Does technology help your child to learn? Wrapping up our Chromebook Pilot Project

May 28, 2012

in From the Class website, Language Arts

Dear Parents / Guardians, The following letter was sent home with R7B on Fri May 25. It will go home to students in R7A on Mon May 28. Please complete the parent exit survey by Wed May 30. This time, it is only available on paper. If you have any questions or concerns about the [...]

An open letter to Mr Grignon and the Ottawa Carleton District School Board

May 28, 2012

in From the Class website, Language Arts

Dear Mr Grignon and the OCDSB, Thank you for a wonderful time with the chromebooks. It’s helped to improve the way I teach… This week, I will be drafting up the final report for the LDHSS chromebook pilot project. Later, this month, Mr Grignon will be combining our school report along with the other two [...]

Let’s see who is the most connected person in our class. There’s a secret message in this post about the Reading Assessment tomorrow – Thu May 24

May 24, 2012 From the Class website

Let us see who is the most connected person in our class. We have a reading assessment tomorrow (Thu May 24.) Here’s the test question: “Read the following text. What is the main idea? Use facts from the text to support your thinking.” It’s a pretty big deal, so we’ve spent the last two days [...]

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History Homework: Mapping out the Loyalist Migrations H93-H100

May 19, 2012 From the Class website

This week in History, we’ve been looking at the loyalist migrations to British North America. HOMEWORK: Students need to finish taking notes about the loyalist migrations (H93-100) using their printed maps or google Maps. We spent some time looking at the loyalists (H90-H92) on Wed May 16. Students looked at the questions on H92 #1,2,3ab [...]

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Compliments. Make the world a better place…

April 16, 2012 From the Class website

Today, we wrote compliments to each other based on a feel-good activity from a short story, All the Good Things, which was published in Chicken Soup for the Soul. Students are given a list of names and are asked to write down a compliment for each classmate. The teacher collects the pages and transcribes the work so that [...]

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How to study for the New France test on Tuesday Apr 10

April 6, 2012 From the Class website

Happy Long Weekend everyone. I hope you enjoy the four day weekend and I hope you get a chance to spend time with your families. Just to add to Ms Elgrably’s post about the end of our New France unit. This is our unit end test. Students are allowed to answer the test question using [...]

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Google Chromebook Parent Survey

March 25, 2012 From the Class website

Dear R7A / R7B Parent / Guardian, On Friday Mar 22, a letter went home explaining the Google Chromebook Pilot project that we are participating in. Here is an electronic copy of the letter and survey that went home: LDHSS R7A R7B Chromebook – Parent Letter & Survey (9) At this point in the pilot project, [...]

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After the March Break… Here we go!

March 18, 2012 From the Class website

Welcome Back! Hope you had a great March Break! 1. Please welcome Ms. Elgrably to our class Ms. Elgrably is a student teacher from Lakehead University. She will be joining us for the next five weeks. A prize to the first 3 students who introduce themselves to her and say, “Good Morning, Ms. Elgrably,” in a [...]

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This week in LDHSS Chromebook land… Literature Circles, History Quizzes, Reputation Points, and Technical Difficulties…

March 10, 2012 From the Class website

It’s been an exciting (and challenging week) with the chromebooks. This week, we did a few assessment activities in Google Docs: Parents / Guardians: If you have any questions, concerns or feedback about how the Chromebook Pilot Project is affecting your child’s learning, please don’t hesitate to contact me. This week, students did a Chromebook [...]

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Wow. We have some great Chromebook experts in our midsts

March 7, 2012 From the Class website

Love it. We have a little contest goin’ on to see who are our Chromebook experts. Right now… S332805571 is in the lead with 98 points (at the time of writing.) S070784285 is close behind with 96 points. S331394833 is a distant third with 47 points. And, I am trying to catch up with 46 [...]

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