Monday, March 16th, 2020

With the news that all Saskatchewan classrooms will be closing at the end of the day Thursday, we spent a lot of time today talking about what this means for the students in our classroom. I do not have all the details about how Saskatoon Catholic School Division is going to actualize the government announcement. We are meeting as a staff at the end of the day today to discuss it in further detail, in the context of St. Peter School.
Here's what I do know, and shared with our students today:
     -classes will be suspended indefinitely, at the end of the day on Thursday, March 19th.
     -the next few days are "wind down" days, where we are wrapping up current assignments and preparing for the hiatus, packing up school supplies, ect. However, if you are not feeling well, you should not come to school.
     -our teachers will work in the coming weeks to develop some form of continued education that can be accessed by our students, so that they can continue their studies at home. I don't know any details on what this will look like, or when it will become available.
     - I know there is a TON of media coverage, and because the situation is evolving so quickly, much of it conflicts with each-other. I will continue to update this blog regularly with any updates that I have until the end of June.

During this wind-down week, we are still finishing up some important tasks, which I will mark and factor into our upcoming Term 2 report cards. It is important that we get these tasks finished before our hiatus.

ELA - Our Tuck Everlasting group project will not be able to be completed before our hiatus, so don't worry about these. However, the Individual Written Task is still due on Thursday, and will now make up a significant portion of our Term 2 ELA marks. We will get time tomorrow and Wednesday to work on it. Be sure to have it completed for Thursday.

Math - We will continue to work through our Math curriculum this week, and will pick up wherever we leave off, as soon as the online learning becomes available. Complete our textbook assignment for tomorrow: Pg 140-141, Qs 1, 2, 6, 8 (9,10)

Spelling - We wrote our Week 15 quiz today.