Wednesday October 30, 2013

Good evening everyone,

Please remember to that tomorrow is our last day for the food drive, and to bring your Halloween costumes tomorrow!  Please also remember that if you bring snacks they must be store bought and labelled "nut free".  It should be a fun day :)


Here is tonight's homework:


Math - p. 52 & 53 only - textbook (due tomorrow)

Social Studies - Venn Diagram completed (due)

Art - Skyscraper assignment (due Wednesday)

Science - Important info notes (due Friday)

Health - Complete chart and "Reflect on Decision" question (due Wednesday)


Picture order forms due November 4

"We Scare Hunger" food drive



Have a great night!

Mr. Carr

Monday October 28, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

I hope you all have a great night.  Please remember to have all of your Science Centre forms in for tomorrow.  Thank you!


Math - Workbook page 18 (due tomorrow)

Social Studies - Venn Diagram completed (due Wednesday)

Literacy - Share Grammar Quiz on Google drive if have not already

Picture order forms due November 4

"We Scare Hunger" food drive


Have a great night!

Mr. Carr

Friday October 25, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

I hope you all have a great weekend!  Please remember that your Science Centre Permission forms are due on Monday.

Please find your homework below:

Friday Folders (due Monday)

Literacy - If you are not done your rough drafts for your Descriptive Text Articles, they need to be done for Monday.

Gym - Dance page (due Monday)

Science Centre Form - Due Monday

Picture order forms (due November 4)

We Scare Hunger Food Drive....Wouldn't it be great if our class won the competition!


Have a great weekend!

Mr. Carr

Thursday October 24, 2013

Good evening everyone,

The only homework you have tonight is to complete your rough drafts for your Descriptive Text Articles.  If there is any reason why you cannot complete this work please make sure that you have your parents write a note for you explaining.  Thank you everyone!  Have a great night!

Mr. Carr

Wednesday October 23, 2013

Good evening everyone,

I just wanted to let you know that we will be having a Halloween party with Mr. Macris' class.  It will be a costume party, and we will be doing an activity with our costumes.  We will talk more about it in class.

Please find your homework below:


Literacy - Rough draft of Descriptive Text Article is due Friday....DON'T LEAVE IT UNTIL THURSDAY NIGHT!  You should be close to completed by Thursday when we work on your articles in class.

Math - p.47 #4-10 in workbook (due tomorrow)

Social Studies - Government Questions will be collected tomorrow.  Feel free to work on them tonight if you wish.  I want to get an idea of what you know.

Science Centre Form - Due Monday

We Scare Hunger Food Drive....Wouldn't it be great if our class won the competition!


Have a great evening.

Mr. Carr

Tuesday October 22, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

It was great seeing everyone's dance moves today during "Fit to Dance"!  You all have some serious skills!

Please see your homework below:

Literacy - Rough draft of Descriptive Text Article is due Friday....DON'T LEAVE IT UNTIL THURSDAY NIGHT!  You should be close to completed by Thursday when we work on your articles in class.

Science Centre Form - Due Monday

We Scare Hunger Food Drive....Wouldn't it be great if our class won the competition!


Have a great evening.

Mr. Carr

Monday October 21, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

I wanted to let everyone know that I was planning on putting pictures on the blog of our government posters.  Unfortunately the pictures would not load properly onto the blog, and so we will have to complete this activity in class.  It will not be homework. 

Please find your homework below:

Math - p.14 (WB)

Science - Digging Deeper Sheet (Question #1 only) - due tomorrow

Literacy - Rough draft of Descriptive Text Article is due Friday

Science Centre Form - Due Monday

We Scare Hunger Food Drive




Have a great night!

Friday October 18, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

Today was a great day.  I am very proud of the effort that everyone has been showing when it comes to our class discussions.  Let's keep learning from each other!

Here is your homework for the weekend:

Math - Check your answers for p. 43 #4-9 in the textbook.  The lesson we had today in class should help you improve your answers. (Due Monday)

Science - Digging Deeper Sheet, Question #1 ONLY (due Tuesday)

Literacy - Complete first sub-section of D.T. article (due Monday).

We Scare Hunger Food Drive.



Have a great weekend everyone!

Mr. Carr

Wednesday October 16, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

Please find below the homework for today and for tomorrow.  I will not be with you tomorrow, but I hope you have a tremendous day.  Last time you had a substitute teacher I got a note about what a great class you were, and I look forward to reading another one tomorrow!  Thanks for being terrific students!

