: Sunny and Warmish…

High:  24°C                   LOW :  18°C                 P.O.P. :  40%

Period A : We had our Mindfulness Minutes. We went to the Computer Lab where we worked on various educational programs.

Period B : We used the IWB to do a session of Hatha Yoga. We did some breathing exercises and also some Asanas. We then did a Body Scan Mindfulness exercise.

Period C: We continued work on our fabric Potholders.

Period D: We went for a Community Walk. Since it was so nice out we walked all the way to the Guild Inn. We did not have time to fill in the Daily Report. 

Daily Report for Thursday May 3rd 2018

Weather for Today: Rainy and Hot ( Humid! )…..

High:  21°C                   LOW : 16 °C                 P.O.P. : 100 %

Period A : Nerissa went to her co-op placement at Giant. The rest of us had our Mindfulness Minutes. We then went to the ME Kitchen where we watched Mr. Wilkens make some Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Period B : Mr. Wilkens then demonstrated various types of cuts used in cooking. He showed us how to cut julienne strips as well as three types of dice, small, medium and large. We then got a chance to practice making various cuts.

Here are some pictures of us practicing our knife skills.

Period C: We started a new project today. We will be making florally decorated potholders. Hopefully, we have them done in time for Mothers Day.

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

Daily Report for Wednesday May 2nd 2018

Weather for Today: Overcast and Hotish…

High:  25°C                   LOW :  18°C                 P.O.P. : 40 %

We had our Mindfulness Minutes. We had to wait for Mark to get here as his bus was late. When Mark got here we took the Scarborough 86 bus to Kennedy Station. We got on the Line 2 subway and took it all the way to High Park Station. That’s 25 stops ! We then walked to High Park. Unfortunately the Cherry Blossoms had not come out yet. We still had a good time. We saw different animals, like Llama’s, Reindeer, Bison and Emu’s. We ate our Picnic lunch beside Grenadier Pond. At around 12:30 we started walking back to the subway. We got on the subway at High Park and came back to school.

Here is a picture of Shakur trying to pull a sword from a stone, just like King Arthur….

 

Here is a picture of all of us standing on some stairs in the park…

When we got back to school we filled in the Daily Report. We had a Mindfulness Meditation sit.

Daily Report for Tuesday May 1st 2018

Weather for Today: Partly cloudy and quite warm….

High:  25°C                   LOW :  5°C                   P.O.P. : 40 %

Period A : We had our Mindfulness Minutes. We walked to Food Basics to buy the groceries that we will need to make a picnic lunch for tomorrow’s field trip to High Park.

Period B : When we got back from Food Basics we went to the ME Kitchen to drop off the groceries. We then went out to the field to take pictures for Sports teams and Clubs. When we had finished we went to the gym where we got to practice our basketball skills.

Period C: We went to the ME Kitchen to make our picnic lunch for tomorrow. We made Curry Chicken Wraps and Cole Slaw.

Period D: We finished packing our lunches. We filled in the Daily Report. We had a Mindfulness Meditation sitting.