Colorized by Jordan Lloyd/Dynamic Chrome In this amazing colorized photo by Jordan Lloyd of Dynamic Chrome, we see London’s iconic Tower Bridge under construction in 1889. On Medium, Jordan adds: Tower Bridge was begun in 1881 and opened in 1894, to designs by Sir Horace Jones. It was designed so that the central section could be raised to allow the passage of ships to and from the busy wharves of London.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
St. Anthony Today
FIRST School-wide Waste Audit for 2016-2017
Y Kids Academy – 8:30 Grade 6
Notre Dame visit to school for grade 6 – 1:45 pm
Goodlife Gymnastics – Grade 3 2:00 PM
UGM at Hellenic Center for all OECTA members Starts at 4:30 pm
PD Activity for today – try to build a Board in Discovery – a great way for students to collect materials they are working on. If you make one, please send it to me. Thanks Paul
“Dewey Defeats Truman” read the large font headline on the front page of The Chicago Daily Tribune for the issue published the night of the 1948 presidential election. The headline was wrong: Harry Truman HAD won.
The paper went to press before the final votes were counted. Truman, on a whistle-stop train tour, famously held up the erroneous headline, with a big smile on his face.
That famous incident was not fake news. But today, media consumers are being exposed to deliberately manipulated headlines in the news – via email and social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Even traditional “legitimate” media have gotten into the act.
GOP nominee Donald Trump was fond of repeating his plan to deport illegal immigrants, and the Boston Globe newspaper (a decidedly anti-Trump paper) decided to show readers what a future Trump presidency might mean. It created this fake headline along with other fake stories. This is what readers were exposed to:
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has a bunch of great online exhibits for children and adults. A couple of years ago I featured the America by Air online exhibit. American by Air is a series of thirteen online activities that take students through the history of commercial aviation in the United States. After learning about the history of aviation let your students try their hands at designing their own airplanes on the How Things Fly exhibit.
How Things Fly features an interactive module in which students design their own airplanes. The activity starts with a simple and slow airplane that students have to modify until it reaches a target speed and altitude. As students modify the wings, fuselage, and engines of their airplanes they are given instant feedback on the effects of those modifications. In some cases the feedback includes the airplane crashing and the students having to start over again.
Applications for Education
Working through How Things Fly could be part of a fun STEM lesson for elementary school and middle school students. The feedback that students receive on their airplane design modifications includes information on thrust, drag, lift, and weight.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
Game for first place against St. George – really exciting match!
A record of our learning from Friday – please feel free to add anything that is not captured here. Great day!
St. Anthony This Week
Monday, November 21
Paul in 10:30 (meeting)
Office Hours Rec Link Mondays 9:00 – 3:00PM
Nahima Mohamed, Family Coordinator OCH Foundation for Healthy Communities Office: (613) 422-1555 Mobile: (613) 857- 5677 Fax: (613) 422-4556 Email: recLINKcoordinator@OCHFoundation.ca
Monday, November 21st Starr Gymnastics schedule
9:00 to 10:00 – Group 1 (50 Kids)
Gr. ½ Myers (19 students)
Grades 1/2/3 Primary Language Class Teresa Rupnik (10 students)
29 Students
10:30 to 11:30- Group 2 (50 Kids)
Grade ⅔ Moga (17 students)
FDK2 class only (24 students)
Math Schedule: Sandra Naufel
Monday, November 21st (Block 1) Sandra Troccoli Gr. 4/5 Monday, November 21st (Block 2) Nora Colaiacovo Gr. 5/6 Monday, November 21st (Block 3) Stephanie Moga- Gr. 2/3 Monday, November 21st (Block 4) Geraldine Wallace-Resource
Tuesday, November 22
Goodlife – Ms Troccoli 12:50 – 1:50
Wednesday, November 23
Y Kids Academy – 8:30
Switch duties because of Y Kids program- Teresa AM recess and Nora PM recess
FIRST School-wide Waste Audit for 2016-2017
Notre Dame visit to school for grade 6 – 1:45
Goodlife Gymnastics – Grade 3 2:00 pm
UGM at Hellenic Center for all OECTA members Starts at 4:30 pm
Thursday, November 24
Dairy Presentations in the Learning Commons ALL DAY Schedule is below
Thursday, November 24, 2016 8:45-9:30 (29 students) PLC AM and Grade One/Two Class topic is “Dairy Farming”
10:05-10:50 (26 students) Grade 5/6 topic “Dairy Goodness: Making the Most of Milk”
Today, as the Church seeks to experience a profound missionary renewal, there is a kind of preaching which falls to each of us as a daily responsibility. It has to do with bringing the Gospel to the people we meet, whether they be our neighbours or complete strangers. This is the informal preaching which takes place in the middle of a conversation, something along the lines of what a missionary does when visiting a home. Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey.
