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A beautiful early example of visualizing the flow of history, Sebastian C. Adams’ Synchronological Chart of Universal History outlines the evolution of mankind from Adam and Eve to 1871, the year of its first edition.
A recreation can be found and closely examined at the David Rumsey Map Collection, which allows you to zoom in on any part of the original timeline, which stretched to 23 feet in length and was designed for schoolhouses as a one-stop shop for all of history.
The Synchronological Chart is a great work of outsider thinking and a template for autodidact study; it attempts to rise above the station of a mere historical summary and to draw a picture of history rich enough to serve as a textbook in itself.
Adams was a voracious reader and a good Christian, and in the top half ofthe chart he attempts to untangle the spaghetti-like genealogy of Adam and Eve’s children from Abel (“The First Martyr”) through to Solomon (whose temple looks very Gothic), all the way through to Jesus and beyond. At the same time he presents a detailed description of archaeological history “after the flood,” from Stone Age tools through the earliest civilizations, mentioning major battles, inventions, philosophers, and advances in science. Adams’ starting date of all history comes from the Irish Archbishop James Ussher, who, in 1654 declared after years of study that the earth was created on “nightfall on 22 October 4004 BC.” (Now that’s certainty!)
The map is colorful and filled with beautiful illustrations from the self-taught Adams, from a drawing of Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream to the current world leaders and a list of United States Presidents up to James Garfield. There’s even a section at the far end for “Eminent Men not elsewhere mentioned on the Chart,” the sign of a true completist (except for the part where he leaves out women).
Adams lived far from the epicenters of American education. He grew up in a Presbyterian family in Ohio, and, when he showed a skill for teaching later in life, he made the trek out west, nearly dying on the Oregon Trail. He settled in Salem, Oregon and began teaching while also working on his chart. When it was ready to print, he traveled back to Cincinnati to hire the esteemed lithographers Strobridge & Co., who published Civil War scenes, maps, and circus posters. Initially he sold the chart himself, but its popularity led to several American and British printers producing copies into the 20th century. Even Horror writer H.P. Lovecraft owned a copy.
It remains a riotous work of art, history, religion, and self-determination, and facsimiles can still be purchased online. Adams later left teaching to become president of an insurance company, and died of “la grippe” (i.e. the flu) in 1898.
The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat hanging unused in your closet belongs to those who need it; the shoes rotting in your closet to the one who has no shoes. The money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.
More often than not, Lord, we are afraid of truth. It threatens our identities we have created for ourselves and the ways we are comfortable perceiving others. Give us ears to hear your truth as blessing and mouths to celebrate your truth as gift. Amen.
St. Anthony Today:
Recycling Day – (black and blue bins open please)
Ms Rupnik’s Class Rosemount Library
Let’s get animated!!!
Location: Rm 26
Block One 8:30 -9:45 : Grade 4 Immersion Girard
Block Two: 10:00 – 11:15 Grade 5 Colaiacovo
Block Three 12:15 – 1:30 : Grade 6 – Hubert
Staff Social at Meg’s – 4:00PM
Summary of responses:
I have a Voice comes out on top so we will go with this starting next week
Because I am a believer, I will live my life like Jesus.
I HAVE A VOICE!
I speak, write and listen as Jesus would want me to
I care about others and speak up for them
I am honest
I think carefully before I react or speak
I respect all people and their languages
I listen to the Word of God
As for PD – there is no clear consensus, however we will be working on all of these next year as we continue to work on digital integration – this should be the focus of our SIP which we will start working on this morning.
As an alternative, I am suggesting we bring Jeff Ross in to do a variety of activities with us that can include 3D printing, basic programming, littlebit kits and raspberry pis. I have asked him to put together a series of interactive activities for all of you. The basic objective of the day will be to give you some exposure to the work our kids did on the Maker Faire day and in the makerspace. The day is tentatively planned for June 8th and I will come to see you to find out if you prefer morning or afternoon then we will book supply teachers for you.
