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Taking a Stand against Bullying!
Students at BDES joined people around the world in wearing a pink shirt to recognize International Day of Pink! It is a day where communities can unite in celebrating diversity and raising awareness...
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Apple Store visit rescheduled
Our trip to the Apple Store has been rescheduled to May 23 to allow many of our students to attend the Badminton Tournament that conflicted with our original date.
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Extra Help is Available
Every once in a while we need some extra help in various subjects and parents need to be aware that in April I began an Extra Help time during the outdoor recess time in the morning. A few students...
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Watching a Hamilton Peregrine Falcon Nest
We are starting to follow the progress of a Peregrine Falcon family as they begin life together near the top of the Sheraton Hotel in Hamilton. Surge and Madame X started the nest a month ago and...
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Personal Learning Day
On May 2, students enjoyed a day of investigating their passions. This was our May Personal Learning Day, where they were to chose something they want to learn about and get to spend the day studying...
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Saying goodbye to our student teachers.
In April we said goodbye to our student teachers. Ms. Mylrae has been with us since October and Ms. Herald joined us in January. We thank them for helping us over the year and wish them all the best...
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A music lesson at the Apple Store!
What a great day we had creating music at the Conestoga Apple store! As we arrived at the store entrance we were greeted by a standing ovation from the twenty plus employees of the store; wow what a...
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NED delivers powerful message!
NED the YoYo guy delivered a strong motivational message to us this week while dazzling us with his Yo-Yo tricks. The acronym NED stands for Never give up, Encourage others and Do your best. The...
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Awesome Year-end trip
From June 19-21 we enjoyed a tremendous experience at a Leadership Camp run at Brock University. Our students participated with two other groups from Deep River and the Owen Sound area. So much could...
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Thanks for the Great Year!
Thanks for the great year! I’ve learned lots from each of my students and I appreciate the effort they put into this year. We’ve explored many concepts and discovered new discoveries that will stay...
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Looking forward to September 3!
Classroom from the door. Classroom view from back corner. As the end of August approaches its only a matter of days until we’ll begin our wonderful adventure of learning in the community of our grade 6...
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First Day!!!!!
Community Circle Time It’s here; the first day of school! We all gathered together in a Community circle and were able to introduce ourselves and learn about the exciting year ahead. One of the biggest...
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Growing as a Community
Interviewing a new friend to introduce Our practise of building our Tribes sprung into full gear on Day 2 as we interviewed new friends and introduced them to the rest of the class. In Math we did an...
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Divisibility Rules
Divisibility Rules Memorizing these Divisibility Rules and knowing how they work will pay off in hours saved later in the year. I don’t ask you to memorize much all year but I would strongly suggest...
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Sumdog Math Contest
Way to go class! As of 7pm tonight we are in 3rd place out of the 49 schools in Canada that have signed up for the Canadian Sumdog Math Contest. The contest ends tomorrow so keep at it because the top...
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Getting to know a northern neighbour.
Our questioning team looks over our list of prepared questions to decide what to ask next. Can we figure out where another class is located by asking 10 Yes/No answer questions? That is the mission set...
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Boston Bound in 2015
On October 20 Mr. McCleary competed in the Detroit Marathon with the goal of qualifying for the elite Boston Marathon. Mission accomplished! Mr. McCleary beat the required time by more then 6 minutes...
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A visit from the Paris Leadership Team
This week the Grade 12 Leadership Training Team from Paris District High School spent the morning with our grade 6 students to share with us many cooperative activities. Our students had a great...
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We ARE the CHAMPIONS!!!!!
After coming so close in September we have risen to the top of the Canadian National Sumdog Math Contest for October. With the help of Mr. Zondag’s class we finished first out of 67 schools from all...
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