Chloe Book Talk

WE Give

Our WE Give campaign was an overwhelming success!  The generosity of our St. Rose families is truly amazing.  As a school we TWO cars full of new toys and socks to donate to Divine Mercy and their Christmas giving program.  

Special thanks to our WE Act club for your announcements, posters, and enthusiasm as the gifts piled up in our classroom!  I am so proud of all of you!

Grade 8's Take A Stand Against Bullying

Why You Gotta Be So Mean?

Be an UPstander!

I love this song!  One of my favourite lines is "In God's Eye's We're All the Same,"  We all need to see the world with the same love and respect God does!  

Paracord Bracelets

Of all the videos I have watched, this one seems to clearly explain the process.

Steps to note:
1. Make middle section first - measure your wrist and make sure to add enough for the knot
2. For a 7-1.2 inch wrist, you will want about 3 feet of each colour

** Attaching the colours using a candle is a job for AN ADULT!

My Favourite Remembrance Day Video

We have spent a lot of time discussing and being thankful for those that have served for us.  Below you will find A Pittance In Time (my favourite Remembrance Day Video) as well as a presentation that we have created within our class.  Each student created a slide to share.

Click this link to see our class presentation:

Remembrance Day Clement

WE Act

Be sure to visit our WE Act page for frequent updates of our WE Act club.  

Sharing Documents

When sharing with me, please use laurieclement@mytools2go.ca ONLY and PLEASE uncheck the email box.

I am looking for:
1. Timeline
2. 1 page assignment (Population Density OR Pressing Problems)
3. Hand Poem
4. Geography Paragraph

Please Help!

Please help one of our groups currently participating in the 5 Most Pressing Problems by filling out this short survey.

Thank you!

Busy Week! Please mark your calendars.

Tuesday @ 2:00 - WE Create Change assembly

• introducing the organizations we will be supporting with our walk on Thursday 
• learn more about Free the Children and the Terry Fox Foundation by watching the videos posted earlier in the week

Wednesday - Meet the Teacher

• friendly reminder I will be in book fair.  If you would like to meet with me, just drop in there and I will be happy to chat

Wednesday - Friday - Book Fair @ St. Rose

• Wednesday is also picture day (bring your best smile)
• this is not for grad photos though, they will be taken later in the year

Thursday - WE Walk for Change

• we will be collecting loose change for the organizations mentioned above and will be walking as a school to Kiwanis Park and back

Friday - Student of the Month Assembly

• please join us for our first student of the month assembly @ 12:30
• grade 8's will take their place leading the DPA (daily physical activity) at the end of the assembly

WE Create Change

This week we kick off our Falcon Leadership Program with our We Create Change Walk.  This walk will support two charities that are very important to us.  We will be collecting loose change for Free the Children's Water Campaign as well as the Terry Fox Foundation.  I have included a few videos so that you can see how important each of these organizations are to the lives of others.

Keeping It Real...

2013 - 2014 Student Council Representatives

Congratulations to our 2013 - 2014 Student Council

Prime Minister: Kennedy
Deputy Prime Minister: Amelia
Minister of Finance: Samantha

Leadership T-Shirts

Forms went home today.  Information is as follows:

This year the grade 8 class has chosen the following quote for the back of their t-shirts: Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.  We would like to place the t-shirt order by Monday, September 16^th so that we can ensure we have them in plenty of time for our Muskoka Woods trip.  The cost of the t-shirt is $15.00.

National Math Contest

Congratulations on being the first daily winner.  Two days into the contest and we are still in 1st place!

Words To Live By!

Welcome Back Parent Information

The program that we are using as our classroom "dashboard" is having some technical difficulties. Until it is completely up and running, I will also post that information here.  Here is the information I posted on the first day. Please take some time to read through the information, bookmark our sites, set up Twitter and complete the Parent Form.  Thank you!

* Please take a minute to visit and bookmark the following.  It will help you to keep updated on things happening in our classroom as well as throughout the school.

* Our class website Clement's Class (this site)

* Check out our collaborative projects @ Global Students Global Perspectives

* Create a bookmark to our school site St. Rose Elementary School Portal 

* Follow our class on Twitter  @llclement.  If you don't have an account, no problem.  Simply go to Twitter.com and create one.  It's a great way in keep instantly updated.

* Follow St. Rose on Twitter @StRoseFalcons

* Parents, please take a few minutes to provide me with some basic contact information.  Click on this link to get to the form.  Thank you!

Attachment(s):

TechnologicallyTeaching.pdf(182.16 KB)
SeptemberWelcomeLetter.pdf(85.74 KB)

Apple Sales

Forms went home for apple sales.  They will be sold for $6.00 a bag and money will go directly toward your child's Muskoka Trip.

Sumdog's National Math Contest

The website Sumdog is currently hosting a National Math Competition that will run from Sept 6 - 12th.  After one day, we are currently sitting in 1st Place.  Check out the current leader boards.  I am so proud of all of you!

One Second Every Day

In an effort to really remember all of the moments in our Grade 8 year, we are creating a one second every day video.  If you have a few minutes, take a look at this Ted Talk featuring Cesar Kuriyama.  You will likely be as inspired as we were.   I can't wait to see the moments that September has in store for us.

