A weekly newsletter for OHS, built by the staff. Through this time of extended school closure, we want students, parents, staff, and community members to stay connected with our OHS Community.
We miss you and look forward to seeing you again.
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Welcome to the third edition of the OHS Learning Opportunities Newsletter. We developed this newsletter with our community in mind and hope you will find the activities within it engaging and educational. Below you will find recipes, workouts, art activities, and more. If you have content you wish to submit to our newsletter to support our community please contact
natalie.mombourquette@nbed.nb.ca
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Principal
Vice Principals (student's last name)
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Oromocto High School Student Access Plan
We are now at a stage where we can plan on students to have access to the building for a very brief period to gather personal belongings.
Only those students who have personal belongings to gather should be planning a visit to the school. At this time, we are unable to announce if there will be another access time in the future. Students and families are reminded of provincial guidelines about gatherings and that only families can travel together. Please refer to the Department of Health website for more information.
Please refer to the student access plan attached.
After reviewing the access to school plan please note the following:
- Prepare for your visit by noting the day you are allowed to come. The plan clearly identifies by student last names what days this is.
- Students will be registered at the entrance before proceeding inside the building and only after they have self answered the public health COVID-19 questions.
- Please bring your own bags with you to collect your belongings.
- Please bring any items on loan from teachers (novels, etc).
- Please return all textbooks that you may have at your home.
- Social distancing requirements need to be maintained at all times and students are asked, as much as possible, to wear masks if you have them available.
- Access inside the building is limited to 15 minutes maximum. Please plan ahead knowing that this is the only time you have.
- The main office is not open.
- Please be patient and line up, maintaining social distancing, outside against the gym wall.
- The only entrance will be the main office entrance and the only exit will be the student parking lot doors.
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Information from Guidance
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Guidance Counselors:
(student's last name)
Ms. Kelly Pryor (A- Go)
Ms. Trina Kokoski (Gr-N)
Mr. Gary Nason (O-Z)
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Kindness is defined as the act of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Random acts of kindness are both good for your mental and physical health. Click on the link below for more information and
The Kindness Challenge
provided by your Guidance Team.
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Potential Grads
Questions? Call:
1-800-667-5626
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Mental Health Resources for Students and Families
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1-800-668-6868
Text HELLO to 686868
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Click on “Helping Tree” and then click the region where you live
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Information from Resource
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If you have any specific questions about resource related needs, please do not hesitate to contact the appropriate resource team member listed
(student's last name)
Mr. Greg Keezer
(A-Bou)
Ms. Jenny Fawcett
(Bow-Des)
Mr. Dan Steeves
(Det-Kee)
Mrs. Kelly Breen
(Kef-Nic)
Mrs. Joy Belyea
(Nic-Sta)
Mrs. Lesley Carr
(Sta-Z)
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The New Brunswick Military Family Resource Centre (MFRC) is providing our military families with services available to support individuals and families during this time. Click on the document below for more information.
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Check out this "App Wheel"! It highlights a ton of different apps for students with a variety of learning disabilities in order to facilitate and support their learning. You may be familiar with some of these apps already, while others may be undiscovered to you. Although some of them are designed specifically to support individuals with reading and writing difficulties, they truly could be beneficial to any student! Click on the image to check out the "App Wheel".
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For students and families to gain support for normal stress and anxiety, personal concerns, and school or career development questions including post-secondary requests. Click on the "connect" image to submit your request.
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Valedictorian for the Graduating Class of 2020
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It is now time for OHS to select the Valedictorian for the Graduating Class of 2020! During this unprecedented time, we are examining ways to adapt our year end activities for graduation. This year we will select the Valedictorian using an online platform, Microsoft Teams.
As the Valedictorian, you must:
a) compose and deliver the valedictory address on behalf of the graduating students. At this time, we are not sure what form of delivery this will be;
b) represent the school community, and be willing to represent all interest groups and career aspirations of the graduating class.
The successful candidate will meet the following criteria:
- Have a Cumulative GPA of 85% for grade 11 and the first semester of your grade 12 year.
