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Posted: January 10, 2022

Math Class

Dear parents and students,

I hope you all enjoyed your break! For the next few weeks (from January 11th to 21st) we will be learning online, beyond that is still uncertain. DLMS will be running a temporary online schedule. Your homeroom teacher should have posted your online, condensed schedule, on their teacher page. Please note that the schedule consists of six core subjects in the morning and Physical Wellness/Independent Reading in the afternoon. The schedule has been shortened to six 30 minute classes in the morning with 2 breaks, a lunch break and then the afternoon reading and wellness schedule.  

For the duration of online learning, I will be using Microsoft Teams as my teaching platform for Math. Following your schedule, you will be required to join in on a class call with me during your scheduled class. The call invitation has been sent to you through Teams and you will be able to find it through your Class Team and/or your Teams Calendar. We will all meet in a Teams call at the beginning of each Math class and then you will be given independent time to work on your Math and I will be online and available during the rest of that scheduled class to answer questions and help out however I can.

How do I hand in my Math work to be assessed? When you finish a page, you can use Independent Study or Math Block to send me your Math. To do so: You should take a picture of EACH page separately and ensure that the PAGE NUMBERS and QUESTION NUMBERS are at the top of EACH page, in EACH picture that you send. I will look it over, offer any corrections to be made, and if everything is good to go, I will mark you down as virtually signed off on that page. You should be sending me EACH page as your complete them. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to message me on Teams or to my email: lindsay.turner@nbed.nb.ca

See you all tomorrow!

Madame Turner

Posted: June 10, 2020

Home Learning Week 10

Hi Knights, 

This is the final week of Home Learning! We’ve all MADE IT!

DreamBox: Continue working on the assignments laid out for you!

ASD-N STEAM Weekly Challenge 10: This weeks ASD-N's STEAM Challenge will (hopefully) keep you a float! The guidelines for this week's challenge are attached below. Don't forget to tag @stemnorth on twitter, @STEAMASDN on facebook with your pictures, videos or comments or send your pictures and videos to me at Lindsay.turner@nbed.nb.ca.

Science: The world has changed so much in the last few months, many places saw drastic changes to the environment around them. Before watching the following video, what are some things that you can think of that improved with mass populations isolated, what are some things that got worse? Feel free to email your thoughts!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNWkKoty4tI

Best of luck finishing the year strong!

Madame Turner

Posted: June 2, 2020

Learning From Home Week 9

Learning From Home - Week 9

Hello June! We've made it to the last month of this school year! Next week is our last week for our Learning From Home Weeks.  

DreamBox: As always, try and keep your skills strong, I would love to hear via email how you've been doing. Did you learn any neat Math concepts lately? What did you discover is "easier than you thought, or "harder than you thought"? Anything that you really worked hard, wanted to quit but you think you finally got the hang of? Anything surprising with the lessons or concepts?

Keep up the great work Knights!

ASD-N STEAM Weekly Challenge 8: This weeks ASD-N's STEAM Challenge may have your drooling......and hungry..... Don't forget to tag @stemnorth on twitter, @STEAMASDN on facebook with your pictures, videos or comments or send your pictures and videos to me at lindsay.turner@nbed.nb.ca

Science: Have the bugs and mosquitos been as bad at your house as they have been at mine? Taking the garbage out has me trying to lug the heavy bags as fast as I can to get away from the buzzing of mosquitos. I also wonder why my friend and I can both go outside and the bugs buzz constantly around me to the point my arms whipping around look like I'm trying to fly away, and my friend hasn't even noticed the bugs?!? I found this article, and although I can't be certain this is the only reason why they swarm, it would be an interesting STEM fair project to do if we had mosquitos during Stem Fair Season.... Check out the link: https://www.kidsnews.com.au/health/unsw-scientists-reveals-mosquitoes-are-picky-and-wont-bite-just-anyone/news-story/5341c271a825998d5875e98e12084965 and let me know what your experience has been and what you think about this article. 

Hope you're all having a fabulous week, and that the storm of mosquitos and bugs stay away!

Madame Turner

Posted: May 27, 2020

Learning From Home - Week 8

We have some sunny weather this week, and thankfully a bit of rain to help with forest fires!

DreamBox: Continue working on your lessons, don't give up if it gets difficult, just reach out by email and I will do my best to help guide you through it virtually.

Science: With numerous forest fires in the areas, I did some research about forest fires and thought I would share a couple sites with you. Things I learned: What a crown fire is and a tornado fire, both are quite interesting.  Check out what those things are and more, in the two links below. 

https://www.ducksters.com/science/earth_science/forest_fires.php

https://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-wildfire.htm

ASD-N STEAM Weekly Challenge This weeks ASD-N's STEAM Challenge Rube Goldberg for the win this week - I just love watching the machines unravel, read all about it in this weeks flyer!

Until next week Knights,

Madame Turner

Posted: May 19, 2020

Learning From Home - Week 7

Learning From Home - Week 7

Hello everyone!

Hope everyone has checked out that weather this week, we finally have some sun our way!

DreamBox: I've noticed many of you really clocking in the hours on Dreambox - AH-MAY-ZING job Knights!!! Very proud of you all! Feel free to msg me if you have any questions, or if you have not yet received your login information.

ASDN Weekly Challenge 7: http://drlosier.nbed.nb.ca/sites/drlosier.nbed.nb.ca/files/doc//y2020/May/asdn_weekly_steam_issue_7_grade_6-8.pdf

Science East has put out a fun activity to do. You can do it on paper too but if you're out in the sun, it's a fun way to enjoy the weather and get your thinking cap on! Feel free to send me any pictures of your activities this week, including this one! 

