Daily Report for Thursday September 30th. 2015

Weather for Today: Partly Cloudy and Cool…

HIGH: 15°C                   LOW: 4°C                    P.O.P : 0%

Period A: We started out by bringing our mixed media projects to show the office staff. We then put them in the foyer showcase. When we got back to class Ms. Queen told us about our next project.

Period B: We prepared our lunch . Mr. Wilkens demonstrated how to assemble the lasagna using the marinara sauce that we had made two weeks ago which we had canned. He showed us how to layer the sauce, noodles and cheese to make the lasagna. While the lasagna was cooking in the oven we all helped to get our lunch ready. Emily and Rebecca washed and spun dried the romaine lettuce for the Caesar Salad. Keyur grated the parmesan cheese. Fahim mixed the fruit punch. Scottie and Ahmed helped to clean up. Myron and Ahmed prepared the garlic bread. Keyur and Rebeca helped to make the chocolate chip cookies. We then sat down for another fantastic meal !

Period C: We all worked hard at helping to clean up the kitchen/classroom. We had our dessert of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies with vanilla ice cream. Keyur, Myron and Ahmed set up the Wii game that Ms. Merlin had brought in. Nerissa , Emily and Rebeca went to their co-op placement at Dollarrama where they worked hard at shelves under the direction of the co-op Educational assistant, Ms. Cameron.

Period D: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the daily report. We had our daily Mindfulness

Daily Report for Wednesday September 30th 2015

Weather for Today: Sunny and Cool…

HIGH : 17°C                 LOW : 11°C                  P.O.P.: 30%

Period A: We finished off our Three Dimensional Mixed Media Pictures. We finished off the gluing of the twigs and the birds. Ms. Queen will be displaying the picture tomorrow night at Parents Night.

Period B& C (It was a short day schedule because of Terry Fox Run ): We began as usual with our Mindfulness Minutes. We then went for our weekly shopping trip to No Frills. We bought the ingredients  for Lunch Program lunch tomorrow. We will be having Lasagna, Caesar Salad, and Garlic Bread. When we got back to class we put away the groceries.

Period D: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the Daily Report. Mr. Wilkens gave us the Tie Dye T Shirts  we made yesterday. Here is a picture of us wearing our shirts….

Note to Parents: Lunch Program Tomorrow, send no lunch.

Daily Report for Monday September 28th 2015

Weather for Today: Cloudy and Rain…

HIGH : 22°C                 LOW : 18°C                  P.O.P. : 10%

Period A: We continued work on our latest project. Today we choose the birds we wanted to put in our picture and colored them in. Though it was a short day,some of us even managed to attach the birds to the colored background.

Period B: We began with our Mindfulness Minutes. We started out by writing in our weekend journal.We did not have time to present our journal's to the class as this was a short day. We then began work on some Tie Dye T Shirts that we hope to have ready by Wednesday for the Terry Fox Run. After Mr. Wilkens had pre=soaked the shirts in a salt and sodium  carbonate solution, we learned how to tie the shirts in a spiral pattern, with cotton twine.

Period C:  we continued to work on our T shirts. We even managed to do a little clean up before lunch.

Period D: Owing to the short day we only had time to do our daily Mindfulness Meditation sitting. We did a guided meditation from the Insight Timer App on Mr. Wilkens cell phone.

Daily Report for Friday September 25th 2015

Weather for Today: Partly Cloudy and Warm…

HIGH : 20°C                           LOW : 13°C                  P.O.P. : 10%

Period A: We continued work on our latest art project. We used watercolor paint to do a color wash on the paper background.

Period B: We had our Mindfulness Minutes. We went to the computer lab where we worked on various educational programs. Today there was a special fund raising activity for Terry Fox. It was a school wide dodge ball competition in the gym. We went to it and had a lot of fun !

Period C: Today was our first day of day of Yoga instruction. Unfortunately there was a fire drill scheduled at the beginning of the period so we only got to do yoga for the second half of the period. Still, it was a great beginning !

Period D: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the Daily Report. We had our daily mindfulness meditation sitting.

Note to Parents: Monday is a short Staff Meeting Day. Bus p/u at 12:15

Daily Report for Thursday September 24th 2015

Weather for Today: Sunny and Warm….

HIGH: 21°C                  LOW : 21°C                      P.O.P.: 20%

Period A: As we had to go to an assembly in Period B, we did not go to our sewing class today. Instead we stayed in Mr. Wilkens class to prepare our lunch. We all got to make our own personal pizza using Nan Bread as the crust.

Period B: We had our Mindfulness Minutes. Then we went to the cafeteria for a Terry Fox Assembly. We learned about Terry Fox and also heard about some of the things going on in our school to raise funds for this worthy cause.

Period C: We had a delicious dessert of Brownies and Ice cream. We then finished cleanup of the class and kitchen. Then we finished off the Terry Fox banner that we put up outside our classroom.

Period D: We did our classroom jobs. We filled in the Daily Report. We had our daily Mindfulness Meditation sitting.

Note to Parents: Please send in a set of gym clothes with your son/daughter. Shorts/track pants, sweatshirt/T Shirt and runni

Daily Report for Wednesday September 23rd 2015

Weather for Today: Sunny and Warm…

HIGH : 22            LOW: 10                       P.O.P.: 10%

Period A: We started a new project. We are going to make framed watercolor pictures. Today we started by painting the frames. We then went to get our pictures taken but it was too busy !

Period B: We went to No Frills to buy groceries for tomorrow’s lunch. Ahmed was the class leader on the trip. We bought the ingredient’s to make personal Pizza’s. When we got back to school we had our pictures taken.

Period C: We had our (delayed) Mindfulness Minutes. We then did an art activity where we colored in decorations about the upcoming Terry Fox Run.

Period D: 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 September 22nd 2015

Weather for Today: Sunny and Warm…

HIGH: 21         LOW: 10          P.O.P. : 10%

Period A: We got the last of our Tie Dye projects finished. We then went for a walk around the school grounds to collect twigs and branches for a future art project.

Period B: We began with our Mindfulness Minutes. Myron and Keyur set the table for the Maplewood Mindfulness Community. We then had our drama activity. We had two games of Musical Chairs. Rebeca won the first game and Myron won the second. We then did our Circle Dance.

Period C: Rebeca and Fahim loaded the dishwasher. Then we had an artistic critique of our ceramic Gecko’s. We learned some more about glazing techniques. Keyur and Scottie started a Level 2 co-op placement in the school library. Myron then led the class on a Community Walk.

Period D: We did our classroom job’s. We filled in the Daily Report. We had our daily mindfulness meditation sitting.

Note to Parents; Tomorrow is Picture Day. Check agenda’s for Info Sheet on Terry Fox Run.