Daily Report for Wednesday September 11th 2019

Weather for Today: Sunny and Hot….

High:  26°C          LOW :  18°C                   P.O.P. :  20%

Period A: Khina and Frances set up the Staff Dining Room. Aaliyah wrote the menu on the whiteboard. Aaisha, Daidrean and Deondre shucked some corn on the cob for Fridays School Roast. For the last part of the period we used the laptops in the classroom.

Period B: We had our Morning Mindfulness Minutes. Today we began our Lunch Program activity. We started out by coming up with a menu of healthy foods we could make for lunch tomorrow. We decided to have Grilled Cheese Sandwich’s with Tomato Soup and Garden Salad. We will also be having Apple Pie for dessert. When we had finished with the menu we created a shopping list of the ingredient’s we will need to make our lunch tomorrow.

Period C: We did a spelling activity where Mr. Wilkens read out words to us and we wrote them out. We then used the IWB to do an on-line spelling test.

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

Note to Parents: We will be having our Class Lunch Program tomorrow. Students do not need to bring a lunch.

Daily Report for Tuesday September 10th 2019

Weather for Today: Partly Cloudy and Warmish…

High:  23°C          LOW :  15°C                   P.O.P. :  20%

Period A: Aaisha and Aaliyah wrote the menu on the whiteboard. Frances and Khina set up the staff dining room. Deandre, Daidrean, Aaliyah and Aaisha made a dipping sauce and put it into containers. Frances also washed some carrots. Maryam made a spice mixture.

Period B: Mr. Wilkens was in a training session for the IWB. We had a supply teacher for the period. We did a Current Events Activity. We cut out a picture from the Metro Newspaper and pasted it on to our worksheet. We then filled in the answers to the questions on the worksheet. When we had finished we presented our work to the class.

Period C: We continued working on our “My Heritage” projects. Today we were able to do Aaisha, Khina and Maryam’s projects.

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

Daily Report for Monday September 9th 2019

Weather for Today: Partly Cloudy and Warm….

High:  19°C          LOW :  13°C                   P.O.P. :  20%

Period A: Khina and Frances prepped the Grilled Cheese sandwich’s. The Boyz (Daidrean and Deandre) prepped some Chicken Fingers. Aaliyah helped to prep the salad bar. Maryam helped to put out some cookies on a tray. Khina and Frances helped to set up the Staff Dining Room. We all helped to clean up the kitchen at the end of the class.

Period B: We had our Morning Mindfulness Minutes. We did our Weekend Journal Activity. Mr. Wilkens used the IWB to demonstrate how to write a journal entry. We then wrote in our journals some of the things we had done over the weekend. When we had all finished writing our entries, we presented our work to the class.

Period C: We used the IWB to do a project on our different national Heritage’s. We worked on the project together. Today we were able to look at Aaliyah’s Trinidadian Heritage as well as Frances Philippines Heritage and The Boyz (Daidrean and Deandre)  Heritage, both of whom have Jamaican heritage.    

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

Note to Parents: Friday is Picture Day. See information in Communication Book.

Daily Report for Friday September 6th 2019

Weather for Today: Overcast with Rain and Warm…

High:  20°C          LOW :  13°C                   P.O.P. :  100%

Period A: Deondre and Daidrean helped to make some Marinara Sauce. AAisha and Aaliyah made some Chocolate Brownies. Daidrean helped with the clean up using the Hobart Dishwasher. Deondre helped to clean the tables.

Period B: We used the IWB to do some Yoga exercises. Today we did a series of sitting Asana’s (postures). Some of the postures were very hard to do, but we did our best. We then did a Body Scan Mindfulness exercise.

Period C: We learned a little about the four seasons. We then watched some videos on Autumn (or fall). We also learned about why leaves change color. We then filled in some coloring pages of leaves.

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

Daily Report for Thursday September 5th 2019

Weather for Today: Sunny and Warm…

High:  22°C          LOW :  11°C                   P.O.P. :  0%

Period A: In Food school today we were quite busy. Khina and Frances put out some bacon on a baking sheet. Deondre, Aaliyah and Daidrean helped to unload the delivery truck.

Period B: We had our Morning Mindfulness Minutes. We then went to the Community kitchen to make some Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Period C: We went to the Computer Lab in Room 204 where worked on various educational programs.

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

Daily Report Wednesday September 4th 2019

Weather for Today: Overcast and Warm…

High:  20°C          LOW :  15°C                   P.O.P. :  30%

Period A: In Food School today we were given our kitchen uniform, an apron and a hairnet, that we will be wearing this week while we work in the kitchen. Frankie and Khina cut up some carrots. The rest of us were kept very busy shelling peas. Daidrean helped with the dishes, Aaisha and Aaliyah cleaned the tables which Deondre then dried off.

Period B: We had our Morning Mindfulness Minutes. We then made some posters to put up in class with our names and birth dates.

Period C: Using both the IWB and some plastic money, we completed a number of Money Math activities.

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

Daily Report for Tuesday, September 3rd 2019

Weather for Today: Overcast and Hotish….

High:  22°C          LOW :  16°C                   P.O.P. :  30%

Period A: We began our first day of school in the Food School with Ms. Smith as our teacher. Today we were given our schedules’ and some paperwork for us to bring home and bring back to school.

Period B: We began with a short guided mindfulness meditation. We then did a journal writing activity. We were given a DuoTang folder with some blank pages and were required to write a short journal entry describing some of what we had done over the summer.

Period C: Mr. Wilkens used the classroom IWB (Interactive Whiteboard ) to give us an idea of some of the things we will be doing in class this year.

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

Note to Parents: