Sunday 23 March 2014
A Great Site For Parents
Here is a wonderful site for parents who would like to continue their education. Coursera is a site that offers FREE, online courses from various universties around the world. This education platform provides access to world-class education, in many languages. This is educational equity! Check it out! You may be inspired to learn something new, improve your knowledge about an area of interest, or study something that helps you to further your career or enrich your life. Click here for the link.
Monday 17 March 2014
Keyboard Practice
As you will be using computers for writing as well as researching, you will need to improve your keyboarding skills. The site below helps you learn where the letters are on the keyboard, and increase your typing speed. This will make it easier for you to write stories and others texts on the computer. Try to work through the levels, and go back and practise as many times as you like.
Click here to go to the site.
Friday 7 March 2014
New Year Celebrations - Social Studies
New Year in India - Vaisakhi / Ugahi / Vishu (March 15-April 15)
Part of our Social Studies curriculum is an ongoing study of Traditions and Celebrations in Canada and around the world. As there are many cultural groups in Canada, learning about other communities and their various traditions increases students' understanding of other cultures. They see that although people are the same in many ways, their traditions and cultures can be very different and interesting.
As we celebrated Chinese New Year at school, we also studied the New Year traditions of some other cultures. Groups of students researched various celebrations and traditions, and then presented their information to the class in the form of a group poster.
Below, you will see the four posters the students collaborated on and the criteria for the project.
The criteria the students focused on while making their posters.
Chinese (Lunar) New Year - Nian (Festival of the Year)
Jewish New Year - Rosh Hashanah (Head of the Year)
Persian (Iranian) New Year - NoRuz (New Day)
Japanese New Year - Oshogatsu (New Year's holidays)
The students all individually assessed various cooperative learning skills that they observed during the times their group worked together. Every group found that they still need to work on cooperating with each other - an essential skill for all students. We will continue to address this skill in class.
Next, during the group presentations, students used a checklist to assess the posters and presentations of their peers. Every group met the poster criteria - some with more success than others. As a result, one poster was rated at Level 4-, another at 3+, and two at 3. This assessment piece really helped students to examine the posters closely, and see where they could make improvements on their next project.
Part of our Social Studies curriculum is an ongoing study of Traditions and Celebrations in Canada and around the world. As there are many cultural groups in Canada, learning about other communities and their various traditions increases students' understanding of other cultures. They see that although people are the same in many ways, their traditions and cultures can be very different and interesting.
As we celebrated Chinese New Year at school, we also studied the New Year traditions of some other cultures. Groups of students researched various celebrations and traditions, and then presented their information to the class in the form of a group poster.
Below, you will see the four posters the students collaborated on and the criteria for the project.
The students all individually assessed various cooperative learning skills that they observed during the times their group worked together. Every group found that they still need to work on cooperating with each other - an essential skill for all students. We will continue to address this skill in class.
Next, during the group presentations, students used a checklist to assess the posters and presentations of their peers. Every group met the poster criteria - some with more success than others. As a result, one poster was rated at Level 4-, another at 3+, and two at 3. This assessment piece really helped students to examine the posters closely, and see where they could make improvements on their next project.
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