Thank you for all of your warm wishes.  

It has been a great four months into the school year.  

I can't wait to see what the next six months bring! 

Have a WONDERFUL winter holiday!

 

We'll see everyone back on January 7th, 2013!

Cool art to try out at home with crayons .
Materials needed include crayons, canvas board and a hair dryer.  Enjoy    :o)

Vote for Pia Graham, former McMurrich student with a talent in visual arts and photography.

Math: 

- Bowling Project: Part 1b: create a graph for your team total scores, complete the 3 guiding questions  and justify which data calculation (mean, median, mode and/or range) best describes a set of data for Friday December 21st.

- use the sample co-constructed responses to the guiding questions  individual graph in google docs as a guide when responding to your team data.

Summary:  Review the different writing stages of the summary your group co-constructed within the wiki.  Students have started their independent summary task which is completed in-class.

Poetry: read and/or listen to the poem written by your assigned and one choice class author which is posted in voicethread and provide descriptive feedback (a star and a wish) 

Congratulations on winning the Golden Shoe Award this month for the most squats.

Social Studies:  Civilizations & Social Needs, sharing what you learned about those you interviewed (google docs)

Math: 

- Bowling Project: Part 1b: create a graph for your team total scores, complete the 3 guiding questions  and justify which data calculation (mean, median, mode and/or range) best describes a set of data for Friday December 21st.

- use the sample co-constructed responses to the guiding questions  individual graph in google docs as a guide when responding to your team data.

Check this out - crack the code in this Name Letters challenge

Summary:  Review the different writing stages of the summary your group co-constructed within the wiki.  Students have started their independent summary task which is completed in-class.

Poetry: read and/or listen to the poem written by your assigned class author which is posted in voicethread and provide descriptive feedback (a star and a wish) 

Swimming: please come prepared tomorrow for swimming in the afternoon

Social Studies:  Civilizations & Social Needs, sharing what you learned about those you interviewed (google docs)

Math: co-constructing a response to the guiding questions for your individual graph; finalize the example response within the google docs.  Use this as a guide when responding to your own analysis of the data.
- Bowling Project: complete the 3 guiding questions for your individual graph and justify which data calculation (mean, median, mode and/or range) best describes a set of data for Wednesday December 19th
- Math Talk Blog discussion focussing on computations & misconceptions (offer an original response and a choice of piggybacking off another idea or asking questions for clarification), we will be discussing the responses on Wednesday December 19th.

Summary:  Review the different writing stages of the summary your group co-constructed within the wiki.  Students will be writing their independent summary task later this week.


FYI: On December 19, 2012, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfieldwill launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to reach theInternational Space Station (ISS).

A few pics of this weeks students in action  :o)

    

Math:  
- Math Talk Blog discussion focussing on computations & misconceptions (offer an original response and a choice of piggybacking off another idea or asking questions for clarification), we will be discussing the responses on Wednesday December 19th.
- Bowling Project: complete the 3 guiding questions for your individual bowling scores, (BTW, there was a range of graphs shared today that were effectively organized).

Summary:  Use the descriptive feedback provided during focussed group sessions with myself or Ms. Rambaran, please begin to work on your final draft of the summary paragraph.  Click on the link below for your group summary task:

• Writing Group One
• Writing Group Two

What a great week we have had.  I can't wait to see what next week brings  :o)

Congratulations McMurrich! We are so proud of you!

We Create Change was a great success with your participation.

We all worked as classes to bring in pennies and then all the pennies were brought together as a school community to donate to Free the Children.  One bag of pennies will give one person in Haiti water for life and help a girl go to school. Our rain drop board was a way for classes to encourage and to show our school’s progress that we as a school are creating change.  A representative from Free the Children has picked up our school penny bags and they would like to congratulate the school on collecting 50 bags. That’s 50 people in Haiti getting clean water, FOR LIFE.  Way to go McMurrich Hip Hip Horary.  Remember together McMurrich, WE CAN and WILL CREATE CHANGE.