Global News

Here, Mente and Noureen show us where Toronto is on a world map. 

The children of 207 also recognize all the continents and can locate Canada, U.S.A., China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Egypt since they are often in the news.

Probability

The children placed these items along a continuum of probability. 

The big rain drop represents that day's probability of precipitation, as found on the Weather Canada site.

Visiting Nature

Inspired by Robert Bateman, the class set off to discover the natural wonders of our own community.

People Drawing Animals

For 15,000 people have drawn animals for one reason or another. This video looks at a variety of ways animals have been presented by people and then it concentrates on the work of naturalist Robert Bateman who has inspired our class' new routine nature walk.

Our class will soon begin routine nature walks. Like Robert Bateman at the age of eight, the class will keep journals to record what they saw in words and pictures.

Vowels & Room 209

This morning the whole class joined Ms. MacFadyen's class. It was interesting to see how their days start. 

207 participated as students filled in the missing vowels in the morning message.

We then listened to the last of the Blue Spruce Award nominees and we discussed how to find non-fiction books about animals in the library.

DATA MANAGEMENT

Courtney and Mr. O'Neill designed the data chart showing the various ways animals move (e.g. run, slide, swim, etc) and the rest of the class searched National Geographic magazines for pictures of animals.

Next we all listed animals as to their methods of movement. We used both pictures and words and did our best to line up big pictures with the correct data column.

ALGEBRA

Students begin by writing what they know, then use various strategies to figure out what data is missing.

These students are playing 10-in-all while others played 50-in-all and used a hundreds chart to find the difference between what they know and what is missing (hiding in this case).