May Language Thinking

Posted May 3, 2024

  Imagine you live in a world with only 20 words. You can use these 20 words as much as you want, but you cannot use any other words at all. In the comments, list the 20 words you’d pick.  Explain why you’d choose those words.    

April Language Thinking – Grade 7/8

Posted April 1, 2024

You have been chosen to make the final decision about where your end-of-the-year class trip will be. What destination would you choose for your class? Write a persuasive paragraph convincing your classmates that your choice is best.    

March Language Thinking: Write a Pi-em in Pi-lish

Posted March 7, 2024

This is the opening  of  ‘Poe, E., Near A Raven‘—a retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s 1845 poem The Raven—by the American mathematician Mike Keith. The length of the all words, in all eighteen verses, of Keith’s version of the poem correspond to the first 720 digits of pi! Here is another example of a Pi-em: […]

Book Club Question Randomizer

Posted February 22, 2024

What book are you reading right now? CLICK HERE to open the Randomizer. Then, click the button with the circular arrow to spin the Randomizer. When it stops, answer that question for your book.  

February Language Thinking – Gr. 3/4 & 5/6

Posted February 1, 2024

January Language Thinking – Story Dice

Posted January 1, 2024

Click this link to throw the dice and tell your story using the illustrations on the faces of the dice. Or try this version with 9 cubes.  You can choose your 5 favourite images or use them all!

December Future Thinking – What is the question?!

Posted December 12, 2023

What’s the Question? It is the year 2035 and you are being interviewed. Below are your answers to questions. Think of as many different questions/situations  for each answer.   “It was difficult, but it was worth the trouble.”   “I was really surprised when they announced my name”   ‘‘I’m not sure I would do […]

December Analogy Thinking – Emotions!

Posted December 12, 2023

Finish the sentence An analogy is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar. Metaphors and similes are tools used to draw an analogy. NOTE: The more […]

December Language Thinking – Gr. 5/6 & 7/8

Posted December 1, 2023

December Language Thinking – Gr. 3/4 & 5/6

Posted December 1, 2023

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