Welcome to another short week!  

Students will not be attending school this Thursday due to the Province-wide strike on Thursday, March 5. 

HOMEWORK:  Be on the look out for possible homework to be completed this week in either Math, Social Studies or Language.  There is no THRoW this week.



As my campers should have already shared with you, we have begun the season of Lent.  In keeping with our Catholic practise, we have focused on prayer, fasting (going without) and charity (works of love) in a Lenten calendar for the season of Lent.  As a camp, we promised to complete a task a day for the 40 days of Lent. Ask your child about our Lenten Calendar.  I will encourage all students to bring home their Religion duo tang so you can go over our goals each day.
        I will need your support on weekends, as I cannot remind them to honour their promises for those days.  I've done my best to make all of these tasks doable.  I've spoken with my campers on the importance of keeping our promises.  Some days will be more challenging than others (the days without electronics).  The goal is to persevere even when it is difficult, so that we may on level understand the struggle that Jesus endured in his time.

MATH:  We are well on our way with our Multiplication Links!  What's that?  You don't know what these are?  Well, ask your camper about this and more specificially, ask him/her  how many links they have hanging!  Each link is a timestable.  Students go at their own pace to learn the x0, x1, x2 x5, x10, x3, x4, x6, x7, x8, x9, x11 and x12!  Lianna Li leads the way with 7 links!  Way to go, Lianna!

Language Quiz:  Each week, our quizzes will reflect prior learning.  So, if our focus is adjectives, it may include past learning such as plurals, nous, pronouns and editing.  This week, we continue to work on adjectives and will introduce verbs.

SOCIAL STUDIES:  We are currently in a unit on the Land Regions in Ontario;
Here is the key learning for this unit:

• 3 identify the major land form regions in Ontario (e.g., the Canadian Shield, the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Hudson Bay Lowlands), and describe the major characteristics that make each distinct
• describe some major connections between features of the natural environment and the type of employment that is available in a region, with reference to two or more municipal regions in Ontario
•  describe some major connections between features of the natural environment of a region and the type of land use and/or the type of community that is established in that region
• evaluate evidence and draw conclusions about some of the short- and long-term effects on the environment of different types of land use in municipal regions of Ontario and about key measures to reduce the negative impact of that use
• 4 identify and describe the main types of employment that are available in two or more municipal regions in Ontario
• demonstrate an understanding that Ontario is divided into different municipal or regional entities (e.g., cities, towns, townships, villages, counties, reserves) and that local governments within these entities provide specific services and regulate development according to local needs 
• demonstrate an understanding that political maps, both print and digital, use different typographical styles to indicate different types of entities (e.g., bold face capitals for a country [CANADA], capitals for a province [ONTARIO], and lower case for a city [Sudbury] 

Well, that's enough to take in on Sunday evening!  See you all tomorrow, campers!

Counsellor Wilson

SECRET QUESTION:  Our desks are arranged  ...
A.   In equal rows
B.   In a circle
C.   In a Horseshoe