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             Brain Pop - All about nouns A fun video about nouns, and how they are used for things, animals, people, and places. The idea of proper nouns is introduced.  Fiction vs. Non-Fiction A basic site demonstrating the difference between fiction and non-fiction. There are four stories to read or listen to, and then students can decide if they are fiction or non-fiction.  Abracadabra Reading Different interactive activities and stories that assist with learning to read. Each story has the option to choose to sound out difficult words so that kids can work on their vocabulary.  Seussville   Different stories, videos, characters, and games based off Dr. Seuss’s popular books. Includes material for educators and parents.  Literacy   Some fun games to help with learning to read and write. Featuring: phonics, rhyming, spelling, pronouns, punctuation, alphabetical order, joining words, and making sentences....

  Philosophy Our Learning Commons is an integral and essential component of the instructional program of our school. Our Learning Commons provides intellectual, physical access, information, literature and technical resources. By promoting the competency and independance of all learners in the use of information technology.  The program create learning environment which encourage lifelong learning in an ever changing society to meet the needs of all learners.     Focus With our strong focus on Language acquisition, our Learning Commons offers a solid school reading program based on those five pillars: Fun and engaging games Teachers, family and students engagement Drama productions  (include: shadow play, puppettery, Readers Theatre, podcast, video production, ...) Use of technology to enhance learning From classroom to public productions   Please, also refer to our calendar.   For more information, contact the administration or your child's t...

  Monthly Calendar September : genre:  historical or historical fiction Legends of the Fall: mimes about your books' character(s), character amplification.   October :  genre:  mystery (fiction) or historical Clue :  pick your characters, the settings, the time and the duration. Then dress up and play in a team set up where only one is guilty. Guess Who:  prepares your cards, give enough clues but not too much. Try to have your partners guess the settings, the time and the reasons related to the books you had read.   November-December : genre: fairy tale/Christmas Puppet show or shadow play: after reading some fairy tales, create your own story and       play using puppets and/or shadow play. Be creative! Virtual or real visit with a real a BOOK FAIR 1   January :   genre: biography  Wax Museum:  after studying a real historical character, depict him in her-his real set-up, as you had understood ...

    Here find some great resources for teaching digital literacy  http://www.teachhub.com/technology-classroom-what-digital-literacy :  this reliable website shows you all the steps you need to be able to teach, find and apply digital literacy in your classroom.   https://www.commonsense.org/education/:   Common Sense Media is already used in many school districts. They have ready-to-use material and many tutorials that will help you teach properly this subject.   https://digitalliteracy.gov/resource/email-scams:   the US Department of Commerce had put together a series of fun games dedicated to younger audiences.  They are secure and worth trying.     http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/help-teachers.php To help higher grades teachers to quickly find out if their students copied-paste their documents from outside sources.    https://www.diigo.com/list/abubnic/digital-citizenship_literacy-assessment:   DiiGo off...

  This body of articles discuss the impact and the ways to protect our children against the Electromagnetic Fields.   First, let have an intro to the terms.   Electromagnetic field From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia     Jump to navigation Jump to search For the British hacker convention, see Electromagnetic Field (festival) . Part of a series of articles about Electromagnetism Electricity Magnetism Electrostatics [hide] Conductor Coulomb's law Electric charge Electric dipole moment Electric field Electric flux  / potential energy Electrostatic discharge Gauss's law Induction Insulator Polarization density Static electricity Triboelectricity Magnetostatics [hide] Ampère's law Biot–Savart law Gauss's law for magnetism Magnetic field Magnetic flux Magnetic dipole moment Magnetization Magnetomotive force Electrodynamics [hide] Lorentz force law Electromagnetic induction Faraday's law Lenz's law Displacement current Magnetic potential Maxwell's equations Ele...

  Studies related to music and its implications to learnin   Try to read this article with this music   I am asked often by grade 7 to 10 students if they can study or work with their headset, listening to music. My answer is usually yes with a question: what music are you into?   Generally the students give me a somewhat vague answer and I go to the next duty. What I had been observing over the years is that most students can not really multitask. While they listen to their music I generally see their mouth singing along and their task taking forever to be accomplished. So, one day I decided to take charge of the music: I put Christmas Kenny G "songs" in the classroom speakers. To my surprise, my grade 7 worked well while at the same time singing along. The tasks were not very hard to accomplish so they did well. My little test revealed that it seems that soft, wordless music help most of my students to focus. Of course, one test in one set up is n...

  There are many ways to motivate and help your child to learn a second language.   Here, find a list of Apps and programs that can be, if not fun, useful to use.   1. Kahoot is easy to use and fun to play. You have fully play it in French and set the questions.  You can play Kahoot by yourself or in team.  Just answer the multiple choices questions and win!  Visit:  https://kahoot.com/b/ 2. News in Slow French (or other language)s , i s for an older audience who wants to listen to the News in French. The SLOW stands for the ability for the user to set the speed at which you want to listen to the podcast. There is a text to follow where definitions are underlined and when clicked on, appear on the screen. visit:  https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=news+in+slow+french     3.Classic games:  Pictionnary, Scrabble, Bogle, Crosswords (Mots-croises) and many other Games are  still very appropriate and fu...