Learning In New Ways
What is your favourite invention of 2013?
Is it the driverless toy car, Sony’s Smart Lens, a new style of motorcycle, the invisible skyscraper, Nest Protect Smoke Alarm or the Amazing Gravity Light?
Browse and choose your favourite.
Tell us why it’s your favourite…do you have a personal connection to the new invention or do you just think it’s amazing for what it can do for others….
Follow the link to choose your favourite:
Follow this style of poetry and create a mood or a feeling surrounding winter.
It is finally here!
Winter is a time for me where I am torn between the good and the bad. Winter is snow forts and having fun outside in the powdery white stuff. Winter is also getting stuck in traffic due to the weather. Winter is a nice, warm cup of hot chocolate. Winter is cold fingers. Winter is Canada and winter means ice hockey. Winter is many grey days without our friend “Mr. sunshine”. Winter is warm sweaters. Winter is thinking of those sleeping outside in the cold and hoping they get can get some warmth inside. Winter is a cold classroom. Winter is wearing snow boots and all the warm battle wear to combat the cold. Winter is shoveling late at night. Winter is a season that has its’ ups and downs.
In Canada, Remembrance Day is a federal holiday – except for in Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Quebec and Ontario.
The discussion on if Remembrance Day should be a holiday in Ontario has resurfaced once again. Provinces such as Nova Scotia have a day off school for all students on Remembrance Day.
Are there benefits to being at school on this day, to reflect to question?Or, should this be a day as in 8 other provinces where students can reflect at home or go to a war memorial with family or friends or whatever they feel is right for them.
Write a paragraph outlining your opinion if Ontario should make Remembrance Day be a holiday for all students.
Why do you think this?
Express your opinion using your own experiences with Remembrance Day and the video/article to help support your point of view.
We are all interested to hear about your opinion and read your ideas.
News Article:
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We live in a world where texting, tweeting and instant messenging or writing messages on a DS is a part of who you are as learners. Is spelling no longer important in 2013? If you think this way then you probably believe that spell check, invented spelling and other ways of communicating are more important than spelling a word exactly or the way the dictionary says . OR…. If you think that spelling tests, the dictionary and correct spelling is as important to you today as it was 100 years ago then you believe that correct spelling is very important.
Please explain why you think this…back up your answer and “check for errors..ooops…did I say that?”
Here are two articles that may help you:
http://www.growingkids.co.uk/effect-text-messaging-spelling.html
or http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/12/spelling-is-it-important-to-do-it-properly.html
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Homework 1 – click here for the homework instructions.
A descriptive paragraph explains an image, video, song or anything with adverbs (words that describe an action; runfast)and adjectives (words that describe a noun; black hair).
Look at these pictures.
Pick one picture and explain in a detailed paragraph or poem words what you see. Talk us through in detail with adjectives and adverbs what is going on in your image that you chose.
Don’t tell us which image you chose…as readers, we will try and guess which one you are explaining.
According to our calendar, September 22nd is the 1st day of fall.
Example to follow (read first)
Fall is…
Fall is a time of comfort and change. It consists of days where you want to curl up and watch a movie under a warm blanket. Fall is a time of year that brings the end of hot weather…so it’s time to wear jeans more often than shorts.Fall is seen in the fun of picking out a pumpkin. Fall is apple picking. Fall is getting outdoors and going for a bike ride. Fall is great golf and the beginning of football. Fall is slowly falling red and orange leaves. Fall is a season that brings hope that winter doesn’t come for a while.
Fall is a season of comfort and change
First, Write a top ten list explaining what you are excited for this year or tell us what your top ten moments this week have been.
Second, Write a “tweet” that is less than 140 characters in length about this year so far. Example:
This class is fantastic and people are nice. Looking forward to doing
fun things with my friends this year #gradefiverocks
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