The SAN Script – Thursday April 14th

Tune in to Twitter @DiscoveryEd with the hashtag #EarthDay2016 from 1:00 – 1:30 PM ET for a live question and answer session with the experts.

Earth Day | April 22, 2016

(click to register your class) Expedition Earth Day: A Deep Dive into the World’s Coral Reefs (Now Available On Demand)

During this underwater expedition to study the biodiversity of the coral reefs of the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific Oceans, you will learn:

How shifting land masses impacted the number and types of organisms in these regions
Why releasing a pet lionfish into the ocean is now threatening the biodiversity in the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean
What scientists are studying with underwater robots
How you can take simple steps to preserve the oceans

Student Host

Aabriti Shrestha, Skyline HS, St. Vrain Valley Schools (CO)

Ocean First Education Experts

Graham Casden, founder
Dr. Caine Delacy, marine ecologist
Catherine Christopher, curriculum and outreach coordinator

What’s Happening on Earth Day?

Tune in to Twitter @DiscoveryEd with the hashtag #EarthDay2016 from 1:00 – 1:30 PM ET for a live question and answer session with the experts.

Classroom Activities

Check out these suggested lessons/activities to enhance your students’ experience:

St. Anthony Today

Paul away (AM)

Starr Gymnastics here all day

Recycle Day at St. Anthony Catholic School- PLEASE recycle today – all material to be left inside near the parking lot door

Papa Jack Popcorn

Orkidstra Today

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April 13

The SAN Script Wednesday, April 13

In just a few short days, we’ll be gathering together once again to share with you theSpring VirtCon. This bi-annual conference taking place on Saturday, April 16th provides educators the chance to learn from some outstanding presenters throughout the day. It is up to you whether you do it from your own home, or at one of the 35+ Viewing Parties being hosted across North America!

This year, the VirtCon is following in the footsteps of our Powerful Practices series of workshops, focusing on topics like formative assessment, student engagement, personalized learning, and building culturally responsive classrooms. We have 11 incredible presenters who will be sharing their knowledge and inspiration with you throughout the day.

As always, the event is 100% free, whether you attend from home or at any of our viewing parties! To participate, all you need to do is register here and then visit theSpring VirtCon homepage on Saturday morning at 9am ET. If you’re on the west coast, we know that’s a little early for you. That’s why we’re archiving the entire event in real time. Just like with a DVR’d program, you can hit pause, rewind, or even scroll back to the very beginning and begin the conference on your own schedule.

I’m incredibly excited about our three featured speakers. Cindy Moss, the Senior Director oF Global STEM Initiatives at Discovery Education will be discussing innovative ways to engage your students in STEM. Stephen Downes of the National Research Council in Canada will share his take on ‘Personal and Personalized Learning.’ We will close the day off with DEN STAR Rafranz Davis, the Executive Director of Professional and Digital Learning for Lufkin ISD, Texas, who will discuss ‘Media Diversity and Cultural Responsiveness.’

Visit the Spring VirtCon homepage to check out the entire schedule, find out if there’s a viewing party in your area, and to register to attend.

See you on Saturday at the #SpringVirtCon!

St. Anthony Today

Starr Gymnastics continues

Self-regulation group-Geraldine, Meghan Ivany

speech therapist-CCAC

Wastefree Wednesday Today

Orkidstra Today (Cambridge School)

Ottawa Edcamp this weekend

Day Schedule

8:30-9:00 Registration and networking

9:00-9:30 Introduction

9:30-10:30 1st Session

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:45 2nd Session

11:45-12:45 Lunch

12:45-1:45- 3rd Session

1:45-2:15 Wrap-up & Smackdown Sharing Session

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March 10

The SAN Script – Thursday, March 9

“Each time anyone comes into contact with us, they must become different and be better people because of having met us. We must radiate God’s love. We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and be loved. Love does not measure…it just gives.” Mother Teresa

A great video about Christie Lake Camp – we are hoping to send ten students there this summer

St. Anthony Today

Recycle Day at St. Anthony Catholic School- PLEASE recycle today – all material to be left inside near the parking lot door

Orkidstra Today

From the DEN Today

The DEN Blog Today

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March 5

The SAN Script – The week of March 7 – 11

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Maya Angelou

Finding Life – Elia Saikaly – a terrific TED Talk and someone who I hope we will be able to follow and invite to our school next year

