Mr. French’s Blog

I found a neat website from New Zealand that has Math games you can play online for free.  I have added the link to the sidebar or you can find it here:

Math Games

Here’s an outtake from the time we went skating. Tying your skates comfortably can be difficult when you’re first learning. I wanted to show how I tie my skates, but I had to stop the video because I needed both hands to tie mine.

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Your task is to visit the Brain Pop website and select a video from the Earth Day page.

1. Go to http://www.brainpop.com/earthday/
2. Watch the video alone or with your partner.
3. Open Microsoft Word and type the following information

Title: 3-2-1 Earth Day Web Quest

Name: (your names)

Topic: (the title of the video chosen, for example Air Pollution)

Three New Things We Learned:

1.

2.

3.

Two Interesting Facts

1.

2.

One Question We Still Have

1.

HINT: To save time, you can cut and paste the titles into Word (highlight the text, right-click and select “Copy”, then go to Word, right-click and select “Paste”).

You must choose your video in 5 minutes or less.

You may need to watch your video more than once to collect the information.

When finished, print one copy to the “LAB” printer in the library.

If you have extra time leftover you may watch the other Earth Day videos on the website.

I added a new link to the Links menu called Kids’ Search Tools. It’s one web page that has search boxes for all the common information gateways like Wikipedia, Yahooligans and more.

There’s even an on-line thesaurus, so go ahead and spice up your vocabulary! Why say “the game was fun” when you can say “the bout was thrilling”?

Hi everyone,

At the end of the day I handed out photocopies of the four songs we have practiced so far, and a rubric that lets you know what areas will be graded.

If you need to know the fingering for the notes, use your fingering chart or go to the Interactive Recorder Fingering Chart to hear the note and see the fingering.

http://www.musick8.com/rkdojo/rkchart.tpl?cart=12048002246536117

Good luck practicing. I’m at the University of Ottawa again tomorrow and next week is March Break, so enjoy the time with your families and I’ll see you again on March 17th.

Today was my first day back at Century after a week of courses at the university. I’m looking forward to teaching again and I’m glad to have most of my assignments finished.

Today, I taught gym. It looked like bridge tag was a pretty fun warm-up activity. We also played sideline basketball and worked on our passing skills.

We rehearsed the scenes from Holes during drama class, and began performing them in front of the class. What courage! I was really happy to see you getting into your characters. There are still four more groups to go.

DRAMA TIPS:

• Remember to speak with a clear, strong voice so the audience can hear your lines.
• Remember to get animated – bring your character alive with an interesting voice and colourful intonation.
• Remember to make eye contact with the other characters in the play – look up from your script or memorize your lines if you can.

• And have fun .

After lunch, we played shlockey, and then we went skating. What an active day! It was our last time skating this year and I can definitely say that you have improved a lot. Keep at it and you will improve more and gain confidence. When I skate it may look easy, but I’ve been skating for over 20 years! Practice makes perfect.

Last Wednesday, we were treated to a total lunar eclipse. There was a lot of interest about it in class the next day so I thought I’d post a picture and a link so you can find out more about it. The next one is December 21, 2010, but there’ll be a partial eclipse this summer (August 16, 2008) so mark your calendars.

If you click on the “eclipse” link above, you’ll go to Wikipedia, a great free encyclopedia that is made by volunteers.  Anyone can edit it, so you might ask “Is the information accurate?”  Well, it relies on people all over the world to check it and if something is missing they can add it.  So if you know about a topic and you want to contribute, try it.  It’s also a good starting point for researching school projects.

By the way, the human diseases project due date is coming up soon.  If you’re still looking for sources try Wikipedia or Yahoo Kids.

Here’s the video footage from Jacques-Cartier Park last week. What great winter weather weather we’ve been having this year!

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We had a great albeit short time at Jacques-Cartier Park today. Slides were slid down, snow was played in, and smiles were all around. I hope there was something for everyone to enjoy.

Follow the link below to see more pictures.  I’m working on the videos tonight and will post an update soon.

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I’ll be posting some of the pictures from our time at Jacques-Cartier Park later tonight but I wanted to add a post about the Math we’ve been working on lately.

From the looks of the last handout on rotations, there still seems to be some confusion about how to rotate shapes. I’m posting a link to the website I showed in class and I’ll be putting a permanent link on the side of this blog because you can use this website not only for geometry rotations, but also for number & operations, algebra, measurement, and data analysis & probability.

Click HERE to see the web applet below. Try playing around with shapes. Remember: you can only move the shape with the black border – the other shape is its image after rotation. Click on the black circle to change the angle. Make it 90 degrees for a quarter turn.  Put an “X” in the box to show the axes and grid.

Post any questions in the comments section by following the link above.  If it says “No Comments” it’s because no one has posted a comment yet, not because comments aren’t allowed.