Welcome

Welcome everyone to my blog!

I hope (and trust) everyone had a fantastic summer, but it's that time of year again...time to head back to school.

As you may (or may not) know, I'm the new Grade 6 teacher at River Oaks Public school. I'm really looking forward to working at River Oaks and can't wait for the year to get started.

Just to give you a heads up, most class activity/information will be updated on this blog. However, if I need to upload something for you to download (information sheet, assessments, projects), it will go to my class web page which is located HERE.

Perhaps the thing that I'm most excited about is that Ms. Philipson and I have designed a year long project that will see each of our students design and maintain their own blogs. Essentially, every two weeks, our students will be asked to make a post concerning different ideas. However, our obvious hope is that each student will fall in love with the idea of having a blog and make posts all the time and not just when assigned. Over at my web page (look above for the link), you can find a rubric which will be used to assess each blog at different intervals of the school year. This blog will make up a large portion of the IT mark on each student's report card.

Stay tuned for direct instructions on how to start up your own blog!