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
I believe that we can talk to God anytime and anywhere, through prayer
I believe in the stories of the Bible
I believe in the stories of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection
I believe in the Church community, celebrating Mass, and the seven Sacraments
I believe in forgiveness
Because I am a believer, I will live my life like Jesus.
I HAVE A VOICE!
I speak, write and listen as Jesus would want me to
I care about others and speak up for them
I am honest
I think carefully before I react or speak
I respect all people and their languages
I listen to the Word of God
Because I have a voice, I will use it lovingly, and I will live my life like Jesus.
I HAVE IDEAS!
I have thoughts and opinions that matter
I make good choices
I have hope for the future
I solve problems with knowledge, understanding and prayer
I know we are all equal and special
Because I have ideas, I have a purpose, and I will live my life like Jesus.
I AM A LEARNER FOR LIFE!
I use my gifts and talents given to me by God
I always do my best
I build on my strengths and weaknesses
I set goals
I accept change
I am proud of the good things I do
I am thankful for the gifts of others
Because I am a learner for life, I can reach for my dreams, by living my life like Jesus.
I AM A TEAM PLAYER!
I co-operate with others in all that I do
I value everyone’s work
I respect and listen to others
I think of others before myself
I follow rules of fair play
I work hard in school so that I can build my community and make it a better place
Because I am a team player, I know that ‘Together is Better’, and we will live our lives like Jesus.
I CARE!
I love God, myself and my family
I care about and respect my ‘family’ at school, at Church, in the community, and the world
I care about and respect God’s creation and everything in it
Because I care, I pray for all my families, and I will live my life like Jesus.
I HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES!
I am a peace-maker
I am fair
I am forgiving
I follow rules and do my share
I help the poor and care for people in need
I stand up for what is right
I know that all life is precious
I respect and protect the world and all that is in it
Because I accept my responsibilities, I can make a difference, and will live my life like Jesus.
sample brochure for the family social – any thoughts?? Really important – we won’t go ahead with this plan unless we get funding from school council.
St. Anthony today
Paul away all day – CLL
Weeding Wednesday Session for the GREEN Club
After a very long and cold winter, Spring has finally arrived! With the warm sunny weather upon us, the Green Club has started WeedingWednesdays sessions during lunch hour recess. Equipped with garden gloves and some tools, students in the Green Club remove weeds from the flower beds found inside the playground area once a week. This will encourage the daffodils, tulips, lilies and other plants to grow and blossom. It’s also an important learning opportunity for the students. When students work in gardens, they experience being in nature and learn to take care of living things. Way to go, Green Club!
Let’s get animated!!!
Location: Room 26
Block One 8:30 -9:45 : Grade 4 ext Colaiacovo
Block Two: 10:00 – 11:15 Grade 6 – Hubert
Block Three 12:15 – 1:30 : Grade 4 Immersion Girard
Photograph by Amanda Curtis on Twitter Amanda Curtis snapped this pic of a rare quadruple rainbow while waiting for her Long Island train to New York on the morning of 21 April 2015. Curtis was waiting at Glen Cove station when she spotted it. The area had recently received a large amount of rain…
verse of the day Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Thank you, Lord, that you never abandon us to our hopelessness. There is always room at your table for those who feel forgotten, or who have been cast out. Train us in such hospitality. Amen.
– Common Prayer
St. Anthony Today
National Denim Day: Breast Cancer – $2.00 to wear jeans today
I enjoy discussing iPad and other edtech resources with my colleague and friend Sylvia Duckworth almost every week through Twitter. Sylvia is a leader in the French teaching community in Canada, and has created an enormous amount of resources for language teachers to use. I asked her if she wanted to collaborate on this post, and she quickly agreed to do so. Below is a list of iPad apps that we both use in our language classrooms. The ones marked with an * are the essential, must-have ones. We have divided the list into two categories: Content consumption apps and content creation apps.
I would like to thank everyone for a really wonderful Education Week. Everyone was so welcoming, and activities like the volunteer appreciation event were truly unique to the St. Anthony community. There were activities and disruptions every day, but you all rolled with the schedule and made sure your kids enjoyed all the events that we collectively put on for them.
