Retired P/J teacher @Viscount_HWDSB | Passionate about innovation in teaching, visual learning, listening and trusting children | Lifelong Learner M.Ed.|
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Congratulations Alex on wining the 3rd best oral presentation at the MPS World Summit in Seattle representing the BZhangLab and Faculty of Engineering-McMaster University. We are so proud of you!
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it was fun to visually explore the concept of a mean (average) number in grade 3/4 @Viscount_HWDSB using connecting cubes. Thank you @jkershaw2 @HWDSBmath for suggesting this practical strategy (e.g. for 5, 2, 7, 4, 2, the mean is 4, as 5 + 2 + 7 + 4 + 2 = 20, 20/5 = 4). 👍🔢☑️
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Thinking about our classroom and school community. How can we make it stronger @Viscount_HWDSB
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On #RemembranceDay at @Viscount_HWDSB our Grade 3/4 class was focused on writing letters to brave soldiers in the past and present. Students had so many questions for the soldiers. They were very grateful and thankful for all their sacrifices. Lest We Forget 🙏
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Congratulations Alex 👏 Amazing! We are so proud of you! 👍
We're #MacEngProud to share that two of our graduate students have been named Vanier Scholars. 👏
🔥 Kholoud Abousalem
🔥 Alexander Sotra
Learn more about their research and academic journeys: bit.ly/MacEngVanier23
ALT Kholoud Abousalem portrait
ALT Alexander Sotra portrait
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Highlights of the 22/23 school year, Grade 3/4 GIRLS IN STEAM: This school year many of my female students took a leadership role in sharing their team-work building products, as well as their own individual science STEM projects. They inspired the others to get engaged in STEM.
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Highlights of the 22/23 school year: Grade 3/4 Procedural writing: We read The Dot and Duck! Rabbit! We started from the dot, draw pictures, then wrote step-by-step instructions. The readers followed a procedure to draw the similar picture. We compared results and wrote comments.
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Highlights of the 22/23 school year: Grade 3/4 STEM inquiry into process and problem solving of the stable structures. Amazing things happen when we plan how to bring the ideas and designs to life.
Which one doesn’t belong? We were busy finding the mistakes and sorting 2D shapes into correct families. ☑️👍
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Building mathematical thinking, making connections, problem solving @Viscount_HWDSB. How many smaller triangles with known areas can fit inside a larger triangle to calculate the total area of the larger triangle? Can you use the other shapes to find the area? I ❤️ Math Talk.
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Vocabulary Building Activity: Our Cloud of Words is getting bigger each week! 🗯 We are sharing words from the books we read that are special to us. We are learning how to truly understand these words through reading, writing, speaking and listening new words. ☑️
Taking time at the beginning of the day to develop positive relationships and to share their learning. Just look at how excited these students are about sharing their stories, math projects and reading. ☑️✍️📖🔢
One of those really great 👍 Guided Reading activity moments when everyone immersed in reading and writing. We were reviewing -at family: if you know -cat, you know -mat, if you know -mat, you know -sat! What a miracle! 💡🔮🔎✅
Congrats Alexander Sotra! That’s amazing. ☑️👏👏👏
It was a pleasure to attend the 11th annual BME symposium and be able to listen to both guest and student speakers across the field 🩻⛑🧠🫁. Amazing research to advance healthcare 👏🏻. It was a bonus having my poster from @BZhangLab on a colon epithelium model place 3rd overall😁
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I am retweeting my post from the beginning of this school year since many of my teacher friends @Viscount_HWDSB asked me about this Numeracy Brain Gym Activity! Learning possibilities are endless! Thank you @saravdwerf for inspiration.☑️
Grade 3 Math: Inquiry, Counting, Number Recognition, Comparing Numbers, Using Subtraction in every day life situations. Over 4 days we were putting on test different strategies. We’ve tracked down results, recorded and analyzed them. We had so much fun counting! ⬆️➡️🔁☑️
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Congratulations Alex and @BZhangLab! ☑️ 🔬
I am honoured to receive the @NSERC_CRSNG CGS-M for my organ-on-a-chip research with @BZhangLab. Thank you Dr. Boyang Zhang and my lab mates for all the support in receiving this scholarship. Some exciting iPSC research is to come!
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Happy International Women’s Day! 🎉Today I want to celebrate Molly who is 8 years old and is a fabulous hockey player! Molly is a role model for many girls her age, growing to be a strong young woman. Molly, congratulations on scoring a winning goal! We hope you keep on scoring!
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Language and Math integration: The students created bar-graphs to record their daily reading time at school. At the end of the month they added the reading minutes and then converted them to hours. It was a lot of work over a long period of time, but we learned so much! 📚📊➕🕐
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