Thank you Mr. Smith!

Hello students and families of room 214!

Most of you already know me as Ms. Brady who taught you health and physical education last year. I left to have my son Grayson and now have the pleasure to teach this wonderful class for the remaining part of the school year.
From what I have heard and seen, Mr. Smith did a fantastic job being your teacher in my absence. I know he will be greatly missed by both staff and students and wish him all the best.
Going forward, I will be blogging on this site so please continue to login to see what we are up to. Please feel free to email me directly at Erin.Brady@tdsb.on.ca with any questions or concerns.

I hope everyone had a wonderful March break and looking forward to welcoming spring!

Ms. Brady

What is Inquiry?

Students in Room 214 have spent some time this year learning the value of asking questions. Inquiry is a model of learning that encourages natural questioning. When we ask questions about things that interest us, we are more engaged in our learning and in finding out the answers.

We completed a Mind Map that helps to understand what inquiry is all about. Here is a picture of what the students came up with.

For more information on the inquiry process, please click on this link

Arts Express Dance Program

For the last few years, students at Twentieth have had the opportunity to learn dance through a fantastic sponsored program that brings dance instructors into our school once a week for one month to teach them different dance forms. It has been a highlight of the week for many students in 214.

Here is a video of students from 214 (and some other students) getting down to some good old fashioned soul music. 

Don't you love them now that they can dance?

February Newsletter

Our Community Market

For the last two weeks, students in 214 have been hard at work planning, designing, engineering (and sometimes redesigning) storefronts for our upcoming Community Market. In pairs, students will open a shop, sell products, give the right change, and go shopping!

Students were faced with the challenge to create an inviting storefront that encouraged them to think about branding and advertising, all while learning about how to use coin amounts up to $2.

Over the course of this integrated unit, students have become familiar with basic media literacy concepts, as well as regularly exploring the names and values of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, loonies, and toonies. We have spent time adding, subtracting, and comparing these values as well as combining coins to make larger amounts.

Please encourage your child to continue practicing with coin values at home. Here are some ways you can encourage your child to use coins and have fun with it:

• Ask your child to help you make the right change when shopping
• Perform pretend 'transactions' at home for things in the cupboard
• Add up the cost of certain groceries on the receipt (like all the fruit or all the veggies)
• Think of all the combinations of coins that could be used to make your age (eg. if you are 42 years old, how many different combinations of coins could be used to make 42 cents?)

Our Community Market will be taking place this Wednesday afternoon and students from other classrooms will be visiting to go shopping!