 

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Miss you all so much, 

 

Madame Turner

Posted: May 12, 2020

Home Learning Week 6

Home Learning Week 6

Math – Great job working on your Math skills on Dreambox! These skills will be strengthened and you'll be prepared to continue to grow these skills when we get together again! https://play.dreambox.com/login/knjs/aaj2. 

If you have not emailed me for your username and password yet, please do so.  You can send the email to lindsay.turner@nbed.nb.ca. 

 

Science – Aligning with the ASDN Weekly STEM challenge below, I came across this video about water. I was surprised at some of the statistics she gave but found the whole thing to be very interesting! Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaQCiwzjnCM

ASDN Weekly STEM Challenge - http://drlosier.nbed.nb.ca/sites/drlosier.nbed.nb.ca/files/noteattach//y2020/May/asdn_weekly_steam_issue_6_grade_6_-_8.pdf 

Hope you enjoy the week and looks to be calling for some sunny days in the forcast - finally!!!

Madame Turner

Posted: May 5, 2020

Home Learning Week 5

Math – Dreambox is still the way to go! I’m very proud of everyone who has logged on to try and chip away at strengthening their Math skills. Bravo! https://play.dreambox.com/login/knjs/aaj2. 

If you have not emailed me for your username and password yet, please do so.  You can send the email to lindsay.turner@nbed.nb.ca. 

 

Science – Aligning with the ASDN Weekly STEM challenge, check out this page that gives all sorts of easily explained details surrounding climate change. Try and take one thing away from the site that you didn't already know. https://climatekids.nasa.gov/climate-change-meaning/

ASDN Weekly STEM Challenge - http://drlosier.nbed.nb.ca/sites/drlosier.nbed.nb.ca/files/noteattach//y2020/May/asdn_weekly_steam_issue_5_grade_6_-8.pdf

Hope you enjoy the week (and that we don's see snow again until the winter),

Madame Turner

Posted: April 28, 2020

Home Learning Week 4

Home Learning Week 4

 

Math – Dreambox is still the way to go! I’m very proud of everyone who has logged on to try and chip away at strengthening their Math skills. Bravo! https://play.dreambox.com/login/knjs/aaj2. 

If you have not emailed me for your username and password yet, please do so.  You can send the email to lindsay.turner@nbed.nb.ca. 

 

Science – All this talk of “bubble families” combined with the nice weather outside, got me thinking about actual BUBBLES. I found this cool video on the Science of bubbles, along with some homemade activities you could do at home. You can find lots of activities on the website, my personal fave is the square bubble! If you try any of these, I would love to see any pictures or videos. Feel free to email me your attempts, and if you get the dish soap out, you may as well wash some dishes while you’re at it!  https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/bubbles/

ASDN Weekly STEM Challenge - http://drlosier.nbed.nb.ca/sites/drlosier.nbed.nb.ca/files/noteattach//y2020/Apr/asdn_weekly_steam_issue_4_grade_6-8_0.pdf

WIshing you all a famtastic week. 

Madame Turner

Posted: April 21, 2020

Week 3

Week 3 - Learning From Home

Hey guys, here's what's on the menu for all you this week. Feel free to check it out:

Math -  Dreambox Online Program. The website is https://play.dreambox.com/login/knjs/aaj2.  If you have not emailed me for your username and password yet, please do so.  You can send the email to lindsay.turner@nbed.nb.ca.  

 

Science - http://drlosier.nbed.nb.ca/sites/drlosier.nbed.nb.ca/files/noteattach//y2020/Apr/asdn_weekly_steam_issue_3_grade_6-8.pdf 

Earth Week - With the world moving a bit slower these days, are there things about the world we live in that you've had the time to appreciate more now that we are home? Check out this video to give you some insight in to what scientists appreciate most about our planet, it's pretty interesting to hear their thoughts. https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1271511/Earth-Day-2020-what-is-Earth-Day-why-celebrate-50-anniversary

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day, 

Madame Turner

Posted: April 7, 2020

Dreambox

Although we have the login information for Dreambox, there seems to be an issue with them working properly. As soon as the issue is resolved, I will reply those of you who have already emailed me to get that information. Thanking you for your patience. 

Mme Turner

 

Posted: April 6, 2020

BONJOUR!!!!

 

A big BONJOUR to all my kiddos! Oh how I wish we were talking in person. I hope everyone is staying safe, taking the time to try new things that are good for the soul, maybe even finding a new hobby or talent! I also want to give a shout out of sincere appreciation to all the frontline workers, especially those directly tied to our Amazing Dr. Losier Knights Family. THANK YOU all for your hard work!!!!

 

As we navigate this new world of Learning from Home, I want you all to know that this is all NEW to each one of us, including myself. It will take some time to get used to but I'm hoping that with regular practice from all of us, that this all becomes much easier to navigate in the coming weeks. As of right now, you have some time to navigate these teacher sites, and “visit” all your familiar faces that I know you all miss so much.

 

DLMS has decided to use the online Math platform: DreamBox for continued Math learning. Students will need a specific username and password to access their individual profiles. These credentials are provided to us by an outside source and should be available this week. To receive your login information, please email me at Lindsay.Turner@nbed.nb.ca and I will forward your child’s login information as soon as it becomes available. I will also post a link to the DreamBox login page with instructions in a separate post. Hang tight as we should be starting in the coming days!

 

I know we tend to give you all a hard time for the over use of cell phones and technology use, and how ironic it is that we are now so appreciative for these tools, to keep us connected in this time of “self-isolation”. I came across this video today and thought it was pretty interesting. It’s just a few minutes long but it’s so cool how it explains exactly how your text message to your friend gets sent through the air, directly to their phone. Pretty neat stuff, check it out here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/the-physics-behind-texting/

 

Thanking you all in advance for your patience as we get the ball rolling and will be back on here soon,

 

Mme Turner