Mr. Pressey

Hi Room 8, It was really great talking to some of you yesterday. Today I am planning on calling the rest of you and letting you know about Razkids and Google Classrooms. I have put one small reading activity on google classrooms. We are meant to be doing at least one hour a day of school work. Tuesday's Schedule 20 min of Prodigy 20 min of Raz Kids For Writing please send me an email through gmail telling me how you are doing. What you have been doing and any questions that you may have. Here are the questions that I will be asking you again. Have a great day and I hope that I see you all on Google Classroom. is anything that we can help you or your family with? can we help you get in contact with any community supports? what kind of computer access do you have? do you need paper learning packages? do you know your student email and log in information? do you need your passwords reset? do you need help getting onto D2L/ Google Classroom? is your gu...

Hi everyone, I hope that everybody had a wonderful break. I know that it was not as social as we would have wanted and the weather has not quite met my expectations of spring yet. But we are back! Over the next couple of days I will be contacting each of you to find out how your break has been and how your family is handling the new situation. I will also be asking you other questions: is anything that we can help you or your family with? can we help you get in contact with any community supports? what kind of computer access do you have? do you need paper learning packages? do you know your student email and log in information? do you need your passwords reset? do you need help getting onto D2L/ Google Classroom? is your guardian receiving emails? Once we have all of this information we will be in a much better position to help you learn from home. Thanks to the people who were checking the blog over the break.  For today I will be adding things to the...

Hello Room 8, We had our first person complete the daily brain wake up and they got everything right, even the riddle. And a few students have event done the challenge on Prodigy. Remember to read and to do all of the things that a good reader does like connect, code break, analyze, ask questions and summarize. Here is a video from the teachers at O.S.G.  https://youtu.be/mmz3zLh8X8Y Finally, here is todays quiz of the day. This will be the last quiz until after the spring break but stay tuned for more blog posts.

Hello Room 8, Hi everyone. I hope that everyone is enjoying things as much as you can. Remember to read and discuss some books, play some games that are not video games :) and get some exercise. But remember that it is Spring Break as of now so have fun, play outside :) I have updated prodigy and sent you all a new assignment.  You can comment and add your answers to the daily quiz in the comment section. Teach your parents how to play Array Conquer. Remember all you need are two dice.

Hello, I hope that everyone is doing well and taking care of themselves. Here are some activity suggestions that the CBE sent out https://cbe.ab.ca/programs/curriculum/learning-at-home/Pages/k-6.aspx I will try to send out more information and activity ideas each day. Here is a daily quiz You can post responses and comments to share your answers if you would like

March 13 In Math this week we continued our focus on learning our multiplication facts by focusing on our 4 times tables and using the strategy of doubling our doubles. We practiced our facts by using think boards, playing array conquer and multiplication fill-in. Mr. Traynor also began teaching us about asking data collection questions that are clear and specific, collecting information using tallies and displaying the information on a pictograph. In Science, we started researching about wolves using our note taking skills. We are working in small groups and using information websites to locate information about wolves. This week we focused as a whole class about wolf habitats and some of the challenges and adaptations of wolves. In gymnastic we are learning about gymnastics. We have focused so far on safe movements and balance. In Art on Friday we used our drawing skills to draw a realistic picture of a wolf. It was not easy and we had to develop our perseverance skills to ...