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June 2025
June 2025
It's hard to believe it's the last month of the school year. Our LLC June display focuses on Pride, National Indigenous History month, Italian heritage and Portuguese speaking month. Happy June reading Regal Road!
May 2025
May 2025
A new month means a new display! This month focuses on: Jewish and Asian Heritage month, as well as Better Speech and Hearing month, and Sexual Assault and Prevention month (in age appropriate ways with picture books on the theme of consent). Happy reading Regal road!
CCEL end of April/start of May
CCEL end of April/start of May
Our CCEL (Community Connected Experiential Learning) project with a skilled trades focus on engineering is coming together nicely. We have 3 sessions left with our community partner and will share our smart homes with smart tech features engineered by our students shortly!
April 2025
April 2025
A new month means a new display, April's LLC dispay focuses on Sikh Heritage month, World Autism month, the International Day of Pink (April 9th), Earth day (April 22nd), and adresses Genocide Awareness month (in age appropriate ways).
CCEL and partnerships April
CCEL and partnerships April
Junior and primary students from rooms 21 and 12 have continued to explore design thinking, 3D printing, and robotics through our CCEL. Here is an overview of many of our recent workshops. Two very popular workshops were named "frustration" day and "autonomy" day!
Students in Ms Gharaiya's class have been working on poetry making through the lens of social justice. Students worked with Ms. Gharaiya and me to transform their poetry into CLIPS using ipads during collaborative partnerships (in order to make soundscapes). With Ms Gharaiya and Ms. Ballantyne (learning coach) and myself, students went one step further by transforming their drawings into digital images using an AI image generator on Adobe express. They then started Adobe spoken word videos. Students learned that AI is all about the details!
I went to Tippett the other day (TDSB central library) to learn alongside and share ideas with other teacher-librarians. Here are some pictures of this digital STEM "playground". Lots of ideas flowing and to bring back to RRPS's LLC!
CCEL April
CCEL April
Engineer Design Thinking through Smart home microbit building (skilled tradesfor community connected experiential learning: engineering).
Our 3D printed Regal Road runner mascot!
March 2025
March 2025
A new month means a new diplay! This month is Greek heritage month at the TDSB and dates of significance include International Women's day and Ramadan (Feb 28-March 29). Our LLC displays reflect and celebrate these. Happy reading RRPS!
CCEL MARCH
CCEL MARCH
Students continued to explore Design Thinking (empathize; define; ideate; prototype; test) as they brainstorm and lead up to their engineering and skilled trades project. They will build a smart home using microbits, microbits accessories, coding languages (python, java script), and 3D printed designs! Watch this space for more to come ..!
February 2025
February 2025
February's LLC display focuses on African and Chinese Heritage month. We have a great range of mentor texts to highlight, learn about, and celebrate these heritage months. Library helpers are also curating some books for Valentine's - let's spread to love of reading RRPS!
CCEL
CCEL
CCEL Updates!
CCEL Updates!
CCEL stands for Community Connected Experiential Learning. The goal is to explore the skilled trades and skilled trades career pathways as a school. With this year's CCEL grant, we are focusing on engineering and robot building. We just recieved our 3D printer. Watch this space for exciting updates as our project unfolds. More details to come soon!
CCEL stands for Community Connected Experiential Learning. The goal is to explore the skilled trades and skilled trades career pathways as a school. With this year's CCEL grant, we are focusing on engineering and robot building. We just recieved our 3D printer. Watch this space for exciting updates as our project unfolds. More details to come soon!
Partnerships January-March 2025
Partnerships January-March 2025
Room 31 (grade 4/5) is working on life systems and body systems for science. They are researching and creating 3D animal habitats and 3D body systems. They are then applying STEM skills by learning to colour code with ozobots which will explore and micmick codes relvant to their animal or their body system. Ms. Gharaiya and I are documenting all their great learning as part of a MAP (Mobile Assessment Practices) course we are doing at APPLE. Watch this space as the project unfolds!
Partnerships with Mme De Viveiros's class - room 18
Partnerships with Mme De Viveiros's class - room 18
Room 18 is exploring simple machines through the lens of playgrounds. They must show an example of a levier; roue; poulie; coin; plan incliné; vis (lever; wheel & axel; pulley; wedge; inclined plane; screw) in their 3D playground structures. Next steps include exploring their finished structures with robots..!
Room 18 is exploring simple machines through the lens of playgrounds. They must show an example of a levier; roue; poulie; coin; plan incliné; vis (lever; wheel & axel; pulley; wedge; inclined plane; screw) in their 3D playground structures. Next steps include exploring their finished structures with robots..!
Students in room 21 explored Codey Rockies (that we booked through the professional library) for the first time. Lots of global competencies were practiced as students problem solved, communicated and collaborated in order to figure out how to code with them.
Here is a sneak peek into one of our new partnerships this term. With Mme Gharaiya's class, grade 4 and 5 students will be researching body systems (gr.5) and animals and habitats (gr.4) through a 3D model and ozobot colour coded pathway (with codes that mimick the body system or animal). Students tested out codes with the ozobots this week before delving into research which will start next week.
