An EXCITING Announcement!

Happy Monday families!

Although most of our morning was spent saying "cheese!" in the gym, we did manage to squeeze in some time for a very important visit from Mme Buckwold, who stopped by to share some very exciting news!

Here is the text from the letter that Mme Careen sent home with us today:

April 10, 2017

Dear families,

I am very excited to announce that Room 208 (that’s us!) will be participating in an upcoming reading and writing residency here at Ness Middle School. The residency will take place Tuesday, April 25 – Friday, April 28, 2017. We will have the opportunity to work with Ms. Sandy Figueroa, a sought-after educator in the areas of reading and writing.

Ms. Sandy will be working with our class every morning in Mathématiques. Together, we will explore the elements of technical writing as they apply to our mathematical reasoning in problem solving. Our goal is to publish our writing on our classroom blog as well as create a problem-solving manual that will be shared both here in our school library as well as with Ms. Sandy’s students at her school in Tucson, Arizona.

As we work with Ms. Sandy, a group of teachers and administrators will also be observing our learning. The purpose of this residency is not only to enhance our (Room 208’s) learning, but also to support all students and teachers in becoming more effective readers and writers across all content areas.

Attached to this letter, you will find two copies of the Student Permission Request Letter. As explained in the letter itself, one copy is to be returned to me and the other is for you to keep. Please fill in the letter and return one copy to the school (me) as soon as possible. 

We are very fortunate to have this opportunity to work with Ms. Sandy! It will truly be an incredible week of learning for all involved!

Most sincerely,

Mme A. Careen

Participating in this upcoming residency will certainly be a lot of work, but will provide us with such an amazing opportunity to grow incredibly in our mathematical reasoning and our technical writing. In the coming weeks, in addition to working with Mme Careen, we will also have the chance to collaborate with Mme Champagne, Ms. Miller and Ms. Toth (one of our school division's numeracy coordinators) as we best prepare ourselves for Ms. Sandy's visit. We will be posting many updates of our "front-loading" (a fancy word for all of the learning we will be doing before Ms. Sandy's arrival) to our blog, so be sure to check back often!

What a great way to kick off our week!
We can't wait to get started! :)