White Elephant Sale

White Elephant Sale!

Friday, Dec 14

The Grade 6 students are holding St Emily's 4th annual White Elephant Sale to raise money for their year end trip.

We are asking the community to donate gently used items (books, toys, stuffed animals, CD's, movies, puzzles, games, Christmas knickknacks, new jewellery, crafts and household items).

Items will be marked between 25 cents and $3. 

Destiny Quest

Today at the library, we learned about Destiny Quest, an online search engine through our Ottawa Catholic School Board library. Our librarian explained how you can search and reserve books from our library.

Here is the link:
https://library.ocsb.ca

Top 8 Apps for Geometry

We have started our unit on Geometry.

If you have an iPad, here are some great apps I discovered :)

http://www.avatargeneration.com/2012/11/top-8-apps-for-geometry/

Great review about symmetry: http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/symmetry-line-plane-shapes.html

Bullying - Le taxage et l'indimidation

It is Bully-Awareness week at St Emily!

There is a school-wide poster/video contest for students 

and there will be bully-prevention presentations.

First block today we "stopped-and-talked" about bullying. We watched some videos and discussed afterwards. We will continue to watch a video a day this week from  Learn360. I gave students their passwords (check in your "les devoirs" duo tang).

Jour de souvenir

For Remembrance Day, I am sharing with you photos from my summer trip to Normandy.

War of 1812

By National Film Board of Canada – Office national du film du Canada

An Interactive Graphic Novel for the iPad

Bring history to life with The Loxleys and the War of 1812, an immersive interactive graphic novel that follows a fictional family from Upper Canada torn apart by the conflict with the US some 200 years ago.

Based on the book from Renegade Arts Entertainment and re-imagined for the iPad by the National Film Board of Canada, this immersive interactive graphic novel brings history to life. 

Download free app from iTunes



Article from Canadian Heritage:

Harper Government Launches iPhone / iPad App for the 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812