Our children and parents are very fortunate to work with such a committed and caring group of educators. Your dedication to our students and families makes St. Anthony a very special place to work. St. Anthony is a community of people who care and this came out so many times throughout the week. I had a great time and feel blessed to be able to be part of such a unique group of people.
While there is lots more to come in the next few weeks, I really think that this past week was one of the true highlights of the entire year. Thank-you for all you continue to do to create an enriched, caring atmosphere at our school. It is truly amazing what a small group of educators can accomplish!
Have a great (and quieter) week this week
Paul
St. Anthony This Week
Monday, May 11
Shaun Elie (Masc) Workshops begin
Let’s get animated!!!
Focus on the tools and techniques required to create a ‘stop animation’. Students will understand the fundamental aspects of an animation, design concepts, construction techniques, voice over and audio editing procedures and most notably the importance of how to transform creative ideas into expressive works of art. For residencies of five days or longer, a workshop series in artistic video creation and editing is also available. This dynamic video-making project will teach students a comprehensive knowledge of the fundamental aspects of making artistic video and how to see through the lens of a camera.
– See more at: http://www.masconline.ca/en/artists/directory/shaun-elie.aspx#sthash.I76vHiPS.dpuf
Detailed Schedule here: Thanks Nora for putting this schedule together!!
Location: Learning Commons
Block One 8:30 -9:45 : Grade 6 – Hubert
Block Two: 10:00 – 11:15 Grade 5 Colaiacovo
Block Three 12:15 – 1:30 : Grade 4 ext Colaiacovo
11:30 Hip Hop in the gym at lunch
2:00 PM Ecology Ottawa meeting at school (Learning Commons) Paul and Andrew
One of Growing Up Organic’s primary roles is to support schools in the establishment and continued activity of their organic school garden programs. To this end, we offer a number of services to schools across Ottawa. Click here for a map showing locations of schools we have partnered with throughout the years.
School Gardens
Our GUO program partners with individual schools to establish vegetable gardens on school grounds as the basis for experiential education at all grade levels. We develop and deliver garden-based workshops that are linked to the Ontario curriculum. Interested in working with GUO to set up an organic garden at your school? Check out our spiffy new breakdown on Getting Started with Growing Up Organic.
Block Three 12:15 – 1:30 : Grade 4 Immersion Girard
Chess club at lunch today
Table Tennis after school
Wednesday, May 13
Paul away all day – CLL
Let’s get animated!!!
Location: Learning Commons
Block One 8:30 -9:45 : Grade 4 ext Colaiacovo
Block Two: 10:00 – 11:15 Grade 6 – Hubert
Block Three 12:15 – 1:30 : Grade 4 Immersion Girard
Thursday, May 14
SIPsa session at Board – Paul, Nora and Meg attending (AM)
Recycling Day – (black and blue bins open please)
Let’s get animated!!!
Location: Learning Commons
Block One 8:30 -9:45 : Grade 4 Immersion Girard
Block Two: 10:00 – 11:15 Grade 5 Colaiacovo
Block Three 12:15 – 1:30 : Grade 6 – Hubert
Staff Social at Meg’s – 4:00PM
Friday, May 15
Let’s get animated!!!
Little Horn Theatre St. Anthony’s *AGRI ARTIST STORY TELLER – morning
Location: Learning Commons
Block One 8:30 -9:45 : Grade 5 Colaiacovo
Block Two: 10:00 – 11:15 Grade 4 Immersion Girard
Block Three 12:15 – 1:30 : Grade 4 ext Colaiacovo
Gr. 1/2 Rosemount Library 12:30
Fractions Learning Pathways (Edugains)
This interactive planning tool for teaching fractions provides educators with a research informed framework. It includes a range of field-tested tasks (grades 3-10) with video and photos. There are also one page summaries of key fractions math ideas and anticipation guides that feature Ontario students’ thinking.
Money by mathies is a digital learning tool that can be used to represent various amounts using realistic images of Canadian coins and bills.
Notepad by mathies is a digital learning tool that provides a vehicle for students to write solutions, sketch diagrams, create graphs and record their mathematical thinking.
