Wednesday November 30, 2016

Good evening ladies & gentlemen,

Just a reminder that winter electives forms have been sent home.  Please make sure that all forms and payment are returned at your earliest convenience if your child will participate.  Thank you kindly.  Please see the note below for additional information....

Dear Parents/Guardians,

                                                            

As part of our Winter Electives program, our grade 4 to 8 students will have the opportunity to participate in downhill skiing, snowboarding, or snow tubing at Snow Valley Ski Resort this winter.

Permission forms have been sent home with your children.  Please return them to the school before December 9, 2016.

We will need several parent volunteers to help with supervision at Snow Valley.  If you are able to assist, please email Mr. Macris at alex.macris@yrdsb.ca.  Bus transportation, lift tickets, and rental equipment will be provided to volunteers free of charge.  

Volunteers will be working with groups of students.  As such, volunteers must have a Vulnerable Sector Check completed through the York Region Police well in advance of the trip.  A Vulnerable Sector Check form can be picked up from our school’s office.  Furthermore, parents who volunteer to supervise skiing or snowboarding must know how to ski or snowboard.  Parents who volunteer to supervise tubing are not required to tube.

Thank you.

The Rick Hansen Public School Staff

Please remember that you can get updates on what we have accomplished throughout the week on our Twitter account.  The link is www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1  (you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser in order to access the page).




Tonight's homework is as follows:




Progress reports went home this evening.  We ask that all envelopes please be signed and returned, as we seek to save on paper throughout the year.  Your child's 1st & 2nd term report cards will be sent home in the same envelop.  Thank you kindly.


Assessment Folders - I am still waiting on some of these.  Please make sure that they are signed and returned. (Due)

Field Trip - A permission form has been sent home for the Ross Petty field trip next week.  Permission forms and $5 for the bus are due Friday please.  (Due Friday)

Art - Reflection due Monday

Science - Have option for your project by tomorrow.  All the info is on Google Classroom (due tomorrow)

*Mustache Day tomorrow...the suggestion of using eyeliner to create a mustache was given in class :)

*Elective forms have been sent home.  We are excited to be able to offer this opportunity again this year.  Please have forms back at your earliest convenience.  Thank you!

Have a great evening!

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1

Tuesday November 29, 2016

Good evening ladies & gentlemen,

Just a reminder that winter electives forms have been sent home.  Please make sure that all forms and payment are returned at your earliest convenience if your child will participate.  Thank you kindly.  Please see the note below for additional information....

Dear Parents/Guardians,

                                                           

As part of our Winter Electives program, our grade 4 to 8 students will have the opportunity to participate in downhill skiing, snowboarding, or snow tubing at Snow Valley Ski Resort this winter.

Permission forms have been sent home with your children.  Please return them to the school before December 9, 2016.

We will need several parent volunteers to help with supervision at Snow Valley.  If you are able to assist, please email Mr. Macris at alex.macris@yrdsb.ca.  Bus transportation, lift tickets, and rental equipment will be provided to volunteers free of charge.  

Volunteers will be working with groups of students.  As such, volunteers must have a Vulnerable Sector Check completed through the York Region Police well in advance of the trip.  A Vulnerable Sector Check form can be picked up from our school’s office.  Furthermore, parents who volunteer to supervise skiing or snowboarding must know how to ski or snowboard.  Parents who volunteer to supervise tubing are not required to tube.

Thank you.

The Rick Hansen Public School Staff

Please remember that you can get updates on what we have accomplished throughout the week on our Twitter account.  The link is www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1  (you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser in order to access the page).




Tonight's homework is as follows:




Progress reports went home this evening.  We ask that all envelopes please be signed and returned, as we seek to save on paper throughout the year.  Your child's 1st & 2nd term report cards will be sent home in the same envelop.  Thank you kindly.

Assessment Folders - I am still waiting on some of these.  Please make sure that they are signed and returned. (Due)

Math - Please complete your Google Drive method of tracking for the DPA assignment.  You just need to complete what you started today in class. (Due tomorrow).

Art - Reflection due Monday

Science - Have option for your project by Thursday.  All the info is on Google Classroom (due Thursday)

*Mustache Day tomorrow...the suggestion of using eyeliner to create a mustache was given in class :)

*Elective forms have been sent home.  We are excited to be able to offer this opportunity again this year.  Please have forms back at your earliest convenience.  Thank you!

Have a great evening!

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1

Friday November 18, 2016

Good evening ladies & gentlemen,

Just a reminder that winter electives forms have been sent home.  Please make sure that all forms and payment are returned at your earliest convenience if your child will participate.  Thank you kindly.  

Please remember that you can get updates on what we have accomplished throughout the week on our Twitter account.  The link is www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1  (you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser in order to access the page).




