Emma King Elementary School

April 2012 | Math Links for TCLP |

Teach Kids News: A site by a Journalist and teachers who rewrite current events for students to discuss with parents and teachers. Click on it daily!

Ongoing Fundraiser: QSP--Order your magazines online. Click here and use the code 9072. Magazines subscriptions help out our school year round.

If you are working on the Biography Unit, click here!

If you know of any children who are eligible for Junior Kindergarten in Sept. 2012, please call for information to register.

Animal letter and Keyboard recognition

SCDSB/Kinark After-School Workshop Sessions for Parents & Educators

The Simcoe County District School Board and Kinark Child & Family Services is offering eight after-school workshops during the 2011-2012 school year for parents and educators of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Please click here to view the poster which lists the workshops. For more information or to register, please contact Hailey McLean, Central Program Consultant in Special Education at hmclean@scdsb.on.ca.

Math links-Gr.4-8| Math KDG-Gr3 Links | Math Teaching Focus |

Literacy TCLP: Boys' Literacy for TCLP #2

Visit Tumblebooks.com (Choose home from the menu.) (login: scdsb password: books)
Visit Tumblereaders (login: scdsb, password is login)
Bitstrips (Teachers-Free login for SCDSB teachers) Students should get their password from their teacher.

Learn more about the history of Black Canadians
Eat Well to Excel food supplement program: Please remind your children that the lunch you pack them should be eaten first. Children are welcome to eat from the basket if they are still hungry.
Please consider signing up to help with hot lunches and the Kiss & Ride program during the school year.
Behaviour Expectations and Character Education
It's My Life |Stop Bullying Kids |Stop LGBT Bullying| Cyberbullying |
Who is Emma King? Learn about Hondo Varep, our generous artist who painted the life of Emma King. These murals hang in our library, and represent a history of Emma King and the city of Barrie. Enjoy the tribute to Hondo Varep, who passed away Sept. 26th, 2010. We remember him fondly.

Added on Jan. 6, 2011

Internet Safety

Presentation about Facebook Safety by Chris Vollum. Please check Privacy Settings on your account. Do you know who your child's Facebook Friends are?

Updated, Oct. 2011

Green Thinking at Emma King

Pack it in--Pack it out! Our students are learning that taking responsibility for our Earth begins with each of us. We have more access to recycling and composting at home, so students are taking their waste products from lunch to sort into the appropriate bins. We thank you for sending reusable containers for lunch products. You can see what your child likes, and is actually eating rather than throwing out. Click here for curriculum links and for waste free lunches and for SCDSB recycling poster. Thinking green is demonstrating respect for our planet!

Sept. 2012

Literacy for All

As our world becomes more open to a variety of information technology, it is very important to teach our children to think and to be critical about what we read, view, hear and discuss. Click here for Critical Thinking. There are many Links to support your child.

What is the author's purpose in this book/article/report? Whose point of view is missing? We are teaching students to detect bias and stereotyping. See curriculum expectations and links to Media Literacy where it is critical to learn how to protect ourselves from scams and false advertising.

Our focus for critical thinking is to teach Inferring, synthesis of information and identifying point of view. What is the author's purpose in this book/article/report? Whose point of view is missing? We are teaching students to detect bias and stereotyping. See curriculum expectations and links to Media Literacy where it is critical to learn how to protect ourselves from scams and false advertising.

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