January 2025
January 2025
A new display for a new year! January 2025's display focuses on social emotional well-being (given it is SAD season: Seasonal Affective Disorder - to give us a boost of positivity), as well as Tamil Heritage month and Chinese new year (which will be celebrated on January 29th this year - it will be the year of the dragon). Happy reading Regal Road!
December 2024
December 2024
The last LLC display of 2024! December's LLC display focuses on all winter celebrations: Christmas (25th); Hanukkah (25th - Jan 2); and Kwanzaa (26 - Jan 1); as well as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (Dec 3); and Human Rights Day (Dec 10). Happy reading RRPS!
December 2024 - partnerships
December 2024 - partnerships
Some of our December partnerships ended with a Gallery Move/STEAM fair. Mr. Stickle's class invited families to see their culminating science projects focused around body and eco systems. Here are some snippets!
JK/SK inquiry focuced on FNMI books with Indigenous education themes; as well as loose parts, computational thinking and literacy through talebot coding on coding maps.
November 2024
November 2024
November's LLC display focuses on Indigenous Education, Hindu Heritage month, Remembrance Day on November 11th, and Anti-Bullying and Prevention week (November 11th-17th). Our display reflects and supports learning around these themes.
GSA
GSA
GSA this year is about all things inclusivity! It is a student-led and driven club that focuses on students' areas of interest. RRPS students want to strive for a more inclusive school climate. This club will involve all things equity and inclusivity including being eco consciousness and being kind to nature! The 11th to the 17th of November is anti-bullying week and students are creating anti-bullying/kindness spreading posters and messages in the school. Watch this space for more to come!
Partnerships November
Partnerships November
Ms. Gharaiya's class is creating narratives around themes of social justice. They will be coding Dashbots to act out their social justice narratives. More to come soon!
Mme Irimescu's class is exploring Indigenous artefacts through Scratch with the Hack the Rom program. Lots of creative wireframing and storyboarding to plan out their Scratch projects showcasing an indigenous aretfact (e.g: Moccasins, deadfall trap etc.). More posts will follow as this project unfolds!
Here is a glimpse into one of our partnerships. With Mr. Stickle's class, students are exploring body and eco systems as part of their science project. They are connecting these to robotics (e.g: ozobot maps of the digestive system and codes that reflect digestive function: tornado code in the stomach to show it churning, zizag in intestines to reflect food making it's way down etc.), as well as other TDSB digital tools such as WEVIDEO, Mindomo, and Adobe Express. They will plug all their finshed work (Mindomo maps, picures of 3D models or ozobot maps) into Book Creator to house all their amazing work in one place! Watch this space for more to come!
October 2024
October 2024
October's LLC display focuses on Islamic and Somali heritage, as well as Women's History month at the TDSB. The International Day of the Girl is Friday October 11th, and Diwali will be celebrated on October 31st this year. Our LLC displays support these themes, happy reading!
Partnerships October
Partnerships October
Curriculum night was a great opportunity to connect with the parent and caregiver community and showcase some of the learning that goes on in the Library Learning Commons. Library helpers hosted STEAM stations. These included an ozobot station; Dashbot race station; Talebot obstacle station; and a TDSB Virtual Library station. Thank you for joining us and for those that couldn't be there, here is a LINK to some info in terms of LLC related learning.
Here is a glimpse at JK/SK inquiry so far. We have been delving into the themes surrounding FNMI (First Nations Metis and Inuit) picture books (e.g: My Heart Fills with Happiness by Monique Gray; and My Day with Yayah by Nicola Campbell).
Some inquiry questions around these read-alouds have been: What gifts do you give back to nature? and What fills your heart with happiness? Students in Ms. Glassman's class explored what filled their hearts with happiness using loose parts and white boards/dry erase markers. Next week they will explore these themes further through coding and robotics.
Some students created and coded a Dashbot race during STEAM stations recently.
A glimpse into October partnerships so far..
With Mr Sticke's class, we will be exploring our research around body and eco systems through ozobot coding and Wevideo for our culminating task.
With Ms Da Silva's class, we will explore communities in Canada: 1780-1850 (gr.3) & Early Societies to 1500 (gr.4) through TDSB VL, Idello, and Wevideo.
With Mme Irimescu's class, we will explore Indigenous ways of knowing and learning combined with coding through the program Hack the ROM to name but a few!
September 2024
September 2024
September LLC display and themes
September LLC display and themes
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation September 30th
Books on the theme of the 1st day(s) of school
International Week of the Deaf (September 20th - September 26th)
Terry Fox: September 15th
International Day of Peace: September 21st
International Dot Day: September 15th
Partnerships September
Partnerships September
This first week of partnerships involved lots of global competencies, STEAM and open inquiry exploration through both English and French. While students explored, homeroom teachers and myself co-created and collaborated on long range plans for this first round of partnerships (September to December).
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