Tonight's homework is as follows:

History - Please complete the research you started today.  Your groups would have split up the topics below.  For each topic, please make sure that you answer: 1) Who is this person(s)?  2) How are they an important part of Canadian history/heritage? (due Thursday)

1. Jacques Cartier
2. Samuel de Champlain
3. Missionaries
4. Fur Traders
5. Metis
6. Seigneurs & Habitants
7. Tradesmen & merchants & slaves

Art - Handout due Monday

Dance - Assignment due Thursday



*Elective forms have been sent home.  We are excited to be able to offer this opportunity again this year.  Please have forms back at your earliest convenience.  Thank you!

Have a great evening!

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1

Thursday November 17, 2016

Good evening ladies & gentlemen,

Just a reminder that winter electives forms have been sent home.  Please make sure that all forms and payment are returned at your earliest convenience if your child will participate.  Thank you kindly.  

Please remember that you can get updates on what we have accomplished throughout the week on our Twitter account.  The link is www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1  (you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser in order to access the page).




Tonight's homework is as follows:

History - Please complete the research you started today.  Your groups would have split up the topics below.  For each topic, please make sure that you answer: 1) Who is this person(s)?  2) How are they an important part of Canadian history/heritage? (due Thursday Nov. 24)

1. Jacques Cartier
2. Samuel de Champlain
3. Missionaries
4. Fur Traders
5. Metis
6. Seigneurs & Habitants
7. Tradesmen & merchants & slaves

Dance - Assignment due tomorrow

French - 5 sheets due tomorrow



*Elective forms have been sent home.  We are excited to be able to offer this opportunity again this year.  Please have forms back at your earliest convenience.  Thank you!

Have a great evening!

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1

Tuesday November 15, 2016

Good evening ladies & gentlemen,


Please remember that you can get updates on what we have accomplished throughout the week on our Twitter account.  The link is www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1  (you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser in order to access the page).




Tonight's homework is as follows:

History - Please make sure you have your assignment done for Thursday.  As a reminder, our question is to use the textbook and our notes about the Acadians & The Seven Years War, to explain what happened between the British & French.  You should also be able to explain how this explains why we have British ties today, even though the French were the first European country to settle in Canada.  You can use whatever method you want to share your learning.  (Due Thursday).

Music - Test tomorrow

French - 5 sheets due Friday

*I am still waiting on Haunted House assignments as well as Health assignments.  It is extremely important that you get these to me tomorrow.  They are late!


*Elective forms have been sent home.  We are excited to be able to offer this opportunity again this year.  Please have forms back at your earliest convenience.  Thank you!

Have a great evening!

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1

Monday November 14, 2016

Good evening ladies & gentlemen,


Please remember that you can get updates on what we have accomplished throughout the week on our Twitter account.  The link is www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1  (you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser in order to access the page).




Tonight's homework is as follows:



French - book by Tuesday

*I am still waiting on Haunted House assignments as well as Health assignments.  It is extremely important that you get these to me tomorrow.  They are late!


*Elective forms have been sent home.  We are excited to be able to offer this opportunity again this year.  Please have forms back at your earliest convenience.  Thank you!

Have a great evening!

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1

Friday November 11, 2016

Good evening ladies & gentlemen,


Please remember that you can get updates on what we have accomplished throughout the week on our Twitter account.  The link is www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1  (you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser in order to access the page).




Tonight's homework is as follows:

*Please make sure you bring in your reading assignments to hand in if you have not done so already.


Health - Your Media Texts, as well as your question page (Making Rick Hansen PS Healthier) is due tomorrow.  Some students have not yet handed this in.  These assignments are late, and must be handed in ASAP.  Thank you.


Math - Haunted House Assignment is due Monday.  Please make sure that you use the rubric and assignment guidelines to make sure you have covered everything.  (due Monday)

*Elective forms have been sent home.  We are excited to be able to offer this opportunity again this year.  Please have forms back at your earliest convenience.  Thank you!

Have a great evening!

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1

Wednesday November 9, 2016

Good evening ladies & gentlemen,


Please remember that you can get updates on what we have accomplished throughout the week on our Twitter account.  The link is www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1  (you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser in order to access the page).




Tonight's homework is as follows:

*Please make sure you bring in your reading assignments to hand in if you have not done so already.

*There is still room for the Movie night tomorrow night.  Please contact the office if you would like to go, even if you have not RSVP'd.

Health - Your Media Texts, as well as your question page (Making Rick Hansen PS Healthier) is due tomorrow.

French - Little books due Friday

Math - Please use the Check-in page, as well as the review videos on Twitter, to study for your math quiz.  The quiz will be on Friday.

Art - Good copy due tomorrow

*Elective forms have been sent home.  We are excited to be able to offer this opportunity again this year.  Please have forms back at your earliest convenience.  Thank you!

Have a great evening!

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1

Tuesday November 8, 2016

Good evening ladies & gentlemen,


Please remember that you can get updates on what we have accomplished throughout the week on our Twitter account.  The link is www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1  (you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser in order to access the page).




