Principal’s Blog

Increase the Kindness! (Bullying Awarenenss Week!)

Posted November 19, 2021

Hi Families:

Here are some activities that we will be doing as a school to help us learn about Bullying and creating a KIND school and community. You can support by having conversations with your child(ren) about the themes below!

Monday-22
Tuesday-23
Wednesday-24
Thursday-25

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We’re All in This Together!

Posted March 31, 2020

We are all in this together.

(Disclaimer – the people in the video are way too close together)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=gbrbUfYSt0E

(Aside) – My daughters can quote the lines in this movie. My brother, sister and I can quote the original Ghostbusters; I guess every generation has their movie. (CONTEXT)

I …

March 24, Division Strategies

Posted March 24, 2020

Division Strategies

Interesting that this week’s blog is on the last part of the UGDSB Math document – division. AS we have ended our March Break, we find ourselves “divided” into our separate spaces. I have even divided my day into scheduled parts as I try to structure my time and keep to …

Math at Home Part 2 – Subtraction

Posted March 10, 2020

This week, I am posting the subtraction strategies from the UGDSB Home Tip Sheet.

An important thing to remember is to point out relationships between concepts or operations. Many of the subtraction strategies can be shown as “the opposite” or “undoing” the adding strategies.

Subtraction For example – …

Math Strategies at Home Part 1

Posted March 3, 2020

One of the common things we hear at school is that “My child gets frustrated with me when I try to teach math or help with homework because their teacher does not teach it that way!”

This can definitely lead to homework angst on both the part of the parent and …

Surface, Deep and Transfer Learning in Math

Posted February 25, 2020

As a follow up to last week’s blog, I thought I would write a little about the concepts of surface, deep, and transfer learning in mathematics and what they look like at school in our classrooms. Surface learning is when students learn new ideas and are …