Monday, April 6, 2020

April Update and Transition to Google Classroom

Teachers have returned to work from Spring Break. During the break, administrators were developing plans for continuing the school year with an online learning platform.

For the first week back, Monday April 6th to Thursday April 9th, teachers will be contacting students and guardians via phone call to check-in to see how families are coping and to retrieve information around access to technology. Lessons and tasks will NOT be assigned this week. For the time being, independent learning activities can be accessed here, from the CBE website. Students and guardians can also access resources from the Learn Alberta Online Reference Centre. Common grade assignments will be provided next week via Google Classroom.

This week, students will be added to Google Classrooms, through the same Google platform that students have been using all year (Google Docs, Slides, Drive, etc.). Starting next week, Google Classrooms will be the main point of contact for information and all things related to school-based learning. Therefore, this blog will no longer be updated, as all information will be accessed via Google Classroom. Your homeroom teacher will contact you over the course of the next two days. If you still have questions around Google Classroom or anything else moving forward, AFTER TUESDAY, please email your homeroom teacher with any questions you have.

This is a challenging time, however, we will all get through this together.

Thank you.

Jesse Duss - Humanities - jjduss@cbe.ab.ca
Richard Pak - Math/Science - rypak@cbe.ab.ca

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Suggestions for Learning from Home K-9

Children are naturally curious learners and there are opportunities at home to engage their learning. We have created a webpage that offers a variety of educational ideas to support literacy, numeracy and wellness at home for this week. The resources are meant as suggestions only. You may choose to use the links and activities as needed over the next few days as more long-term educational programming is considered.


Thank you,
 Kevin Godfrey
Principal | Ernest Morrow School
Calgary Board of Education | www.cbe.ab.ca
t | 403.777.7800

Monday, March 16, 2020

March Week 3 Update

The purpose of teacher blogs is to inform students and their families of day-to-day learning and activities throughout the school year.  We will continue to communicate learning opportunities and will provide links to online learning resources through these blogs. 

Important information related to all school decisions will continue to be emailed to parents/guardians and can also be found on the CBE website (www.cbe.ab.ca). 

Thank you.

Thursday, March 12, 2020

March Week 2 Update

Students continued reading working on their literacy circle assignments this past week. On Friday, they will be learning about economics for success from volunteers who are coming to us from Junior Achievement Southern Alberta. They will learn about common expenses in adulthood, affordability, and financial/lifestyle goal setting.

Next week, students will continue their literacy circles and will begin their social studies unit on immigration.

Sunday, March 8, 2020

March Week 1 Update

This past week students continued reading and working on their literacy circle assignments. Students should be finishing up their section 2 work and ready for section 3 by Tuesday. Please see the February week 3 post for access to all assignments.

Students began the next RTI cycles for Numeracy (Fractions) and Literacy (Essay Writing) on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. This will continue for the next few weeks, in preparation for the start of PAT season, which starts in May.

Next Friday, March 13th, students will participate in an Economics for Success seminar, run by volunteers from Southern Alberta Junior Achievement.

Thursday, February 27, 2020

February Week 4 Update

This week in humanities, students began their novel studies within literacy groups. Students were given a choice among select novels, based on their individual reading levels. Each book is broken up into sections. Students are expected to read and complete assignments for section 1 by the end of this week. Assignments for each section include: chapter questions, vocabulary, "Fakebook" character development posts, and either a summary or visual sketch of the section.  There is also a final group project which is to be completed once the group has finished reading their book and has completed all other assignments. Here is a link to all resources for each book: Literacy Circle Resources

Friday, February 21, 2020

February Week 3 Update

This past week in humanities, students finished their economic island proposals, poster maps, and presentations. Marks have been updated on Powerschool. Students in 9-5 finished the economics unit with a 20 question multiple choice test. We will mark the tests together on Monday. Students in 9-4 will do the test Monday and mark it on Tuesday. Next week, all students will begin their novel studies as part of a literacy circle: a small group of students who are reading the same book and working on the same assignments as each other. Some assignments will be individual based, whereas others will be group based. Resources for each book will be uploaded to the blog next week.