It is not for oneself alone that each person asks to be forgiven, not to be led into temptation, or to be delivered from evil. Rather, we pray in public as a community, and not for one individual but for all. -Cyprian of Carthage
prayer of the day
Lord, you have woven the threads of creation too finely together for any of us to exist as islands unto ourselves. Teach us to delight in your web of life and to know ourselves in community. Amen. – Common Prayer
St. Anthony Today
Coffee and snacks for parents in the yard before and during school – every day this week
Get a family portrait! All week we are taking pictures of parents with their kids. Each photo will be made into a 5 x 7 portrait for the family. We hope then to make a great composite of the St. Anthony Community by the end of the week!
Story-telling day – visits by authors to our school
Little Horn Theatre St. Anthony’s *AGRI ARTIST STORY TELLER -JK/SK – two sessions in Kindergarten classes
Chris Nihemy, author, presenting on reading and writing to the primary and junior classes
9:00 am – Primaries – 60 students in learning commons
9:45 am – Whole school class photo to be taken from the roof of St. Anthony! Photo by Edge Imaging – 9:30 am
10:15 – 11:15 grade 4/5 in learning commons
12:30 – 1:30 grade 5/6 in learning commons
First Reconciliation will be Friday @ 6:00 p.m., First Eucharist Saturday @ 5:00 p.m.
There are so many classroom management tools that I love (here’s a list of 19!). Two of my favorites iLEAP Pick A Student and Random Name Selector makes sure that you call on every student in your class. Instead of the traditional coffee can full of popsicle sticks with students’ names on them, use one of these free apps to make sure that all of your students are held accountable in class discussions. Try projecting the screen from your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch so that students can see which one of their peers is up next!
Check out one of my Common Core aligned lesson plans where these apps could be used during discussion time!
Android users can check out this similar app on the Google Play Store.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
prayer of the day
O Lord, we praise you for being a God that loves integrity. Help us to tell the truth about ourselves. Where there is self-doubt, sow confidence. Where there is pride, sow humility. Amen.
Follow These Teachers Through Their Day and Feel the Love
What are the ingredients in a day in the life of an educator? You bravely take risks like a base jumper, you bring sheer joy like the duct-tape surfer, you fight injustice like Superman, and you nurture like the kitten-rescuing fireman. But most of all, you bring love to your work.
Every day, you go boldly into your classrooms and face a room full of expectant kids. Or bored ones, or nervous ones, or hungry ones, or excited ones. You must find a way, for those few precious hours, to be their guide, their entertainment, their support, their leader. Wherever you are coming from, wherever they are coming from, you must meet in the middle and make magic happen, because you are an educator — driven by the belief that you can make a difference in the life of a young person.
Here’s to you for dealing with meltdowns; for celebrating small victories. Here’s to you for coming in early and staying late; for giving your all for your students, so that the magic of learning can be sparked in their hearts. Here’s to you for bringing love to every kid’s life. In honor of National Teacher Day — and every day — Edutopia salutes you!
O God, may we recapture the spirit of the early church. May we watch over those suffering in our congregations as well as all those outcast and downtrodden by empires today. Amen.
St. Anthony Today
Rosary schedule
Every 1st Wednesday of the month, beginning October 1st
FDK1 10:30-10:45 FDK2 10:45-11 (Lucy)
1/2 Cook: 12:15-12:35 (Maruka) 1 and 2/3: 12:35-12:55 (Maruka-Learning Commons) Gr. 4/5 Mr. Girard: 12:55-1:25 (Lucy) Gr. 5/6 1:45-2:30 (Lucy)
This morning David Petrie reminded me about a post that I wrote five years ago on building your own review games. In doing so he pointed out that one of the resources was offline. I then took some time to revisit the other resources in that post. One of those was What2Learn.
What2Learn is a site offering lots of review games on topics in math, science, social studies, and language arts. Most of the games are of the question and answer variety. Students can play the games without registering on the site. While it is nice to have a place to find games, the reason I’m bringing up What2Learn is to point out the option for building your review games.
