Monday June 1, 2020

Good morning everyone,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.


Today's Assignments

Literacy
- Please hand in your texts if you have not already done so.  If you need an extension, that is fine, but please let me know :)

Health
- Please complete the mental health vs. mental illness task on the Literacy Google Classroom page.
- This should take approximately 20 mintues.

Science
- Please complete your task from Ms. Glanfield for the week.
- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

Geography
- Please complete steps 1 & 2 for "Chapter #10 - Types of Natural Resources"
- This should take approximately 35 minutes.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Friday May 29, 2020

Good morning everyone,

I hope you have a great Friday, and a wonderful weekend.

Today's Assignments

Free Choice
- Please take an hour and 30 minutes to work on anything that you feel is necessary.  This can be used for your Literacy text, or Science, Geography or any other subject you could use some time to "catch up".

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Thursday May 28, 2020

Good morning everyone,

It was great getting to see so many of you yesterday.  I really enjoyed the scavenger hunt, as did my 3 kids - Aivry, Josiah & Tobias.  Hope we can do something like that again :)

Math

- Please complete "Finding Unit Rates" lesson.

- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

Literacy

- Please work on the text you are creating. This is the last day to work on it, but it will not be due until Monday.

If you need an extension, that is no problem, just let me know :)

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Google Meet

Please click on this link if you would like to join our scavenger hunt :)

Wednesday May 27, 2020

Good morning everyone,

A reminder that at 11am we will have a "scavenger hunt" on Google Meet.  Please check back here on the blog at around 10:50am for the link.



Today's Assignments

Math
- Please complete "Converting Units of Area - Check-in".
- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

Literacy
- Please work on your text for approximately 45 minutes.
- Tomorrow is your last day to work on this, however, if you need more time, that will be fine.
- I have set the due date to Monday, but just let me know if you need more time than that and we can make arrangements :)

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Tuesday May 26, 2020

Good morning everyone,

Hope you are all doing well.  I'm loving this hot weather...hoping you are too :)

Google Meet Meeting
Our next Google Meet will be tomorrow at 11am.  We will be getting together to have a scavenger hunt :)  It will be nice to joke around and have some fun.  Please see the blog tomorrow for details.

Today's Assignments

Math
- Please complete "Units of Area" lesson.
- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

Literacy
- Today is day 5 of 7 for your type of texts assignment.
- Please work on it for approximately 45 minutes.

Phys Ed
- Please complete "Week 8 Review" task.
- Please submit when complete.
- You do NOT need to do the part where you post pictures (unless you want to). All you need to submit are the 2 reflection questions at the end....

1. Which task/activity is your favourite/most fun and why?
2. Which task/activity is your least favourite/least fun and why?

- This should take approximately 20 minutes.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Monday May 25, 2020

Hello everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Today's Assignments

Literacy
- Please make sure that I have access to the texts that you are creating so that I can provide you with feedback. Thanks so much.
- Sharing this with me should take about 5 minutes (unless you have already done so).

Drama
- Please complete "Drama Task #2" on the Literacy page
- This should only take approximately 10 minutes.

Geography
- Please complete the remaining questions for "Chapter #9 - Agriculture".
- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

Science
- Please complete your Science work for Ms. Glanfield.
- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Friday May 22, 2020

Good morning everyone,

I hope you have a wonderful day, and a wonderful weekend! :)

Today's Assignments

Math
- Please complete "Converting Units of Measure - Review".
- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

Literacy
- Please work on the texts that you are writing.
- Please work for 45 minutes.
- This is work period 4 of 7.

Phys Ed
- Please work on the Phys Ed task "Wellness Task" that was assigned April 27th.
- The task is due today (May 22nd)
- You can work on this for 20 minutes.
- My hope is that you have actually completed this, since 45 minutes was given last week to work on it.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Thursday May 21, 2020

Good morning everyone,

Have a wonderful day! :)

Today's Assignments

Math
- Please complete Percentages (part 2) lesson.
- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

Literacy
- Please work on the texts that you are writing.
- Please work for 45 minutes.
- This is work period 3 of 7.

Phys Ed
- Please work on the Phys Ed task "Wellness Task" that was assigned April 27th.
- The task is due tomorrow (May 22nd)
- You can work on this for 20 minutes.
- My hope is that you have actually completed this, since 45 minutes was given last week to work on it.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Wednesday May 20, 2020

Good morning everyone,

It was great getting to see so many of you yesterday!!


Health
- Today you will complete this task.  You will use the research you have compiled to complete the final task.
- Today we will complete our "Healthy Eating Assignment"
- Please make sure that you have read all the instructions on the assignment before you hand in.
- Assignment is found on the Literacy page.
- This is the only assignment you have today besides French and Music.  I want to give you time to complete the final task well.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Google Meet Info

Hi everyone,

I'm excited to see those who can attend!

If you could please follow these instructions it will help the meeting run smoothly.