St. Anthony This Week

Monday, March 7

Sabina in all week

Paul out (AM only)

Tuesday, March 8

Staff meeting in the morning – 7:30 – 8:15

Brad Moleski (SEA) in today

I will come to Sandra’s class Blocks 1 and 2 (perhaps we can do a research in a curriculum area using Google Slides or Docs? Just let me know the topic.) and Maria’s class in Block 3 (edit the Narrative Writing that was started last

Dorothy Stanyar, volunteer, in Mrs. Rupnik’s class PM only

Orkidstra today in learning commons

Wednesday, March 9

Grade 6 Grad Photo Retake with Teachers

Orkidstra today at Cambridge School

Thursday, March 10

Recycle Day at St. Anthony Catholic School- PLEASE recycle today – all material to be left inside near the parking lot door

Orkidstra today in learning commons

Friday, March 11

Pizza Day!

Waste Free Assembly – 2:00 PM

A great learning opportunity – I went last year, it was amazing!! Here is the link for more information and access to the application form.

Agenda and FAQs

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March 2

The SAN Script Wednesday, March 2

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Nelson Mandela

St. Anthony today

Paul away all day at CLL
Rosary schedule
10:30 to 11:15 JK & FDK Natalie Schlesak
12:15 to 12:40 Grades 2 Shannon Draper

12:45 to 1:05 Grade 1 Meg Myers
12:15-1:30 Grade 4/5 French: Sylvain Girard
1:45-2:15 Grade 3/4: Maria Manzoli
2:20 -3:00 Grade 5/6: Nora Colaiacovo /Denis Chartrand

Wastefree Wednesday

Read Across America Day – 1:00 PM

Orkidstra today at Cambridge

Link to PD Page

PD Survey – Teachers please complete this by the end of the day today – thanks to all those who have completed the survey

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February 28

The SAN Script The week of February 29 – March 4

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Register here for this great event

St. Anthony This Week

Monday, February 29

Sabina in all week

Chris Nihmey in for mental health workshop – Juniors

Paul out by 12:30 – meeting at University of Ottawa

OECTA Rescheduled Unit General Meeting @ 4:30 p.m. at the Hellenic Centre.

Tuesday, March 1

Speech Language Student from Dalhousie U to work with Mrs. Rupnik’s class

The Earth Rangers Assembly 2015-2016

10:15-11:15 – Earth Rangers Assembly
12:30-1:15 Class Program #1

Dorothy Stanyar, volunteer, in Mrs. Rupnik’s class PM only

Orkidstra today

Wednesday, March 2

Wastefree Wednesday

Read Across America – 1:00 PM

Rosary visit

10:30 to 11:15 JK & FDK Natalie Schlesak
12:15 to 12:40 Grades 2 Shannon Draper

12:45 to 1:05 Grade 1 Meg Myers
12:15-1:30 Grade 4/5 French: Sylvain Girard
1:45-2:15 Grade 3/4: Maria Manzoli
2:20 -3:00 Grade 5/6: Nora Colaiacovo /Denis Chartrand

Paul away all day – CLL

Orkidstra today at Cambridge

Thursday, March 3

Recycle Day at St. Anthony Catholic School- PLEASE recycle today – all material to be left inside near the parking lot door

grade 6 School Tours at Notre Dame

Orkidstra today

Meg and Stephanie DE in PM

Friday, March 4

Papa Jack Popcorn

Shepherds of Good Hope Presentation

St. Anthony Superstars
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February 25

The SAN Script – Thursday, February 25

St. Anthony Today

Recycle Day at St. Anthony Catholic School- PLEASE recycle today – all material to be left inside near the parking lot door

Orkidstra today

OECTA Unit General Meeting @ 4:30 p.m. at the Hellenic Centre.

Discovery Daily News

http://www.discoveryeducation.com//Kilimanjaro/index.cfm

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February 15

The SAN Script – Tuesday, February 16

Something that irritates you and won’t let you go. That’s the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.