On the What2Learn Game Machine you can select from sixteen game templates to use as the framework for your game. You can play a sample game representative of each template before you begin building your game. Once you’ve chosen a template all that you have to do is input the questions or prompts you want to use and the correct responses. What2Learn does review each game for content before it is live on the site. The review process can take 24 hours. If you don’t want to wait for your game to be reviewed you can purchase a premium What2Learn Game Machine account.
Applications for Education If you already have a list of questions and answers, perhaps from an old quiz, then building a review game on What2Learn Game Machine won’t take long at all. The advantage of creating your own game compared to relying on pre-made games is that you can customize the content of the game to directly match your curriculum.
Solitude and Silence Tuesday, May 5, 2015 The desert fathers and mothers withdrew from cities to the desert to live freely, apart from the economic, cultural, and political structure (the Roman Empire) that first persecuted the church and then later gave it a privileged status–in the empire’s own search for uniformity and control. The desert fathers and mothers knew, as should we, that the empire would be an unreliable partner. They recognized that they had to find inner freedom from the system before they could return to it with true love, wisdom, and helpfulness. This is the continuing dynamic to this day, otherwise “Culture eats Christianity for breakfast” to paraphrase Peter Drucker, and our deep transformative power is largely lost.
How do we find inner freedom? Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you’re in your mind, you’re hardly ever at peace, and when you’re at peace, you’re never only in your mind. The Early Christian abbas (fathers) and ammas (mothers) knew this, and first insisted on finding the inner rest and quiet necessary to tame the obsessive mind. Their method was first called the prayer of quiet and eventually was referred to as contemplation. It is the core teaching in the early Christian period and emphasized much more in the Eastern Church than in the West.
In a story from Benedicta Ward’s The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: “A brother came to Scetis to visit Abba Moses and asked him for a word. The old man said to him, ‘Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything.'”[1] But you don’t have to have a cell, and you don’t have to run away from the responsibilities of an active life, to experience solitude and silence. Amma Syncletica said, “There are many who live in the mountains and behave as if they were in the town, and they are wasting their time. It is possible to be a solitary in one’s mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is a solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts.”[2]
By solitude, the desert mystics didn’t mean mere privacy or protected space, although there is a need for that too. The desert mystics saw solitude, in Henri Nouwen’s words, as a “place of conversion, the place where the old self dies and the new self is born, the place where the emergence of the new man and the new woman occurs.”[3] Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love. Quite often this can happen right in the midst of human relationships and busy lives.
Especially when outward distractions disappear, we find that the greatest distraction from reality and from divine union is our own busy mind and selfish heart. Anthony the Great said: “The man who abides in solitude and is quiet, is delivered from fighting three battles: those of hearing, speech, and sight. Then he will have but one battle to fight–the battle of the heart.”
Richard Rohr
St. Anthony Today Tuesday, May 5th
Coffee and snacks for parents in the yard before and during school – every day this week
Get a family portrait! All week we are taking pictures of parents with their kids. Each photo will be made into a 5 x 7 portrait for the family. We hope then to make a great composite of the St. Anthony Community by the end of the week!
Open House for the Primary Language Class – morning
Public Library visits to begin – 45 Rosemount grade 1 today at 9:00 AM – parents welcome to join us!
Volunteer/Community Partner Appreciation tea – this is a great opportunity to meet the community partners we work with. Assembly 4th block – tea and refreshments in the staffroom after the assembly
Table Tennis starts again – Round Two – eight week program
As we progress rapidly into the middle of the second decade of the 21st century, questions continue to be raised about how education addresses the ever increasing demands for change, integrating emerging technologies, and maximising the possibilities for every student.
Teachers are searching for ways to focus on engaging students in authentic, complex and powerful problem solving experiences for learning, unpacking content and demonstrating understanding and knowledge. The day is a finite resource, and class times are small segments of that day, so there are limitations on how much more can be accomplished in that specified time.
