Sunday, 24 May 2020

May 24, 2020

Hello Owen Families,

What beautiful weather we've had over the last couple of days!  We hope you had an opportunity to get some natural Vitamin D outside.  It's a great time to bike, walk or garden!

 We miss our students and love hearing from you!  Feel free to let us know what you are doing at home and share it with our Owen Community!
Ines (Kindergarten)
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Owen Refunds 

Thank you everyone for your support during the COVID-19 pandemic and keeping yourselves safe and healthy! Unfortunately we were not able to run the programs we normally do and will be refunding some of the activity funds.  Funds have been refunded through Cash Online.  Those who paid by cash or cheque will receive a cheque.
The refund for the activity fees is $22.  This includes the following
  • $2 remainder from lice checks
  • $5 remainder from performances
  • $5 wellness week
  • $10 scientist in school workshop
The pizza refund for:
  • 1 slice orders is $ 38.50 
  • 2 slices $ 45.50 
Others who did not pay the correct amount in September and did not pay the extra $18, refunds were $20.50 and $27.50.

For any questions about the refund please contact Elizabeth at erzsebet.balint@tdsb.on.ca .  
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Zumba and Cardio with Lupita! - Kindergarten 

Thank you Kindergarten students for joining Lupita, Ms Rosenbloom and Ms Yu for our Zumba dance class last Friday.  It was so much fun to see everyone dance and get fit to great music and moves.  We loved seeing you bring in your brothers, sisters and parents too!  Thank you Lupita for such a fun class!

We will be having sessions for each grade but not to worry!  There will be other opportunities for students to join again.  Here's a sneak peak.



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Remote Learning Tech Tips for Families

Please visit this section of the TDSB Remote Learning site for some helpful technology resources for families including:
  • Accessing Google Classroom - A Guide for Families
  • Accessing Brightspace - A Guide for Families
  • Student Password & Device Webchat for Families (8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Monday-Friday)
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Terry Fox Activities

Adding to the excitement of this special 40th Anniversary year, adidas Canada has harkened back to their storied history with Terry. After announcing a limited-edition nine-piece collection of Terry Fox merchandise, including the release of the original Orion running shoes, we are pleased to share that the first of the nine-piece collection sold out yesterday in 10 minutes. With a goal of raising $1 million, all net proceeds of the collection will go to The Terry Fox Foundation to support the best and brightest in Canadian cancer research.

In celebration of this initiative, we are excited to share with you an additional student colouring page to the selection of activities we sent you in April – Terry’s iconic adidas running shoe image. We hope this colouring page will be of help to you with your continued eLearning practices.

Click here to download the shoe colouring sheet.

Click here to download all of our new activity sheets.

Stay safe, stay hopeful!
The Terry Fox Foundation


Yearbook Cover Contest Winners

 We have just finished this year's Owen Yearbook cover contest, and the art that was done is great!  The staff had some tough choices to make in their votes, but we now have winners! The Back Cover winner is Jackson Mertens in grade 5, 


and the Front Cover winner is... (imagine a drum roll if you want) Olivia Dong in grade 5!


The grade 4 winners are: Umayma Ahmed & Olivia Zigelman



Grade 3 winner: Mako Kani

Grade 2 winner: Lucas Bishay

Grade 1 winner: Marina Sasakura


Kindergarten winner: Madeleine Lee



All cover submissions will be in the yearbook on specially dedicated pages so everyone can see the choices.

Thank you again to all of you who took the time to send in some wonderful and creative art!
Ms. Yu and Mr. Albrecht
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Poster Contest

Share the message of KINDNESS.  Elementary school-aged children are invited to create a POSTER or PHOTO or VIDEO that demonstrates "sharing the message of kindness".  For more information see the following website...
https://witsprogram.ca/poster-contest/?mc_cid=9ed1569d92&mc_eid=9d8ec754a8

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TEDEd Videos

These videos are great, full of information and easy for everyone to enjoy.  Take a look at this video.
                                                        https://safeYouTube.net/w/JvjH
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Celebrating Owen!  

Check out what our Owen students have been up to at home...

 Grade 4s
Fraction Animals James 

Fraction Animals Madisyn

Fractions of a Set Nana

Fractions of a Set Hannah

Treehouse Videos by Tara

Jayden's Treehouse


Zoey - Fractions of a Set
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g6OMV_7APXhOdNli5iWYbwhgbdLigszq2LHy7sLjWr4/edit?usp=sharing 


Murat - Fractions of a Set

Jake  - Fraction Animals

Selina 

Klea - Fraction Animal

Yaman's Treehouse

Advait's Treehouse

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Junior Chef Showdown tonight @9:00 pm on the Food Channel





Patrick (Gr 5) will be on the show tonight, episode 6!  Tonight includes the Mom's.  So watch Patricia as she joins Patrick on the show.  Good luck Patrick and Patricia...we are all cheering for you!



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