James Baldwin

The basketball Free Throw Competition – three of our students have made it to the Regional finals! We need a driver to get the kids to the competition at St. Paul’s next weekend

St. Anthony This Week

Tuesday, February 16

IPRCs PLC – Teresa and Paul all day in the learning Commons – Kirsten in for Teresa

Starr Gymnastics here all day for 45-minutes sessions for each grade level

please see the schedule here

Meg, Shannon, Natalie, @ K-2 Math Inquiry Chris in for Meg, Tonia in for Natalie, Paolo in for Shannon – workshops cancelled if it is a snow day

Speech Language Student from Dalhousie U to work with Mrs. Rupnik’s class

Dr. Olmsted in for assessment

Observation of student in Primary Language Class- PM- Student Services

Orkidstra Today

Wednesday, February 17

Wastefree Wednesday Today

Orkidstra Today (Cambridge School)

CCAC speech therapist in

Thursday, February 18

Recycle Day at St. Anthony Catholic School- PLEASE recycle today – all material to be left inside near the parking lot door

Report Cards going home

Elementary SIPSAW (Collaborative) – Board Office (AM)

(Looking for three teachers who want to go – Code 90)

Orkidstra Today

Friday, February 19

Papa Jack Popcorn

Schoolyard design meeting at school – Paul, Andrew and community group – 1:30 PM

Social Science Techbook – parts are now in the Canada Streaming section of our Discovery material – how to access

Once logged in, simply click the search button with the keyword’s space blank. (this populates everything available within Discovery)
Click ‘Media Type’ on the left to expand the options
Click the ‘+” sign to the right of Interact
Interactive Map (13) and Investigation (42) are two areas where a number of new Social Studies content has been added
We also added approximately 1500 new videos, 500 images and around 90 reading passages for Social Studies

And finally…

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February 12

The SAN Script – Friday, February 12

RIGHT NOW

The key instruction is to stay in the present. Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

Pema Chodron

Published on Oct 31, 2012

If you’re a teenage speaker brought in to address a crowd of teachers on the subject of how you and your peers learn best . . . what are you going to say? “I — have no clue,” Ned Cephalus nervously says from behind the podium. “I’m just a very average teenage brain”—complete with backpack, zits, and a journal he keeps about school. Yet in this funny and fast-paced “NED talk,” Ned knocks out eight powerful conditions of learning that can change everything for students. Funding from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation made this animation possible. Learn more at www.wkcd.org.

St. Anthony Today

Paul in late – meeting at University of Ottawa

Pizza Day

April out Jennie Galbraith in

Link to series in Canada Streaming: https://google.discoveryeducation.ca/player/view/assetGuid/ce927551-5fb6-4b94-8c14-0082ee080c58

A BBC/Discovery Channel Co-Production. David Attenborough investigates the uncertain future of the earth’s polar regions. As global temperatures rise, the landscape, wildlife, and people of the Arctic and Antarctic bear the brunt of the changing climate. In the Arctic, polar bears struggle to find food as the sea ice on which they hunt forms later and melts earlier every year. Villagers in northern Alaska recall the days when they were able to walk out onto the frozen sea, but those days are now a distant memory. Scientists diligently examine the rate at which the Arctic ice is melting. In Antarctica, glaciers have clearly retreated in the last one hundred years, and ice-loving animals like Adélie penguins are being pushed aside by more temperate penguins. NOTE: This program contains content that portrays animals in their natural environment and may be disturbing or inappropriate for some viewers. Please preview before showing in class.

Grade(s) 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

A huge amount of material has been added to Canada Streaming from Discovery’s Social Science Techbook. Take a look look for recent material like this piece. You can assign these videos directly to your students recent material like this piece. You can assign these videos directly to your students

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November 24

The SAN Script – Tuesday, November 24

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

–Søren Kierkegaard

St. Anthony Today

Dorothy Stanyar, volunteer, in Mrs. Rupnik’s class PM only

Looking At Pictures Gr. 5/6, Gr. 2, Gr. 1

Table Tennis today in the gym

Orkidstra today in the Learning Commons

Live from the Farm Virtual Field Trip

Join us for The Science of Soil’s Live From the Farm virtual field trip broadcast live from Hinton Farms in Dover, FL. Intended for middle school students, this event will explore plant nutrition, periodic elements, and modern farming technology.
December 3 at 1pm ET

See more in the DEN Weekly Update

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