Please find your homework below:

Literacy - Make sure your graphic organizer is complete!  Also make sure that you have written at least 5 sentences for your first section of your Descriptive Text Article.  (due tomorrow).  If you need help getting on Google Drive, make sure you look for the blog post which tells you how.

Math - Please complete p.41 #1-4 in your textbook (due tomorrow).  After tomorrow's lesson, please complete the Reflecting questions on the page that you worked on in class today (due Friday)

Music - Songs here for Friday


We Scare Hunger Food Drive

Have a great night and a great day tomorrow!

Mr. Carr

Tuesday October 15, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

Please find tonight's homework below.  Great work today building off of each others' ideas during our class discussions.  I'm looking forward to more great work tomorrow.  I'm very proud of all of you!

Please find your homework below:

Literacy - Make sure your graphic organizer is complete!  Also make sure that you have written at least 5 sentences for your first section of your Descriptive Text Article.  (due tomorrow).  If you need help getting on Google Drive, make sure you look for the blog post which tells you how.

Music - Songs here for Friday

Health - Complete packet of questions.  Please do not do # 5 or 6)

We Scare Hunger Food Drive

Have a great night!

Mr. Carr

Thursday October 10, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

There was some news coverage of the walk to school event yesterday.  The links below are some of the newscasts.  You have to skip through some of it to get to the Rick Hansen coverage.  I think I saw some of you.  You made the news!

 http://barrie.ctvnews.ca/video?binId=1.1274844

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1020485#1020485

http://www.fairchildtv.com/news.php?n=14b7367a28377d4d513a4d3349861d2f



Your homework for this evening is below:

Math - p.39 & 40 in textbook, please complete questions 3 & 4 only.  (Due Tuesday)

Literacy - Graphic Organizer was due today.  Please make sure that this is done as we will be using them to work on our articles next week. 

Health - Complete all of packet, except for questions 5 & 6.  (Due Wednesday)

Friday Folders are due back.  Please make sure that you show your parents your work, have them sign the sheet in the Friday Folder, and then you must put your work in the appropriate duotang. 

For all those who are able, any canned food donations for our food drive are greatly appreciated!

Information forms are due back as soon as possible.  Please have your parents check that all your information is correct.


Have a tremendous long weekend.  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  We certainly all have a lot to be thankful for.  I am thankful that each and every one of you are in my class!

Mr. Carr

Wednesday October 9, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

It was great to see everyone walking to school this morning.  Who knows, maybe you'll make the news tonight!


Your homework for this evening is below:

Literacy - Graphic Organizer (due tomorrow)

Health - Complete all of packet, except for questions 5 & 6.  (Due Wednesday)

Friday Folders are due back.  Please make sure that you show your parents your work, have them sign the sheet in the Friday Folder, and then you must put your work in the appropriate duotang.


Information forms are due back as soon as possible.  Please have your parents check that all your information is correct.


I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow!

Mr. Carr

Tuesday October 8, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

I hope you had a great day with your substitute teacher today.  Please remember that tomorrow is our first Walking Wednesday, and we are hoping that EVERYONE walks!  We are planning to have people from the newspapers at the school, so it would be a good idea to get to school early and to wear your "Spirit Wear".

Your homework for this evening is below:

Literacy - Graphic Organizer (due Thursday)

Math - page 11 & 12 in workbook.  If you did not get a chance to work on page 12 today in class, then only do page 11.  (due tomorrow)

Health - Complete the Yogurt labels page.  This is the last page in the packet that I gave you today.  Please do not do any other pages. (due tomorrow)

Friday Folders are due back.  Please make sure that you show your parents your work, have them sign the sheet in the Friday Folder, and then you must put your work in the appropriate duotang.


Information forms are due back as soon as possible.  Please have your parents check that all your information is correct.




Have a great night!

Mr. Carr

Monday October 7, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

I would encourage everyone to discuss with their parents the activity we did today regarding self-control.  It would be great if you told them about the bad habits that you committed to using self-control to help you break.

Your homework for this evening is below:

Literacy - Graphic Organizer (due Thursday)

Math - page 10 in workbook

Health - Complete the Yogurt labels page.  This is the last page in the packet that I gave you today.  Please do not do any other pages. (due Wednesday)

Friday Folders are due back.  Please make sure that you show your parents your work, have them sign the sheet in the Friday Folder, and then you must put your work in the appropriate duotang.


