Hello Owen Families,
We have come to the end of May and have been online now for 2 1/2 months. Only one more month of school before our summer holidays.
With businesses beginning to open and schools preparing for entry to pick up items, students may ask what face coverings are and why do we need them. Here is a great site to help explain this.
Picking Up Student Items from School
Our elementary summer school program focus is to close the achievement and well-being gap and to continue student engagement into July. Programs for students in Grades 3 to 8 will be delivered from July 6 to 31, 2020 from 9am to 12pm. French programs will also be available for students currently in a French Immersion or Extended French Program. Remote synchronous learning will be offered. There is a possibility that learning may move from remote learning to in-class learning environments in accordance with the ongoing guidance of the Ministry of Education. Registration is online and is currently open to the public. More information is available at www.tdsb.on.ca/summer
If you have photos or displays that show what your family is doing for Italian Heritage Month or Portuguese-Speaking Heritage Month, we'd love for you to share them with Owen.
Please send any photos or videos and upload to: Heritage Month
Check out what our Owen students have been up to at home...
We have come to the end of May and have been online now for 2 1/2 months. Only one more month of school before our summer holidays.
With businesses beginning to open and schools preparing for entry to pick up items, students may ask what face coverings are and why do we need them. Here is a great site to help explain this.
Don't forget to check out TDSB's
Mental Health and Well-Being Resources During Covid-19 to help your child through this pandemic. Check out the TikTok Messages of Hope created by TDSB students.
Challenge to Owen students!
What messages of hope can you send to the Owen Community? Share with your teacher, class or Ms Rosenbloom so we can see it here in the Owen Online Bulletin.
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Picking Up Student Items from School
The Toronto Public Health has approved the following protocol for parents to be allowed to come into the school to pick up student items before the year ends. It is not mandatory to come to the school to pick up belongings and students or parents/guardians should only visit the school if absolutely necessary.
A schedule to sign up will be sent out later this week for parents to sign up to pick up items between June 8th and June 26th. There are very strict guidelines that everyone must follow in order to keep everyone safe and healthy:
- Please be patient.
- Anyone entering the school must do a self-assessment prior to coming to the school. Only those who have passed the self-assessment with no COVID-19 symptoms will be allowed access.
- Arrive on time.
- Enter only through designated doors.
- Each visit is limited to 15 minutes. If you have more than one child, you can pick up your other children's items during that time.
- Students and parents are strongly encouraged to bring and wear their own mask or face covering;
- Respect all physical distancing requirements, staying at least 6 feet away from others who do not live with you.
- Drop off any items, such as library books, at the entrance door (include your child’s name, teacher and list of items returned).
- Retrieve belongings from classroom/portable.
- Put any garbage in the bins provided.
- Anything that is not collected will be bagged, labelled and stored until schools reopen.
- Know that playgrounds are not open.
- Exit school building and property promptly.
Please see the complete Guidelines for Picking Up Students’ Belongings from School.
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Zumba and Cardio with Lupita! - Grade 4 and 5 this week
Thank you Grade 2 & 3s students for joining us for our Active Fitness Zumba Cardio class last week. It was so much fun to see everyone dance and get fit to great music and moves. We loved seeing you and your family get involved. Thank you Lupita for such a fun class! And thank you to Ms Ierullo and Ms Yu for monitoring the Google Meet for the session.
This week we will have Grade 4s and Grade 5s. An email will be send to each grade with the date, time and Google Meet link.
Grade 2 Classes
Grade 3 Classes
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Elementary Summer School
Our elementary summer school program focus is to close the achievement and well-being gap and to continue student engagement into July. Programs for students in Grades 3 to 8 will be delivered from July 6 to 31, 2020 from 9am to 12pm. French programs will also be available for students currently in a French Immersion or Extended French Program. Remote synchronous learning will be offered. There is a possibility that learning may move from remote learning to in-class learning environments in accordance with the ongoing guidance of the Ministry of Education. Registration is online and is currently open to the public. More information is available at www.tdsb.on.ca/summer
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Community Programs
Adult General Interest courses will be offered in July to continue to engage with existing learners, while increasing the presence and awareness of Learn4Life programs to new learners. Courses will be offered from July 6 to 31, 2020 through a synchronous online delivery model. Registration will be available through our website at www.learn4life.ca.
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Learn About TDSB Digital Tools – Sessions for Families
We are pleased to announce upcoming sessions for families on some of the digital tools available to students throughout the TDSB. Discovery Education and Knowledgehook will share tips on using these tools to enhance the remote learning experience.
On Tuesday, June 2, at 6:30pm Discovery Education will host an information session to explore Discovery Experience, STEM Connects and Math Techbook (Grades K-12). Please register for the Discovery Education session here.
On Wednesday June 3, at 11:00 am and Thursday, June 4 at 4:00 pm Knowledgehook will be hosting a session with tips on how to use key features within the digital resource (Grades 3 - 9). Please register for the Knowledgehook sessions here.
Please check our TDSB Mathematics for Families website for upcoming sessions.
If you have any questions please contact Centrally Assigned Principal, Wendy Terro.
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June is Italian Heritage Month and Portuguese-Speaking Heritage Month in TDSB
If you have photos or displays that show what your family is doing for Italian Heritage Month or Portuguese-Speaking Heritage Month, we'd love for you to share them with Owen.
Please send any photos or videos and upload to: Heritage Month
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Celebrating Owen!
- The Junior Carnival Episode which will include Owen's Lee (Gr 5). The Junior Carnival episode will now play:
Tuesday June 9th at 6pm on TVOkids.
The episode will also be available on TVOkids.com and the TVOkids YouTube player. You can stream live on the YouTube player. You can find updates at https://www.facebook.com/ItsMyPartyTVShow. We look forward to watching your episode Lee! Congratulations!
- Magic with Steve (Gr 2)
- Check out the Neighbourhood Walking Bingo HPE activity Zacharie (Gr 4) is doing with his brother Zyler (FISK)
- Recycle and Reuse - See how Oliver (FISK) made dominoes from a pizza box!
- Patrick (Gr 5) has made it as one of the Top 4 Junior Chefs, winning last weeks challenge for the 2nd week in a row. Congratulations Patrick! How far can he go?
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