Friday, April 3, 2020 The Corona classroom

Hello, Shine-on Parents and students,

I hope this post finds you all happy and healthy at home.  I have touched base with all of you now and am happy to hear that you are all eager to meet up in the coming week on Zoom.  First things first, one of the EAs will be contacting you personally or your parents to see how you are doing and show you how to use Zoom.  You can do some practice runs and then  by Thursday, April  9, we will get a chance to see each "virtually."

In the meantime, make sure you are getting outside and walking, or working in the yard or doing a workout. 

It is important at these times to keep moving. If you are bored - here are some activities you might want to try.  Send me a video of you dancing, or with your Diy playdough or a picture of your fancy rocks.


Here is a link to Just Dance :

Just Dance 2019 l Stitches by Shawn Mendes 

Here is a fun art project:  Fancy Rocks

Step one:  go for a walk to the beach or along a trail or in your backyard and select some stones.

Step two: set up a work station with paints, paintbrushes, water, newspaper and the rocks

Step three: paint the alphabet on your rocks, or pictures, or even make them into Easter eggs.

Step Four:  Let dry and when they are done you can give them as gifts, use them yourself or lay them on a walking trail for someone else to find!

Here is also a nice make yourself playdough recipe to try with supplies you will probably have at home.

Enjoy your weekend!

Monday, March 30, 2020 - SHINE-ON: The Covid Classroom

Good Morning and Welcome Back!

Parents and students:

These certainly are crazy times and attending school is going to be a bit of an experiment. At the moment, I am deciding on the best platform for our Shine-on class to use and in the next few days, I will be phoning home to discuss with your parents some ideas I have for learning at home.

There are some tools that will be important to get familiar with and one of those is Zoom.  Have you used it yet?  It is a great way for our class to have social time and a chance for each of us to share our ideas and thoughts.  It is important when using Zoom to take turns and so this will be a real test of our listening skills and our patience.  However, it will also be an opportunity for each of us to catch up, EAs too! 

Here is a link to zoom:  Zoom sign-up

ROUTINE:  The most important step you will need to set up this week is a routine. Disruptions to our usual routine can be extremely stressful and so it important to keep a regular schedule even when we are not in school. A regular schedule helps maintain a sense of normalcy and stability.  As a family, it is good to set up a regular weekday schedule including.

• a regular bedtime, wake-up and mealtimes
• getting showered, dressed and ready for school (even though you are at home)
• time for learning
• time for breaks
• daily physical activity
• daily communication with friends and family

Once I have a private learning forum set-up I will try my best to help each of you set up a daily routine with time to learn, time to create, time to exercise and time to read.

I look forward to hearing from each of you.  Please feel free to email me with your questions.  You are welcome to send me a video to let me know how you are doing.

To start today I have two yoga classes that you may like to join:

1. Cosmic yoga: This is a more junior styled class ( TV, TJ and JJ enjoy this yoga)

2. Sunrise yoga: This is a more senior styled class (This would be great for JL, HD, TG, PG, JW)

Do not forget to wash your hands before you leave the house and first thing when you get home:

 Video:  Wash those hands!

Senior Life Skills: "Shine On"

This is a place for students, TTOCs and parents to see what our days are like at "Shine-On." I will be posting our day plan and activities, as well as lessons and links to interesting sites.

I hope you will find this helpful.

Genocide Studies 12

Test

Spider Humanities, Friday June 6th

All assignments need to be handed in (you have until June 14th to have all your assignments done for this semester)


1. Housekeeping: What is due. Endings and New Beginnings

2. Current Events: How to turn a protest into powerful Change  What it is to be an active citizen.
a) What is happening in Germany: Rezo the YouTube Influencer.
b)Green Party makes big gaines in the EU
c) New polls released in Germany shows that Green Party would win if there were and election:
 
3. Major Themes of this semester.  I want you to think critically here and do not mix up theme with topic and search for the deeper meaning of what we have been learning: Form small groups and work together come up with at least three themes.  Use my blog to spur your memories.

For example: Not: We learned about Christianity Rather: Learning about religions brings a sense of tolerance rather than fear and misunderstanding. 
Not: we learned about the environment Rather: Learning that change happens   
through a variety of ways such as 

4 Wild Fires Continued
The steps to making a safe campfire.
What is the number *_ _ _ _ _

BREAK

4, Talking about the Novel - asking some of the important questions

5.  Whose Phone is This
Time to work on this project.  Will be due next week.

1. Wallpaper:  Sketch the character's cell phone Wallpaper choice with coloured pencils/ or a magazine collage of images. Then explain why this image choice would appeal to this character.

2. Email or Text - this character just received two messages. Thinking back over the reading, explain which other characters just sent message to this character and what is the content of  each message.

3. Playlist/ Movie/ Series list - Write three song titles with artists names that would likely be on this character's playlist. Be sure to explain your reasoning as to why these three songs would appeal to this character.

ie. "Waiting on the world to change" by John Mayer -  Jett has gone through so much in the last few months that he is kind of wishing that the world would stop so he could get off.  So, he would want change to happen - he just doesn't realize that he is integral in making change happen.

Homework: Finishing off the phone sheets. Next week we meet with Kaia to celebrate our last day of Spider Classes.

Message from Kara: I am going to miss you all and hope that I will have the lucky opportunity to teach you again. 

Spider Humanties, Friday, May 31, 2019

TODAY, YOUR LEARNING GUIDES ARE DUE!!!!!

1. Housekeeping

2. Current Events:

1. First 3 minutes: Wildfires in Alberta
2.  Smoke Season Comes Early to BC 
3. Do you know the number to call?  *_ _ _ _  
4. Activity on Paper: Fire Succession and Should forest fires be put out?
5. Activity:  BC Wildfire Prevention Guide
6. Mentimeter: Burning Issues 
7.  Isaac's link: World Protest Day September 20th

3. English Focus:

Starting off: 

1. What does consequence mean? Can you explain and give an example?
2.  Have you experienced an instance in your life when you needed to pay more attention but didn't? What consequences, did you face as a result?
3. Have you experienced an argument with a friend and/sibling? How did you reconcile?
4. Have you ever had to own something that you have done that was uncomfortable to do?
5. Have you had a moment of courage that you have overcome a huge challenge.

This is a captivating story of betrayal and forgiveness written in free verse.

Ebb & Flow by Heather Smith: Discussion Questions

Spider Humanities, Friday May 24, 2019

IT'S "FREE-FRIDAY"

This means that as a class you have accumulated enough points to have a fun Humanities Day.  You have chosen a Pizza Party and a trip to Hackett Park for a game of capture the flag.

Congratulations on all your hard work!!

1.  Housekeeping:  

My goodness there is a lot of outstanding work!  What this tells me is that you are not able to manage your workload on your own and you are requiring me and your parents to step in a make sure it gets done.  I will be contacting parents today.  First by email.  If I have not heard back from parents by the beginning of next week I will phone.

*Important*I want to you to remember, if I have not received work from you, I am unable to assess your work and you won't have met the learning outcomes for this course.

2. REFUGEE PROJECTS are due today!  Please be sure to hand them in.

3. The New Novel:  Will be handed out today at 12ish.  Your job is to read it and be ready for next week.  By next Friday, May 31 please be at least halfway and ready to talk with your classmates about what you have read so far.