Flipped Learning for a Flipped World
Educators recognise changes in the learning expectations of current students from previous generations – the millennial student who has grown up using rapidly evolving technologies and has instant information access, has less tolerance for traditional lecture style teaching. The “digital native” student is one whose access to technologies has directed their acquisition and processing of information, thinking and learning, which has become fundamentally different from previous generations. The big question then focuses on how class time may be utilised for maximum student-teacher interaction. Flipped learning can be considered broadly as an approach to teaching that transforms the learning environment into a dynamic, interactive space where students have opportunities to engage in unpacking content, apply concepts and maximise the resources available within the school. These resources include experts in subject areas (teachers), peers, traditional texts and technologies.
Traditional classroom learning
Flipping The Numbers
In 2012, forty teachers were surveyed on how much time they spent reviewing and repeating classroom information to students during one 60 minute class period. The results indicated that on average, a staggering 39 minutes of the 60 minutes was spent introducing, reviewing and repeating content. The results also indicated that opening and closing activities by teachers were consuming an additional 5-8 minutes of classroom time. In total, approximately 44-47 minutes of the total 60 minutes of class time was spent presenting and reviewing information with only (on average) 13-16 minutes interacting with students unpacking content. Further evaluation revealed that the minimal amount of classroom practice time equated to 65-80 minutes per week, and 43-55 hours per year within a 40-week school year. Using this data, potentially, a student taking four years of a core subject might receive between 172-220 hours a year out of a possible 800 hours available for processing and unpacking content for understanding.
Flipping to Engage Active Learning
Active learning involves students being engaged in learning tasks that enable inquiry, creative response and thoughtful participation. Teachers are finding ways to restructure class activities so there is greater focus on the learning process and less on direct teaching. As educators, we also realise that no longer are we preparing students for factories, but rather, for a more rigorous, flexible, technology-dependent, and collaborative global economy.
K-12 students need teachers’ expertise and assistance more than ever to provide clarity and connectedness with learning and real world contextualisation. With increased complexity of problems, students need to draw upon the expertise of outside experienced experts and their own peers in addition to the classroom teacher. They also need the necessary resources and a positive, purposeful, learning environment. Traditionally, delivery of content has been built around the provision of content information in class and students do most of the processing at home for homework. In the Flipped Learning Model, classroom time is structured around activities that develop a deeper and more thorough understanding of content. Whilst there is no one specific model for flipping the classroom, the core model is to create videos and interactive lessons to introduce content and information. Students review this for homework and use class time for working through problems, engaging in advanced concepts and collaborative learning. All aspects of instruction are re-shaped to maximise learning time in class.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
-Vandana Shiva
prayer of the day
Lord, this is the day that you have made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it, even as we know it will bring more than we can do. Amen.
Our Superstar winners for this week – great job everyone!
Hi everyone
I am putting the SAN Script out today (Saturday) in case I have missed any activities that are scheduled for Education Week. I will put out the community blog tomorrow followed by a Touchcast to get the parents ready for the first day of Education Week. Please let me know if I have missed something (easy to do!!)
Coffee and snacks for parents in the yard before and during school – every day this week
Get a family portrait! All week we are taking pictures of parents with their kids. Each photo will be made into a 5 x 7 portrait for the family. We hope then to make a great composite of the St. Anthony Community by the end of the week!
We start our week with mass at St. Anthony Church at 9:00 AM Monday morning.
Bev Wilcox (public Health Nurse) will be visiting Gr. 1 2nd block – Active Transportation safety.
Coffee and snacks for parents in the yard before and during school – every day this week
Get a family portrait! All week we are taking pictures of parents with their kids. Each photo will be made into a 5 x 7 portrait for the family. We hope then to make a great composite of the St. Anthony Community by the end of the week!
Open House for the Primary Language Class – morning
Public Library visits to begin – 45 Rosemount grade 1 today at 9:00 AM – parents welcome to join us!
Volunteer/Community Partner Appreciation tea – this is a great opportunity to meet the community partners we work with. Assembly 4th block – tea and refreshments in the staffroom after the assembly.
Table Tennis Starts for a new session today!