- Present online briefly to a panel to assess your public speaking ability. Presentation through Microsoft Teams.
- Have two teacher references.
- Have the approval of Administration.
- Agree to work with a teacher supervisor to prepare the valedictory address.
- Submit your valedictory address in advance for review.
For more information and to submit your application, please click on the link below.
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Your application must be submitted no later than 4:00 PM on Friday, May 8, 2020.
No late applications will be accepted.
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Updates from EECD and ASD-W
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Learning Opportunities from ASD-W and EECD
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The Department of Education and the Anglophone Districts are currently developing learning opportunities and resources for K-12. Below you will find resources to assist students and their families:
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Helping Students Stay Connected
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Txt:
Send a txt message to
1-506-325-8460, IT staff will respond and help you get access to your account, password, or electronic resources.
Teacher:
If you already have a means of communicating with your classroom teacher, just ask, they can initiate support on your behalf.
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Not only can students win prizes through the prize draws, but Chatterhigh
is also giving out $10,000 in bursaries for students, and $25,000 in cash prizes for schools!
Also new to Chatterhigh are COVID-19 and Mental Health Modules.
What do I need to do?
Watch the three short videos or read the document listed to help with creating an account, filling out an initial survey, and how to take your daily quiz (10 questions). If you already have an account setup, start completing your daily quizzes. Make sure you click the “Research” tab, this will take you to a website that has the answer to the questions and automatically gives you 50 points. For every 1000 points you can enter the prize draws.
Videos:
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Signing Up for an Account
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Filling in Your Initial Survey
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Round 2 of Competition-Let's Talk Careers: Canada's Most Informed School/Student runs from
April 20, 2020 to May 27, 2020
. Get online daily to earn points for yourself and your school.
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The last 90 yearbooks are available online on a first-come, first-served basis, so act fast! Click on the Josten's ad to order your yearbook today!
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This week's newsletter has over 30 Learning Opportunities! See the list of subjects to help you search through the great material!
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Art and Music
Gender, Media, and Culture
Individual Family Dynamics
Languages
Media Studies
Nutrition
Photography
Psychology
Science
Skilled Trades and Technology
Social Studies 9
Healthy Bodies; Healthy Minds
Activities and Challenges
It's a Great Time to Take Up Gardening
Supplementary Resources
Webinar for Families
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April 21 through May 29, 2020 - The New York City Ballet - Two ballets a week, along with access to online programming (podcasts episodes and livestreamed movement classes for all ages).
Click on the image to visit the New York City Ballet website for more details.
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Extension:
Take your drawing outside and build a temporary labyrinth. Use various materials you find in and around your home/garage, or in your yard, to create the lines of your labyrinth. Perhaps you have access to rope, spray paint, branches, and/or stones? Make it big enough so that a person could walk the paths. If you don’t wish to build it, how about drawing it on a paved driveway (or in a parking lot after business hours) using chalk. Or draw it on your basement/garage floor using tape or rope. For time lapse videos of labyrinths being built:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5--pGSEbPY
and
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Share:
Labyrinths were often used for meditation. Now, as we cope with the Coronavirus, people are in search of ways to
reduce stress and anxiety
. These two videos speak to the value of walking in a labyrinth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5pdyENzxzU
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWVpZswzk7I
. If your labyrinth is outside, perhaps friends/neighbors can benefit from the therapeutic practice of walking your artistic path. Please remember to be mindful of social distancing. Encourage them to walk slowly, to focus on each step, to take in the sounds of nature, and to be aware of the feel of the wind and sun on their body. For more information on labyrinth walking, visit:
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Take step-by-step photos of your construction work, and/or video people (with permission of course) enjoying walking your labyrinth.
I would love to see what you come up with! Email your creations to
marie.turley@nbed.nb.ca
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Another online program we’ve often used in music class to create music digitally is
http://isleoftune.com.
Check YouTube for tutorials on how to compose your own.
Here are links to a few compositions other people have done:
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Somebody That I Used to Know
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The Show Must Go On! A different Andrew Lloyd Weber theatre production is on every Friday night at 7:00 pm for free at the above link.
