Before and after Cabin Fever.

We languish the days we could travel together, today we talked about how we cope with the quarantine and physical distancing. We read about Cabin Fever and some interesting recommendations now that we spent more time inhouse with family and compete for some of the spaces.  

Everyone chooses a photo of a moment worth remembering, mine is at the start of the page.

 

Can't wait to meet my students back in person and devour the special cookie recipe they included in their entrepreneurial project. Four types using healthy ingredients of their choice.

On a continué a practiquer et chanter les jours de la semaine et les saisons. Aussi, on a visité à travers une vidéo de l'interieur des maisons.

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Space Adventure

A prototype of SpaceX's next-generation Starship vehicle has successfully flown to an altitude of 150m (500ft). The final Starship vehicle will feature six Raptors, standing 50m (165ft) tall. It could carry 100 people on a single flight. - BBC News, August 5th, 2020.

Today my students presented their research and a virtual visit to the Space Shuttle exhibition at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. 

They had so much fun working together with their teammates, everyone participated in creating the team's content. They managed their own schedule to meet the deadline, coordinated their videoconferences, agreed on each one contribution, had the meetings, and were able to set in motion their learning during these last weeks by collaborating from home and practicing on their own using Google Drive, Slides, and Meet. This is a pick of their work.   

Today's reflection had us talking about ethics after watching a video on the human genome and the answer an MIT researcher gave to the teenager question. Can a Unicorn be genetically produced? I was happy that some of my students think, first to ask ourselves, WHY or to what purpose we will want to do such thing and one of them said, his question will be, "Can limbs be grown back to someone who lost them?". >>>      

Aujourd'hui on a pactiquer les adjectif possesifs et on a regardé qu'est-ce qu'on mange a la cantine du collége. 

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Droplets

This is me, so we can't forget the good old days!!!  What are you doing?

"If you want something that's guaranteed to have droplets, it's your phone. The smooth surface is ideal for spreading the virus" -Washington Post.

This means that asking a stranger to take our photo or him fulfilling the favor most probably violates the current health guidance in regards to COVID.

Wash your hands and sanitize your screens 📳, and try to spend more time caring for others was today's reflection.

La musique a été notre thème aujourd'hui et on a practiqué le conjugaison du verbe aimer. Si vous voulait connaître les connotations dans la langue français, regardez le video. >>>

Girls in class have a different perception of creativity and enjoy crafting their class journals with flowers, different markers, and ribbons, it's nice when they share their personality and put their energy at work.   

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Splash down

"A Michigan library had to ask patrons to stop microwaving books to kill the coronavirus after noticing returned books with scorched pages." - CNN.

The positive side is people are reading, other angles are being excessively cautious or an ailment of health illiteracy? 

COVID, being a new disease, we need to ask the right questions and analyze the relative risks of our actions.

>>> At the Online Camp fourth week, after our warm-up, we extended our art reflection to Graffiti works. My students considered the beauty and inspiration they provoke us. A big concern for them is the places used. For example,  monuments, sculptures and similar should be spared. Public spaces can be provided by the city to allow this social expression. >>>

Aujourd'hui, c'était le tour pour parler d'argent et ce que on peut faire après le collège. >>>

Today's reading captivated us, our heroes will test the Whisperer machine.

We are starting a new project, in tune with the SpaceX splashdown, my students will research its predecessor, the Space Shuttle that used to come back to a landing strip, and will build a presentation for their own Space Adventure using Google Slides.

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End of Week 3

Today's reflection revolved on a cause that is worth volunteering time to. Day to day or exception situations, some ideas came up, community work but also natural disaster relief. We all agreed that every day we can be kind and make ourselves helpful like in the video we watched about Mr. Indifferent. >>>    

Something recent and my young students remember is people's solidarity after the 2017 earthquake and probably in future years, they will talk about how they lived and survived the current situation where the optimist projections place recovery by 2022 while others say 2025.  >>>    

Aujourd'hui on a parlé sur le vacances, le verbe FAIRE et des exercices sur Google Jamboard, vêtements et notre pay de residence. >>>

We recapitulated on our reading, every student presented their summary on a chapter so we all are up to date and have a good comprehension of the plot. We carried on page 259 for 15 minutes, like previous days, a unanimous voice asked for fifteen more, getting us to page 311, thanks to the help of Audible 👂😃😃😃. We still have to find what Mr. Curtain is going to do with the Whisperer machine.

We wondered about the turbines described by Mr. Curtain, he says that like the Dutch managed to master the sea, he has a similar accomplishment and can extract energy from the tide and waves.

Online Summer Camp >>>

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One Small Step.

Perseverance day, the first days of the Online Summer Camp we talked about what my students wished to be when they grow up. Being an astronaut came out, the Hope Mission to Mars was news those days.

So for today, we watched a nice video related to having a life plan. We can trip once, twice, or on many more obstacles. Having a clear starting vision and teaming with our closest or those who share a similar target can be the difference for hitting or not the summit. 

Here is a sample of the images used by my students to make their point.

Perseverance

After our Pop Art project, we played a little at the TATE kids. They have extraordinary quizzes for discovering art. This ART JOKE CHALLENGE is our preferred one so far, tomorrow we will try others.  

Tomorrow we will start building a structured presentation about a Space Adventure. A little research, use of a presentation template, and spiced with a pinch of teamwork.

  

Aujourd'hui on a écrit sur le cahier et on a parlé sur les routes pour aller au Collége. On a vu aussi:

Le tableau de Madame Maricarmen

We are doing great with our reading, getting closer to discover what is Mr. Benedict's twin brother up to.

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The Boomerang of Digital ...

Today we reflected on each other's footprint on the web, started with the post title "We know what you did" to make a point that anything we have shared will come back to us.

And it can come with the force of a Boomerang. Words, data, images, or voice recordings can evolve for good or bad to oblivion, a trend, or become viral at different points in time. Even years later as it happened to Canada's Prime Minister last September. 

-A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. 

Sir Winston Churchill

A great GIF that I very much liked, one of my students used it to accentuate his written post. 

We are almost there with the Pop Art project. We finished the picture but encounter some challenges with the Google Classroom turn in and Google Education integration.

En cours de français, on a commencé avec "Qu'est-ce ls amitié".

Same great pace with our reading, we are on page 220 on the 5th day. We reviewed the third book trailer and tomorrow we will compare it with the other two.

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