1.  When you come into the meeting, please turn off your microphone to start.

2.  If you are comfortable, you can leave your camera on.  If you would prefer to have it off, that is also fine :)

3.  To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/frn-cbox-ygg



Notes from our meeting....

1. If you want to do a particular task in a group, please let me know.  Please check with me prior to working as a group so that I can help you know how this might best work.

2.  Feel free to post questions in the public comments section so that you can help each other answer questions.

3.  We will try to have another meeting :)  This was fun!

Tuesday May 19, 2020

Good morning everyone,

Announcement
1)  Today at 11am, we will have a Google Meet.  I have sent you all emails to your Google Apps account about this.  I also sent it to your parents.  The meet is optional, and is just an opportunity to all connect and say hello, and ask any questions you may have about anything to do with online learning.  If you don't want to participate, it is no problem, you don't have to.

I will post the link here on the blog at around 10:50am

Today's Assignments

Science
- Please complete Science work for Ms. Glanfield
- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

Geography
- Please complete questions #2 & 3 from "Chapter #9 -  Agriculture"
- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Friday May 15, 2020

Good morning everyone,

Announcement
1)  On Tuesday at 11am, we will have a Google Meet.  I have sent you all emails to your Google Apps account about this.  I also sent it to your parents.  The meet is optional, and is just an opportunity to all connect and say hello, and ask any questions you may have about anything to do with online learning.  If you don't want to participate, it is no problem, you don't have to.

Please check the blog on Tuesday for the link you will need to participate in the meeting.


2)  There is no school on Monday.  Enjoy the long weekend! :)

3)  A library newsletter from Mrs. Ford 

Junior/Intermediate Newsletter: Ramadan/Eid Al Fitr 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1utOoOH6Wohg3G6zAODYASMVwwN7sbvXP/view?usp=sharing

Today's Assignments

Literacy

- Today is day 2 of 7 to write your text.
- See assignment instructions on blog.

- Please work on this for at least 45 minutes.

Phys Ed
- Please work on the Phys Ed task "Wellness Task" that was assigned April 27th.
- The task is due next Friday (May 22nd)
- Please work on this for around 45 minutes, or until you are complete.
- Please remember that Mr. D posts weekly tasks that you can choose to do to stay active.
Make sure to check them out :)

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Thursday May 14, 2020

Good morning everyone,

I hope you are all having a wonderful week :)

Math

- Please complete "Percentages".

- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

Literacy

- Today is day 1 of 7 to write your text.
- See assignment instructions on blog.

- Please work on this for at least 45 minutes.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Free Choice
- Please use the last 20 minutes or so to work on anything that you feel you could use some extra time to catch up on.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Wednesday May 13, 2020

Good morning everyone, 

Today's Assignments

Math

- Please complete "Ratios Check-in Quiz".

- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

Literacy

- Today is day 1 of 7 to write your text.
- See assignment instructions on blog.

- Please work on this for at least 45 minutes.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Free Choice
- Please use the last 20 minutes or so to work on anything that you feel you could use some extra time to catch up on.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Tuesday May 12, 2020

Good morning everyone!

Hoping you are all having a good week :)



Today's Assignments

Math

- Please complete "Equivalent Ratios (Part 2)".

- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

Literacy

- Please complete "Planning the structure of your text" task.

- This should take approximately 45 minutes.

Drama
- Please complete "Drama Task #1". This is on the Literacy Google Classroom page.
- Please don't spend any longer than 10 minutes on this.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Mr. Carr

jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Monday May 11, 2020

Good morning everyone,

Announcement
For any students who are observing Ramadan, please do not hesitate to let me know if completing your online assignments is a challenge.  It is my goal to make sure that school never interferes.  My priority is to ensure that the lessons I provide allow Ramadan to remain your priority.  Please let me know if there is anything that I can do to help make sure that you are able to maintain your priorities.  Please let me know anything that you need, or anything that I can do.  Thank you, everyone :)

Today's Assignments

Literacy

- Please complete the assignment "Types of Texts - Creating your own text".

- It should only take about 10 minutes.

Science

- Please complete Ms. Glanfield's Science task.

- This should take 30 minutes.

Geography

- Please complete question #1 ONLY for "Chapter #9 - Agriculture" task

- This should take approximately 20-30 minutes.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Jonathan Carr
jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Friday May 8, 2020

Good morning everyone,

Announcement
For any students who are observing Ramadan, please do not hesitate to let me know if completing your online assignments is a challenge.  It is my goal to make sure that school never interferes.  My priority is to ensure that the lessons I provide allow Ramadan to remain your priority.  Please let me know if there is anything that I can do to help make sure that you are able to maintain your priorities.  Please let me know anything that you need, or anything that I can do.  Thank you, everyone :)

Today's Assignments

Literacy
- Please complete the "Journals Revision Task" which was assigned May 4th (see May 4th blog).  It appears that many people were not able to complete this, so I would like to give another opportunity today.
- Otherwise, there is no Literacy assigned today.

