Friday 28 February 2014

Making Connections...

In class we will be working on making "deep" level connections with the books we are reading. Here are a few sentence starters to help us on our way.

This reminds me of .......

I have a connection......

An experience I have had like that...

This reminds me of the book ____________because...

This book has made me think about.....

This is like the time....

The part of the story when _______ made me feel....

Wednesday 26 February 2014

Making Connections

Learning Goal - Today we are learning to make strong connections to other texts, ourselves, and the world

What is are "strong" connections?
What does that mean?

Kidahne - Something important in your life.
Rafeed - More details
Mantaka - Specific examples
Abdul - Important reasons

Tuesday 18 February 2014

Black History Month - Puppet Pals

Here are the groups for the Black History Month presentations:

Abdul and Samin -Muhammad Ali
Mantaka and Nazifa - Harriet Tubman
Hamza and Aryan - Malcolm X
Nuha and Faiza - Martin Luther King
Talia and Sierra- Michelle Obama
Kidahne and Dagmawit - Rosa Parks
Munibah, Zuhal, and Anjela - William Kamkwamba
Ansar and Shamail - Nelson Mandela
Jawad, Rafeed, Anas -
Ridita and Samia - Mama Miti

Barack Obama
Wangari
Langston Hughes
Willie Mays
Jesse Owens


Wednesday 12 February 2014

What We Know About The First Peoples of Canada

As we learn about the First Nation People who lived in Canada we will be adding information to our blog. Some of the information on this list is accurate and other pieces of information are things we "think" are accurate. We will be updating this information as we learn. 

Samin - There were 5 tribes - Iriquius
Mantaka - Wendat were a type of First Nation
Rafeed - Mohawk
Mantaka - Wendat and Iriquois were enemies
Mantaka - Enemies couldn't be killed right away. They had to do it slowly.
Dagma - To get food they killed animals.
Anjela - They killed animals to get clothing
Abdul - Animal bones were made into weapons.
Mantaka - Vikings landed in Labrador. 
Kidahne - Europeans and First Nations traded tobacco and wheat.
Mantaka - One of the first Europeans to come was a monk.
Dagma - Vikings named Iceland Greenland.
Nazifa - They hunted Caiboo 

Tuesday 11 February 2014

Paper Boycott

The Paper Boycott
By Aryan
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Our class room 212 in Oakridge J.P.S(Junior Public School)are planning to stop paper waste in our school. There are some solutions we are discussing to stop paper boycott. Some solutions are to write the announcement on our Agendas,by sending mails,write it on a sticky note and e.t.c. There is a reason why we are this. The reason is there are more than 800 student in our school which means that every time an announcement needs to go home it takes 800 sheets of paper! It would take 8,000 sheets of paper if there was 10 announcements! This is why we are this for our school and for T.D.S.B.(Toronto District School Board)

Monday 10 February 2014

Writing an Argument - Recess

Today in class we were learn to plan a balanced argument. We learned that when writing a successful argument we should be able to argue our view, as well as look at the opposite point of view. 

Today we looked at the argument: Recess should be longer.

Here are some reasons why:

To get physical activity - Samin

Because the government wants us to be more active - Aryan

Some clubs are at recess and a lot of clubs don't have time to finish their work - Mantaka

You will have more time to finish your homework at recess - Rafeed

Students have more time to finish their food - Abdul

You get to have more fun and play more - Shamail

More time to go to the washroom and get a drink - Samin

If students got recess taken away, they may still have time to go outside after their punishment. - Samin

In winter the longer you move the warmer you might get - Dagma

Reasons recess should be shorter:

People would complain less about the cold - Nazifa
People who don't like the cold won't have to stay out for as long - Rafeed

Less kids end up getting injured - Jawad

The kids who are lazy and don't want to play wants it to be shorter - Aryan

Some kids actually like doing work instead of recess - Shamail 

Get extra help from a teacher - Samin

School is place of learning and not break time - Nuha