Tonight's homework is as follows:

*Please make sure you bring in your reading assignments to hand in if you have not done so already.

Health - Your Media Texts, as well as your question page (Making Rick Hansen PS Healthier) is due Thursday.

Literacy - Please complete your postcards for soldiers/veterans (due tomorrow)

French - Little books due Friday

Math - Please use the Check-in page, as well as the review videos on Twitter, to study for your math quiz.  The quiz will be on Friday.

Art - Good copy due Thursday

Have a great evening!

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1

Monday November 7, 2016

Good evening ladies & gentlemen,


Please remember that you can get updates on what we have accomplished throughout the week on our Twitter account.  The link is www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1  (you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser in order to access the page).




Tonight's homework is as follows:

*Please make sure you bring in your reading assignments to hand in if you have not done so already.

Health - Your Media Texts, as well as your question page (Making Rick Hansen PS Healthier) is due Thursday.

Math - Please use the Check-in page, as well as the review videos on Twitter, to study for your math quiz.  The quiz will be on Friday.

Art - Good copy due Thursday

Have a great evening!

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1

Thursday November 3, 2016

Good evening ladies & gentlemen,


Please remember that you can get updates on what we have accomplished throughout the week on our Twitter account.  The link is www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1  (you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser in order to access the page).




Tonight's homework is as follows:



History - Today in class we went over the important details around the big question that we have been investigating in class.  For homework, I would like you to all make sure that you have written down your notes from the topics of the Acadians, Expulsions of the Acadians, and the 7 Years War.  These are in the online textbook, and are the topics that we discussed in class.  Please use the Table of Contents to find these pages if you forget.  Please complete this tonight so that it is fresh in your mind. (Due tomorrow)

Math - We will be having a quiz next week on the information in today's check in.  Please begin reviewing this material, and you can use the online videos to help you.  The videos are on the Twitter account.

Math - Please work on the question posted on Twitter from today's math class.  It is the question about creating a trapezoid-shaped garden.  Please attempt this question and begin developing ideas for what you think the answer may be.  It is a tricky one, so don't worry if you don't complete it.  Please don't spend more than 25 minutes on this question.  Bring to class tomorrow the work that you did complete.  (Due tomorrow)

Art - Good copy due November 10


*Move night RSVP's are due tomorrow.

Have a great evening!

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1

Wednesday November 2, 2016

Good evening ladies & gentlemen,


Please remember that you can get updates on what we have accomplished throughout the week on our Twitter account.  The link is www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1  (you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser in order to access the page).




Tonight's homework is as follows:


Literacy - Complete both reading pages.  This is a big assignment! (due tomorrow)

History - Your assignment is to become an expert on the info on four of the pages from the list we were researching in class.  By "expert", I mean that you need to have notes which explain very clearly how the topics on those page help answer our "big question" from class (The French were the first to settle in Canada.  How did we go from having land ruled by France to having British ties?)  (Due tomorrow).


Art - Good copy due November 10

*We are holding our annual "We Scare Hunger Food Drive".  Any non-perishable donations for the local food bank are greatly appreciated.  There is a competition to see which class in our school brings in the most items :)

*The Eco-Team will be selling school water bottles in the front foyer at morning recesses next week.  The cost is $10.  Students are allowed to have water bottles on their desks during class time so that they can remain hydrated and alert.

Have a great evening!

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1

Tuesday November 1, 2016

Good evening ladies & gentlemen,

Any students who are available on Wednesday morning (tomorrow) are asked to please come to the snack table at around 8:45am for our walk to school festivities.  We need help handing out apples and helping younger students filling out their ballots.  Thank you in advance!!

Please remember that you can get updates on what we have accomplished throughout the week on our Twitter account.  The link is www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1  (you may need to copy and paste the link into your web browser in order to access the page).




Tonight's homework is as follows:

*Walking Wednesday tomorrow....Please come help at the table!

Math - Please find two ways to calculate the area of a trapezoid.  You can use the picture on Twitter for the dimensions if you don't have them.

Literacy - Complete both reading pages.  This is a big assignment! (due Thursday)

History - Your assignment is to become an expert on the info on four of the pages from the list we were researching in class.  By "expert", I mean that you need to have notes which explain very clearly how the topics on those page help answer our "big question" from class (The French were the first to settle in Canada.  How did we go from having land ruled by France to having British ties?)  (Due Thursday).


Art - Good copy due November 10

French - Rubrics signed & rough copy and self-editing (Due Monday)

*We are holding our annual "We Scare Hunger Food Drive".  Any non-perishable donations for the local food bank are greatly appreciated.  There is a competition to see which class in our school brings in the most items :)

*The Eco-Team will be selling school water bottles in the front foyer at morning recesses next week.  The cost is $10.  Students are allowed to have water bottles on their desks during class time so that they can remain hydrated and alert.

Have a great evening!

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

www.twitter.com/jonathanwcarr1