I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.Mother Teresa
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal. Steve Maraboli
Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.Pope Francis
From the developers of the popular iPad app Shadow Puppet Edu comes a nice new app called Seesaw. Seesaw is a free iPad app through which students can create a portfolio to document the things they have learned. Students can add artifacts to their portfolios by taking pictures of their work (in the case of a worksheet or other physical item), by writing about what they’ve learned, or by shooting a short video to record something they have learned. Students can add voice comments to their pictures to clarify what their pictures document.
To get started with Seesaw create a free classroom account. Students join the classroom by scanning a QR code (you will have to print it or project it) that grants them access to your Seesaw classroom. As the teacher you can see and sort all of your students’ Seesaw submissions.
Seesaw allows parents to create accounts through which they can see the work of their children. As a teacher you can send notifications to parents when their children make a new Seesaw submission.
Seesaw – Students Build Digital Portfolios on Their iPads (and chromebooks-Paul M.)
II. Seesaw – presentation by Christopher Nixon 8:40 – 9:00 am
III. Innovative Learning Stance: What am I doing differently this year to help achieve the school priorities? What are my critical actions and what do I expect to see as a result of these actions? 9:00 – 11:00
responses from four teachers so far – all teachers have to respond to this survey so I can record your learning at the end of the day
IV. Leveraging Digital – choose one digital tool to work on – it can be seesaw, Edublogs (see below) or some aspect of Discovery PD section here or another tutorial from Atomic. Please add your choice to the survey (you are able to go in and edit your answers – you will need to do this by the end of the day) What learning can you record (based on your work today)here that we can add to our SIPSaw? This session can be completed at any time during the day before 3:00 pm. Staff can choose what they want to do for lunch in or outside the school.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
If you will be here for the Friday PD Day – please complete the form below – please note – we have a variety of ‘critical actions’ this year and you are not obliged to do math – you will notice there is an ‘other’ option if a group of you would like to work on an aspect of Deep Learning. Leveraging Digital through Discovery or Atomic (yes, we still have Atomic). Please complete this by Wednesday 3:00PM. If you will not be here but doing PD elsewhere please let me know by the end of the day Tuesday (today).
Thanks
Paul
St. Anthony Today
Tentative Meeting with St. Elizabeth staff for shared student- Alison Hicks, Theresa Patenaude, Paul McGuire, and Teresa Rupnik 8:30
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Digital Portfolios are so much more than a digital versions of a paper portfolio, a folder sent home at the end of the week, semester or year or an online version of someone’s writing journal. In addition, I am talking about Blogfolios, which are digital portfolios on a blogging platform. These blogfolios are:
not behind a password protected wall to encourage authentic feedback and a global audience
not only sharing the “best” work of someone, but the process of learning that it took to get to the “best” work in this moment in time
the platform to allow open discussion to have one’s work be critiqued, influenced, re-mixed and built upon by others
If I had to create a “pitch” for Blogfolios, I would say:
Blogfolios are the glue that can hold it all together!
Blogfolios are a pedagogical tool/platform for the teacher to facilitate learning and at at the same time can become in critical component for a heutagogical (self-directed/ self-motivated) process for the learner. Blogfolios are the glue that can hold all curricular content, goals and objectives as well as support school initiatives, observations, assessment and accountability requirements or personal passions, interest and projects together… you can insert other education related programs, theories, taxonomies, methods, etc. and we can find connections HOW blogfolios could help support it.
TED Resident Fawn Qiu designs fun, low-cost projects that use familiar materials like paper and fabric to introduce engineering to kids. In this quick, clever talk, she shares how nontraditional workshops like hers can change the perception of technology and inspire students to participate in creating it.
St. Anthony This Week
Monday, November 14
Office Hours Rec Link Mondays 9:00 – 3:00PM
Monday, November 14th
Starr Gymnastics schedule
9:00 to 10:00 – Group 1 (50 Kids)
Grades 1/2/3 Primary Language Class Teresa Rupnik (10 students)
Grade ½ Myers (19 students)
29 Students
10:30 to 11:30 – Group 2 (50 Kids)
Moga ⅔ (17 students)
FDK 1 class only (23 students)
Dr. Olmsted in
Math Mentor – 2nd session – 1:00pm -3:30 pm Derry Byrne Paul, Nora and Sandra away
Tuesday, November 15
Lunch Lady in Today!