Math
- Please complete "Equivalent Ratios (Part 1)"
- This should take approximately 45 minutes.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Free Choice/Catch Up
- Please use the last 45 minutes to catch up on any work.
- You can complete the Literacy "Journals Revision Task", Geography, Science, French, Music, Health, Phys Ed .... Anything you could use time to complete.

Have a great day,

Jonathan Carr
jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Thursday May 7, 2020

Good morning everyone :)



Announcement
I decided to take down the question documents that were previously at the bottom of each blog post.  They weren't being used, which is completely fine.  Everyone is preferring to use comments on the Classroom documents, private comments and email.  These are all great ways to ask questions, so please continue to ask all the questions you desire through these methods.



Today's Assignments

Literacy
- Please read the important announcement on the Literacy page.  Thank you for checking the blog :)

Literacy
- Please spend 45 minutes doing research for "Let your curiosity guide you task".
- By the end of today, I would like everyone to please make it your goal to have some significant research done.  By "significant" I don't mean a certain number of words or sources, I just mean that you have notes that show that you have been actually learning about the topics you have been researching.  Please don't stress about this, I just want to see that you are having fun, and learning something too :)

Math
- Please complete "What are Ratios (part 2)"
- This should take approximately 45 minutes.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Have a great day,

Jonathan Carr
jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Wednesday May 6, 2020

Good morning everyone,

Announcement
Unfortunately, the "car parade" that I posted on the blog yesterday is having to be cancelled.  The school board is asking all schools to make sure that they do not engage in non-essential travel.  Sorry about this.  I was excited to do it!  Maybe another time :)


Today's Assignments

Health
- Please spend 45 minutes doing research for the "Healthy Eating Research Task".
- Today is your last day for research.  Next time Health is assigned we will complete the assignment, but today is just about getting more research.
- Reminder...

1. Through your research, you should be looking for answers to the following questions…
1. Why does healthy eating really matter?
2. What prevents me, and other people, from eating as healthy as possible?

Math
- Please complete "What are Ratios (part 1)"
- This should take approximately 45 minutes.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.



Any Questions?
- It is very important that you ask questions while you complete your assignments!
- Please write any questions that you have in the document found in the links below.  If you have a private question, you can email me at jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

Literacy Questions

Math Questions

Social Studies Questions

Health & Drama Questions

Have a great day,

Jonathan Carr
jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Tuesday May 5, 2020

Good morning everyone,

I hope everyone is doing well.  We are excited to announce the RHPS Difference Drive.  More details to follow, but many of us teachers will be driving around your neighbourhood next week to say hello.  Details are below.  No throwing eggs at my car!!  LOL! :)

Today's Assignments

Science
- Please complete Mrs. Glanfield's Science
- This should take approximately 30 minutes

Geography
- Please complete the remaining task for Chapter #8 - Rivers/Water Systems
- This should take approximately 60 minutes.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.



Any Questions?
- It is very important that you ask questions while you complete your assignments!
- Please write any questions that you have in the document found in the links below.  If you have a private question, you can email me at jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

Literacy Questions

Math Questions

Social Studies Questions

Health & Drama Questions

Have a great day,

Jonathan Carr
jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Monday May 4, 2020

Good morning everyone,

Today's Assignments

Math
- Please complete the "Converting Metric Units of Area" task
- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

Literacy
- Today we will revise the final question in the "Journal Summative Task".
- Please see the new instructions on the assignment.
- This should take approximately 30 minutes.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.

Free Choice
- You can use the last 30 minutes or so to work on any tasks of  your choice.  You can use it to catch up on work, or you can seek to get ahead in other tasks such as Geography, Phys Ed or Science.





Any Questions?
- It is very important that you ask questions while you complete your assignments!
- Please write any questions that you have in the document found in the links below.  If you have a private question, you can email me at jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

Literacy Questions

Math Questions

Social Studies Questions

Health & Drama Questions

Have a great day,

Jonathan Carr
jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca 

Friday May 1, 2020

Good morning everyone,

Today's Assignments

Math
- Please make sure you have completed and submitted the math check in from Wednesday.
- For those who completed it, I have assessed it and left comments.
- Please check and make any necessary corrections.
- This should not take longer than 30 minutes.

Literacy
- Please spend 45 minutes on the  "Let Your Curiosity Guide You" Task.
- Add to your notes from yesterday
- Please submit what you complete today.

French

- Please complete French work for Mme Murgan on her blog.
- This should take approximately 15 minutes.

Music
- Mr. Alexander has created a Google Classroom for you.
- The class code is rda7tka

- This should take you approximately 10 minutes per day.







Any Questions?
- It is very important that you ask questions while you complete your assignments!
- Please write any questions that you have in the document found in the links below.  If you have a private question, you can email me at jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca

Literacy Questions

Math Questions

Social Studies Questions

Health & Drama Questions

Have a great day,

Jonathan Carr
jonathan.carr@yrdsb.ca