Pictures for Graduation Video

We are starting a project where everyone is creating a timeline of their life. Each event needs to have a photo or clipart to go with it.  While everyone is looking at photos, we are also collecting our pictures for graduation. Everyone should bring in 3  pictures.  One from when they were a baby, one as a toddler and one from the junior years (grade 4 - 6).   All the pictures are going to be scanned.  If you have a scanner and can send a scanned copy, that would be fantastic!  Simply scan your pictures and email them to Mrs. Clement or bring them in on a jump drive.  We are hoping to have all pictures collected by the end of September.   Thanks!

Welcome Back!

It is so great having all of you back in my class again this year!  A special welcome to Amanda, Colbie, Sam and Jackson as well!   This is definitely going to be an exciting year!

Please Complete Survery

1. Please Complete Survey

2. Google |Presentation - Technology in School 101
* minimum 5 slides
* some samples of your favourite technology projects
* state why you liked it
* benefits of using technology (how did the technology enhance the learning process)
* looking back... select 2 completed tech projects... looking back, if you were to go back and enhance the projects you chose, what would you do differently?

3. IXL - probability activities
http://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-7

or Reflex Math if you remember

Gesstwood Highlights

Grade 7's are having a blast at Gesstwood.  Enjoy these picture highlights.

Talent Show Highlights!

Congratulations to Kennedy, Owen, Maggie, Samantha, Hailey, Hannah, Rachel, Amelia, Emma and Tianna on your outstanding performances in today's talent show.  We are very proud of all of you!   A special congratulations to Tianna who recently recorded Titanium by Sia in a recording studio.   Click here to hear Tianna sing.  It will download from my dropbox.  Enjoy!  We are so proud of her!

YouTube ...So Much More Than A Video Viewer

People of all ages find themselves watching YouTube videos on a daily basis.  Over 4 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube.  But did you realize that viewing videos is just the tip of the iceberg? 

Visit YouTube.com/editor to discover the possibilities of editing videos in the cloud.  Once you sign into the video editor on YouTube, you will be able to:

         

•      Combine multiple videos and images you've uploaded to create a new video

•      Trim your clips to custom lengths

•      Add music to your video from a library of approved tracks

•      Customize clips with special tools and effects

          

Edit videos that you have uploaded or find editable videos in the Creative Commons section to compliment what you are doing.  Once your video is complete, you can publish it to share it with others.

Check out this instructional video to help you get started:

Happy Editing!

Carly visits St. Joe's

Carly has now received over 500 responses from 12 different countries on her survey attempting to identify the 5 Most Pressing Global Issues.  Huge thanks to Mr. Barron and his grade 12 class for assisting Carly with her sorting out her responses.

Highlights of Carly's trip to St. Joe's High School

Life in the 1800's PLEASE COMPLETE TODAY

Please have ONE PERSON per group complete this form.

Life In the 1800's Assignment Info Sheet

May 3 - Lab Block

5 Most Pressing Global Issues:

• spend time researching the sites provided by Mr. Engstrom
• consider visiting the Free The Children Site @ http://www.freethechildren.com
• figure out between 5 - 8 topics that you feel are important and worth researching
• send an email to your group members - in your email you need to include what you feel are pressing issues, a few sentences telling them about the We Day and a link to the free the children site … encourage them to check it out as an additional resource
• include me in your email so that I know what your top 5 list includes laurie_clement@wecdsb.on.ca

Team Hungary

• they have had some holidays so that is why they may not have been posting.  
• their teacher said they would post by end of Friday
• if they have posted what they want to do, awesome!  Please read through the list of jobs they wish to do. More than one person will do each category. In our class... Everyone can work on their first choice as long as there are people in each category. Can someone from your group make a list of all the current jobs request from everyone in your group and share it with me on Google Docs. Thanks!
• If they have not posted... just be patient, they will
• I will also try and get on there to see if we can start assigning jobs.  For Hungary there will be more than one person working on each category.  

Team Croatia

• awesome job, yesterday.  I loved that everyone connected and we can get underway.  I saw they posted tons and plan to check that out soon.  I hope that we can begin posting our ideas as well
• please keep in mind they are just learning english like you learn french.  can you imagine speaking only french and about topics like geography, economics, political science, etc.  So please be understanding, kind and patient
• let’s also remember to be flexible in our ides.  Remember this is about collaborating and coming to decisions that make everyone happy.
• try to post your ideas under each category

Team Ireland

• Everyone has their jobs assigned, I would like to see everyone posting their ideas under the appropriate category
• let’s also remember to be flexible in our ides.  Remember this is about collaborating and coming to decisions that make everyone happy.

Team Canada

• I am expecting to see ideas posted in each category by Monday
• I am creating a site and will share it with you
• please post on the site who is responsible for which job

Anyone that has completed their tasks is to work on the history project.

I have also sent out a form for you to use to tell me what your history topic will be.  ONE person from each group is to complete it.  Thanks!

Please help!

We are looking for your help.  Carly is taking part in an international project with students in Brazil and the USA.  As a group they are identifying what they feel are the 5 Most Pressing Global Issues.  Please take a minute to fill out this very short survey to assist Carly.  It should only take a minute.  Thank you very much!

5 Most Pressing Global Issues Survey

It's All Greek To Me!

We celebrated the end of our Greek Mythology unit with a Toga Party and potluck.  Thank you to everyone for all of the amazing food!