Class favourite holidays

Posted November 7, 2023

Chinese New Year – Feb 10, 2024 Holi – March Eid (Mar-Apr) Easter – March 31, 2024 Ramadan – Mar-Apr Onam – August Rosh Hashanah – Sept Durga Puja – Oct Halloween – Oct Diwali November Hanukka – Dec Christmas – December

Vista Hills Book Fair 2023

Posted November 7, 2023

Book Fair Photos The Scholastic Book Fair is ready to go in the library. The Fair officially opens tomorrow morning and will be open during class time and a few days after school until the following Wednesday. Book Fair Hours Wednesday, November 8th during class library time and OPEN UNTIL 4:30pm Thursday, November 9th during class library time […]

Long Weekend!

Posted October 5, 2023

Today was a fun day! We got our place value math tests back and our math minute sheet (just our first attempt, we will get better and the questions will get harder). There is a math assignment about how to spend $10,000 (grade 4) or $100,000 (grade 5) posted on our new math classroom. You […]

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 – Day 5

Posted October 3, 2023

Morning Gym (American football) and health (food and nutrition) We learned about proteins, carbs and fats. We need to bring in a food label to class. Science We started our science projects. Grade 4s are doing a habitat: desert, forest, grassland, wetlands or ocean. Slides to include: overview, plants, animals, adaptations, map, fun facts and […]

Cycle Days Calendar

Posted September 27, 2023

If you want to know what day of the cycle it is, here is a link: WRDSB Cycle Days Calendar Link

Gr. 4/5 @ Vista Hills!

Posted August 25, 2023

I’m teaching 4/5 at Vista Hills this year after 7 years as an Enrichment Itinerant Resource Teacher! Hoping to infuse my classroom with a lot of these open-ended, critical thinking challenges and real-life connections. My classroom will encourage curiousity, respect & manners, as well as a “team” mentality.

Junior Scavenger Hunt: Exploring WRDSB Virtual Library

Posted November 24, 2017

Created by the Itinerant LD Team Click here to open the Virtual Library.  Split your screen so that you have this document and the Virtual Library open at the same time. Add the Virtual Library to your Bookmarks bar. Open Capstone.  Find a book on sound.   What causes invisible waves in the air? Open Britannica […]

Blooms Math Question Stems

Posted March 28, 2017

  Bloom’s Taxonomy Math Question Stems Creating a dialogue with the Math using Bloom’s higher level math questions! Bloom’s Taxonomy is a classification of learning objectives within education proposed in 1956 by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom who also edited the first volume of the standard text, Taxonomy of educational objectives: the […]

Ingenius: An innovator’s mindset in school

Posted March 26, 2017

I had the great privilege to attend an event at Nipissing University talking about innovation in Canadian schools, with guest speaker Tom Jenkins, Chairman of Open Text. Considering my career began at Open Text as a “Cyber Gopher” (true story), while I was at university, it seems like life has come full circle. Invented in […]

Enrichment Skills

Posted March 22, 2017

Cognitive Domain: Critical Thinking – formulating questions, answers, alternatives, arguments, conclusions, broadening perspectives Creative Thinking – fluency, flexibility, elaboration, originality and uniqueness Problem Solving – identify problems, determine issues, generate solutions, develop criteria for evaluation, evaluate alternative solutions, communicate results Inquiry Skills Research planning and processing information, analyzing findings, presentation and evaluation of findings and […]

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