Tentative Meeting with St. Elizabeth staff for shared student- Alison Hicks, Theresa Patenaude, Paul McGuire, and Teresa Rupnik – 8:30
Menchini: Remembering my grandfather, lost in the First World War
On Nov. 1, it will be 100 years since the death of my grandfather at the Battle of the Somme in France. As his grandson, I and many members of his family, felt a burning need as proud Canadians to honour his memory and that of his wife and children.
Alfredo (Alfred) Menchini was born in Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany, Italy in 1879 and immigrated to London, England, where he met and married Rosina (Rose) Ingolotti. They immigrated to Ottawa in 1906.
Alfred’s trade was a stonemason and sculptor, but he worked in the bush around Ottawa and in construction. He was one of the founders of St. Anthony church and his family back in Italy provided the marble for its altar.
When the First World War broke out, he enlisted in the 77th Canadian infantry battalion and trained at Rockliffe park. It was during this time he and other members of the 77th assisted Ottawa firefighters in fighting the fires of the Parliament buildings and the prime minister of the day, Robert Borden, thanked them for saving many valuable paintings and precious volumes from the library.
The 77th left for the British Isles in 1916; in France Alfred was transferred to the 38th, which had already tasted warfare. Alfred had been in the trenches for four months when he was killed by a German artillery shell with three of his comrades. He is buried in Adanac Military Cemetery in France.
The death notice in the Ottawa Citizen stated that he had two brothers serving in the Italian army and one was later killed. Rose had a brother in the British navy, another was a sergeant in the army and an uncle was with the British in German East Africa. Her father was a Crimean War veteran for the British. The notice also stated Rose had seven children; the youngest a baby of six weeks and the oldest 13 years.
Many families suffered as a result of the First World War and this family had their share. Rose lost the house at 631 Rochester St. due to the late payment of Alfred’s military pension; the two oldest children, Tony and Harry, were sent to work and Maude, Margaret, Eleanor and Joe were sent to an orphanage where they suffered mistreatment. To add to Rose’s misery, baby Alfred died in the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 and was buried in a pauper’s grave.
It would have been easy for the family to fall apart; but they pulled together in the Village and contributed to Ottawa and Canada as proud Canadians.
Rose assisted many Italians with translations at St. Anthony church
Tony supported the family as a contractor and was a member of the Knights of Columbus
Harry was a Golden Gloves champion, member of the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame, trained many in the Village and was a trainer for the original Ottawa Senators hockey club
Maude was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary in the Canadian Legion for 60 years that helped many veterans after the Second World War
Margaret ran a restaurant in the Glebe with her husband Joe
Eleanor was the first president of the St. Anthony Ladies Aid to help Second World War veterans and the needy
Joe served in the Governor General’s Foot Guards during the Second World War, his battalion liberated Normandy, France, Belgium and Holland; he was a member of the Ottawa Rough Riders for 40 years and the Chateau Laurier for 35 years
If you should enter St. Anthony church, look to the first glass window on your left: It depicts the sacrifices of our soldiers in both world wars. The soldier’s guardian angel is arrayed as a warrior of the Roman legion, holding in his arms the body of Alfred Menchini. The inscription below lists the names of 21 young men of the parish who gave their lives for their country in the Second World War.
From Alfred’s enlistment papers, it states he had a tattoo on his inner forearm of clasped hands that stated, “don’t forget me.”
Grandfather, we will never ever forget you.
Ron Menchini is Alfred and Rose’s grandson.
Girls’ Volleyball tournament – St. George School, Nov. 10th
St. Anthony Today
Pizza Day
British stretcher bearers recovering a wounded soldier from a captured German trench during the Battle of Thiepval Ridge, late September 1916, part of the Battle of the Somme. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Remembrance Day Ceremony – 10:30
The student matinee Slumberland (presented in English) is coming up soon and we are looking forward to welcoming your group at LA NOUVELLE SCÈNE on Friday, November 11th! The performance is 55 minutes long and starts at 12 :45 pm.
Swimming at Plant Bath grade 5/6 class
Goodlife Fitness M Chartrand’s class – 2:20
St. Anthony Superstars – end of day
CANADIAN FORCES IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR Description: Canadian artillerymen add an early seasonal message to a shell for their 60 pounder field gun on the Somme front. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
This is a portion of an excellent article from the Atlantic, I encourage you to take time to read the rest. The article goes into alternatives to punishing by taking away recess and the use of logical consequences. I have come to see that taking away recess as a regressive punishment that I would not support if challenged by a parent. We don’t take away prep time – why do we take away recess? While I will not tell you how to discipline your students, it is important for me to state that I do not support this practice.Something to consider in your teaching practice.