Information forms are due back as soon as possible.  Please have your parents check that all your information is correct.




Have a great night!

Mr. Carr

Friday October 4, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

I hope you all have a great weekend.


Your homework for this evening is below:

Literacy - Post 5-6 pages of research on Google Drive.  You can use google if you have already searched on Britanica.  Make sure you look at the previous blog post for instructions on Moodle and Google Drive if you need help.  (Due Monday)

Math - if you have not completed all of your retest, you will complete it on Monday.

Health - Complete the Yogurt labels page.  This is the last page in the packet that I gave you today.  Please do not do any other pages. (due Wednesday)

Friday Folders are due back on Monday.  Please make sure that you show your parents your work, have them sign the sheet in the Friday Folder, and then you must put your work in the appropriate duotang.


Information forms are due back as soon as possible.  Please have your parents check that all your information is correct.




Have a great night!

Mr. Carr

Moodle and Google Drive Instructions

For getting on the moodle please do the following.....

1.  Go to www.moodle2.yrdsb.ca
2.  type in your user name and password for the school computers.
3.  Go to effective online searches.
4.  If you need a password for one of the resources (i.e. Britanica) they are below the list of resources



For getting on Google Drive please do the following....

1.  Go to google.
2.  Click on "sign in" in the top right corner.
3.  Type in your username (the numbers) @gapps.yrdsb.ca  (ex.  1234334@gapps.yrdsb.ca).
4.  Do not enter a password.
5.  It will bring you to a new screen.  Enter your school account user name and password.
6.  This will bring you back to the google page, but you are now signed in. 
7.  On the google page, click on "Drive" on the top of the page.
8.  You are now in google drive. 

If you ever have questions you can email me at jonathan.carr@yrdsb.edu.on.ca.  I will get back to you as soon as I can, but please keep in mind, I may not receive it right away, so calling a friend on the phone to help you is also a good idea.

Thursday October 3, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

A reminder that tonight is Meet the Staff Evening.  I look forward to seeing many of you with your parents.  The evening runs from 6:30 - 8pm.

Your homework for this evening is below:

Math - p.9 in workbook (due tomorrow)

Math - Retest is tomorrow.  Study tonight. Come to school with any questions you may have.

Health - Complete the Yogurt labels page.  This is the last page in the packet that I gave you today.  Please do not do any other pages. (due Wednesday)



Information forms are due back as soon as possible.  Please have your parents check that all your information is correct.




Have a great night!

Mr. Carr

Wednesday October 2, 2013

Good evening everyone,

Please remember to check the blog post before this one titled "Educreations Test".  Please make sure that you follow all of the instruction in the blog.  This is part of your homework.  When you write your name, please only write your first name (for internet safety reasons).

Your homework for this evening is below:

Literacy - Read 30 minutes, complete your Reader's Notebook (due tomorrow)

Math - Retest is Friday.  Study tonight. Come to school with any questions you may have.

Health - Complete the Yogurt labels page.  This is the last page in the packet that I gave you today.  Please do not do any other pages.

Blog-Do the Educreations activity in the blog post that comes before this one.


Information forms are due back as soon as possible.  Please have your parents check that all your information is correct.

Bring money for the book fair if there is a book that you would like to purchase.


Have a great night!

Mr. Carr

Educreations Test

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/welcome-mr-carr-s-class/11326770/?ref=app

Hello ladies and gentlemen, 

Above is a link for educreations.  I would like you to please click on the link and see if you can view the presentation from home.  The reason for this is that if it works we may use this resource in the future for our classroom and for homework.

After trying to view it, please try and leave a comment in the comment section saying whether or not you were able to see it.  

Thank you!

Mr. Carr

Tuesday October 1, 2013

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

I am looking forward to seeing everyone come to school tomorrow ready to try their best and get the most out of every lesson and activity that we do.  Please remember the great discussion that we had today and come ready to put forth your best effort!


Your homework for this evening is below:

Literacy - Read 30 minutes, complete your Reader's Notebook (due tomorrow)

Math - Retest is Friday.  Study tonight.  Extra help is available tomorrow at morning recess.

Social Studies - Complete chart and questions (due Wednesday).  You will need to use Britanica.  Remember to go to www.moodle2.yrdsb.ca

Information forms are due back as soon as possible.  Please have your parents check that all your information is correct.

Bring money for the book fair if there is a book that you would like to purchase.


Have a great night!

Mr. Carr