Jennifer McDonald @MsMclass211

Thinking tonight, ahead of #MothersDay2021, about the mothers who lost children, the mothers who lost mothers, those yearning to be mothers and those who step into the role of mothers to take care of others. You are ALL loved. ❤️

@VaxHuntersCan We'll be vaccinating essential workers above 40 from 5:30pm - 8pm tomorrow at #LawlorPharmasave , no appointment necessary just bring proof of employment and walk in. #frontlineworkers #daycareworkers #grocerystoreworkers #factoryworkers #restaurantemployees

Turns out it’s true that when you reach the end of Netflix Betty White is waiting there for you with a plateful of your favourite cookies.

Effective Monday, #ontarioteachers and daycare workers over 55 can be vaccinated at #LawlorPharmasave without making an appointment. Just bring proof of employment and walk in.

Is Jurassic Park looking for some dinosaur wranglers?.We built dino pens with perimeters of at least 20 cube links. Happy to report that we had no escapees overnight.

Never underestimate the healing powers of a good apology. Sketchnote via @SylviaDuckworth

EAs don’t get paid enough. They should all get paid $1 million for the stuff they have to deal with in a day. That is all.

Room 211's reflections on what peace means to them and why we observe Remembrance Day. "Peace is quiet." "Peace is love, love, love." "Peace is good times in the future." Let's hope for this.

Using two sided counters to investigate how many addition sentence we can make with a sum of 10. We then expanded our investigation to 12 counters, then 20.

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Counting the seeds in our pumpkin by 10s today. Students filled in 5 and 10 frames to make the counting easier. 367 seeds later. we finally finished!

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Happy School 🏫 🚌 Bus Driver Appreciation Day! I grew up taking the bus everyday and I am grateful for all that you do, especially during challenging times. Thank 🙏 a driver today 😀. Thank you for your contribution in educating children @tdsb @TCDSB @PeelSchools @DurhamDsb

Bear dens using materials we found in nature as well man made recyclable pieces. Students drew a plan before beginning their construction. Some words we used to describe how the inside of the den should be- cozy, dark and dry. The outside- strong and camouflaged.

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After reading this #KevinHenkes classic, we discussed how bears adapt to the changing seasons. Then we wrote about our favourite seasons.

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Some great books read in class over the last few days about different types of families and our roles and responsibilities in our families.

Keeping in touch with our emotions at GW #zonesofregulation

Continuing our work with numbers. Using dice and a whiteboard to make greater than/less than and equal to math sentences. We also played crocodile math outside where the crocodile (Ms McDonald) needed to capture the students with a number greater than 10.

Gourd rolling! Add a number line to a collection of #autumn treasures for a great game #outdoors. Children can roll the lopsided gourds and challenge themselves to see how far they can travel. Big body movement, counting and measurement! #joyfulmath #WednesdayMotivation

Sorting letters by observing what they individually look like, and determining whether or not they each have a hole. Integrated #math and #literacy. #joyfulmath #mathchat

Today our #outsidemath included assembling a number line to 20 using foam mats and practicing our addition facts by counting/stepping on using our number line. We also played even and odd number freeze tag with our mats.

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Today we #tookthemathoutside with the problem- if each student collects 5 leaves how many leaves will we have all together? Counting by 5s and some good estimation strategies like counting a small number of leaves to start. The answer- we collected 75 leaves!