Wednesday, May 6
Coffee and snacks for parents in the yard before and during school – every day this week
Get a family portrait! All week we are taking pictures of parents with their kids. Each photo will be made into a 5 x 7 portrait for the family. We hope then to make a great composite of the St. Anthony Community by the end of the week!
Our Rosary group will be doing their class visits this week – this dedicated group comes in every month to teach our children about the Rosary. You are very welcome to come in and take part in one of their presentations on this day. Here is the schedule for visits:
1. First Block: Teresa Rupnik-Grade 1/2/3 (approx 30 mins)
-10 Students
-Self Portrait (Drawing with paper, pencils and colouring in with crayons and/or possibly water colours)
2. Meg Myers -Grade 1 (approx 30 mins)
-Self portrait or drawing the body proportions. Colouring in with crayons if time.
3. Second Block: Maria Manzoli-Grade 2/3 (60mins)
-Self Portrait Drawing with possible time to paint or colour it in. (Drawing with paper, pencils and if time, colouring in with crayons or coloured pencils)
4. Third Block : Debra Hubert-Grade 5/6 (60-75mins)
-Aboriginal Art
(Drawing with paper and pencils and either colouring in with oil pastels or acrylic paint, paint brushes, water cups and palettes. FYI: The oil pastels might be best here if you have them.
-Self Portrait with option to colour in here (Drawing with paper, pencils and colouring in with crayons and/or possibly water colours)
Thursday, May 7
Coffee and snacks for parents in the yard before and during school – every day this week
Get a family portrait! All week we are taking pictures of parents with their kids. Each photo will be made into a 5 x 7 portrait for the family. We hope then to make a great composite of the St. Anthony Community by the end of the week!
Chess tournament at Dr. FJ MacDonald Catholic School – come out and cheer on our great team!
lunchtime: Demonstration Maker Space for Parents – come and see how a makerspace works! Our grade 5/6 students will be your hosts
Young Rembrandts starts again!
Friday, May 8
Coffee and snacks for parents in the yard before and during school – every day this week
Get a family portrait! All week we are taking pictures of parents with their kids. Each photo will be made into a 5 x 7 portrait for the family. We hope then to make a great composite of the St. Anthony Community by the end of the week!
Story-telling day – visits by authors to our school
Little Horn Theatre St. Anthony’s *AGRI ARTIST STORY TELLER -JK/SK – two sessions in Kindergarten classes
Chris Nihemy, author, presenting on reading and writing to the primary and junior classes
9:00 am – Primaries – 60 students in learning commons
10:15 – 11:15 grade 4/5 in learning commons
12:30 – 1:30 grade 5/6 in learning commons
Whole school class photo to be taken from the roof of St. Anthony! Photo by Edge Imaging – 9:30 am
First Reconciliation will be Friday @ 6:00 p.m., First Eucharist Saturday @ 5:00 p.m. 33 Graphic Design Tools To Publish Visual Contentby TeachThought StaffDigital literacy is, in part, about digital publishing.Digital publishing is, in part, about the writing process–choosing an audience and purpose, drafting content, revising and editing that content, and then sharing it with the world.But digital publishing is also about the right tools for the right platform and the right device. Education is no different; digital publishers in your classroom need the right tools to do amazing things. The pathway from idea to socializing has been lubricated by incredible technology. In fact, that’s a key theme of progressive technology: It makes new things possible.
If you think this isn’t true, sit down to create a book cover with Microsoft Word instead of Adobe InDesign. Or a stunning video game with Scratch instead of Unity. Tools matter.
In an era of digital literacy and digital publishing comes a new genre–visual content. Memes. eCards. Blogs. Gifs. Inspirational quotes. From magazine layouts to pinterest fodder, “visuals” are a new genre gifted from the ease of digital publishing and sharing.
So this list of graphic resources from Kimberly Reynolds for visual content fits right in this context–for you as a teacher, or your students as creators.
Canva makes design simple for everyone. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so much more.
Browse premium design templates and stock graphics for logos, fonts, print design, web design, Photoshop, InDesign, Lightroom, icons, business cards, and more.