Three-quarters of principals say that taking away recess is part of their discipline plan. Why this is a bad idea—and what schools should do instead.
Kathryn Haake/AP Photo
When Kathy Lauer-Williams’s son was in elementary school in Allentown, Pennsylvania, he would often lose recess as a punishment for forgetting his homework or a signature on a form. Troubled by the teacher’s habit of taking away recess, Lauer-Williams wrote about it on her blog and spoke to other parents. She found that she was not the only parent questioning this practice. Despite her attempts to talk to the school, she says nothing has changed.
Taking away recess has become a common practice among teachers trying to rein in unruly students. A study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that 77 percent of school principals reported taking away recess as a punishment, while a 2006 study found 81.5 percent of schools allowed students to be excluded from recess. While teachers may think taking away recess is an effective way to punish students for bad behavior, recess plays an important role in children’s development. Research shows the value of recess: It gives kids a much-needed break from intense studying, teaches them social skills, encourages them to use their imagination, and allows them to exercise.
So why is this practice so prevalent? In her work mentoring teachers, Olga Jarrett, a professor in the College of Education at Georgia State University often hears teachers express frustration and a sense that they have few other options for controlling misbehavior in their classrooms. At one event where she discussed the importance of recess, a group of teachers from the same school asked, “What do we do? We make lunch silent, we keep them in at recess as punishment. What else do we do?” This feeling that teachers have few options for maintaining discipline in their classrooms is backed up by online discussion groups, such as pro-teacher, where educators debate approaches to classroom management.State and district-level policy can also guide a teacher’s decision to keep students in from recess. In documentation for its statewide implementation of a program called Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, a disciplinary framework adopted by many states, Michigan’s Department of Education lists taking away five minutes of recess time as a possible disciplinary option. Chris McEvoy, a behavior support consultant who co-authored the policy, explains that “It is essentially a brief time-out. It allows the student to reflect on their behavior and quickly get back on track. “ Withholding recess, notes McEvoy, “in a PBIS school would never be done in isolation from other positive (teaching and positive acknowledgments) classroom management strategies.” On the other hand, Steve Goodman, co-author of the policy and director of Michigan’s Integrated Behavior and Learning Support Initiative, describes taking away recess as “a process where the student may ‘owe’ time from recess” because of negative behavior during class time. The question remains, however, whether recess is the appropriate place for educators to be looking to make up that time.When it comes to instituting recess, state-level policies like those in Michigan matter. A study published in JAMA Pediatrics found that children are most likely to get recess if state laws require it or if districts have a policy encouraging it. The National Association of State Boards of Education lists states with policies encouraging or requiring recess, and slightly less than half have such policies in place. Whether or not these policies are enforced is a separate question, and in some cases the policies appear contradictory. For example, Michigan’s State Board of Education has also issued a Model Policy on Quality Physical Education and Physical Activity in Schools recommending that “physical activity, including recess, not be denied or used for disciplinary reasons, or to make up lessons or class work.” As of yet, this policy does not appear to be reflected in the state’s discipline guidelines, and it would be understandable if both educators and parents were confused about what is or is not acceptable. Nationally, recess policies reflect a patchwork of individual and state practices.When Recess Goes, What Else Do We Lose?An increasing number of organizations are speaking out against the practice of withholding recess. In its recent statement on the “crucial role of recess,” the American Academy of Pediatrics emphasizes that recess should not be taken away for disciplinary or punitive reasons. Likewise, the National Association for Sport and Physical Education outlines in a position statement that “students should not be denied recess so that they can complete class work or as a means of punishment.” Furthermore, most researchers advise against replacing recess with physical education classes: PE is a class, they argue, whereas recess is an opportunity for social interaction and creativity.
Recess has the added benefit of leading to a more effective learning environment in the classroom. Research has shown that taking away recess does not make classroom behavior any better, and, in fact, it might make things worse in the case of students who are misbehaving because of an excess of energy or boredom. In a study of fourth graders, Jarrett and her colleagues found that students were less fidgety and more on-task if they had recess. As Jarrett explains, “a lot of the kids deprived of recess are kids with high activity levels … so you make them sit it out and not be active? It doesn’t make sense as a useful punishment.” Likewise, as Jarrett’s study revealed, kids with ADHD are particularly likely to benefit from recess.
St. Anthony Today
Girls Volleyball Tournament – St. George
Theresa Patenaude Guest Reader for Mrs.Rupnik’s Class
Parent Teacher interviews – dinner will be ready by 5:00 PM
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