Check it out! Because in the theatre
the show must go on
!
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Writing - Virtual Tours of Famous Museums
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Looking to enrich your life with the arts and culture while at home? Click on the photo for virtual tours of 12 famous museums.
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Post-Tour Writing Prompt
If you were to create an exhibit of things most cherished by your family, what artifacts would it include and why?
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Gender, Media, and Culture
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Below is a list of a few more films and/or documentaries that explore various topics related to Gender, Culture and the Media. You can simply watch for entertainment or you can explore the topics/themes in more depth by writing about or discussing the questions below the titles.
- Transforming Gender: This documentary can be found online on CBC’s Doc Zone, and it explores the lives of transgender people living in Canada.
- The Mask You Live in: This documentary explores the lives of boys and men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while dealing with society’s narrow view of masculinity. It explores how our culture’s views on what it means to be a man is harmful to boys, men and society in general.
- Iron-Jawed Angels: This film can be found on YouTube, and it focuses on the American women’s suffrage movement during the 1910s and follows women’s suffrage leaders, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, as they use peaceful and effective nonviolent strategies and tactics to gain women’s right to vote.
- Killing Us Softly: This documentary series can be found on YouTube, and it spans as far back as the 1970s. They look at how media and advertising distorts the images of women and what it means to be feminine. It challenges people to think critically about popular culture and how it affects sexism, eating disorders and gendered violence.
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What surprised you?
I was shocked about...
I was surprised when...
I never thought...
I could not believe...
Really????
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What did the filmmaker/director think you already knew?
I was confused by...
The filmmaker/director
thought I knew...
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What challenged, changed, or confirmed your thinking?
At first I thought, but...
I had to rethink...
I was right/wrong about...
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Individual Family Dynamics
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First,check out this video on paper presented in both English and Mandarin.
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Second, check out these practice pages to learn Mandarin.
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IDÉLLO is a fantastic site for French Immersion or Intensive French students!
Subscribing to this resource is available free of charge to all parents and students. It offers a variety of certified resources in French, relevant and categorized according to subject matter and school grade. The site contains over 11 000 educational resources including: videos, games, websites, applications, and teaching tools. It is designed to meet the French needs of students and parents.
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Have a listen to the podcast:
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly - April 9, 2020: S9E15 - Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking: Advertising Torture Tests
If you would like to join a Teams conversation and discuss this episode of Under the Influence, or any other episode you listened to, send Mr. Grattan an email at
dean.grattan@nbed.nb.ca
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The times they are a changin', and Mrs. Tym walks you through an introduction to nutrition and why it's especially important during these times.
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Learn How to Use Double Exposure
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Psychology Brain Bits: Did you know?
A stegosaurus dinosaur weighed approximately 1,600 kg but had a brain that weighed only approximately 70 grams (the weight of an average apple). Check out this website for information about what different parts of the brain do:
Neuroscience for Kids
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Watch
Surviving the Teenage Brain
below to see if you can relate.
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-Ms. Flynn and Mrs. Piers-Kavanaugh
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Psychology Today
is a great magazine, but you can also read articles online. Search for a topic you are interested in from the main webpage at:
Send a quick message on Remind or through email (
vance.jessome@nbed.nb.ca
) to let Mr. Jessome know what you think of any of these.
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Ocean School / École de l'océan
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Ocean School is a free, innovative inquiry-based experience built with the partnership of Dalhousie University, Ocean Frontier Institute, and the National Film Board of Canada.
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Have you been going out for walks during this time at home? On your next walk, consider the fun "Talk a Walk" activities created by Mrs. Gray. Click on the document provided to select one of ten possible activities.
Let us know which walk you selected and send us your pictures to Mrs. Gray’s email,
carri.gray@nbed.nb.ca
!
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What can 28,000 rubber ducks lost at sea teach us?
In 1992, a shipping crate of rubber ducks were plunged into the ocean after the crate was lost at sea on its way to the US from Hong Kong.
At the time it was put down as a commercial loss and soon forgotten. Many years later the rubber ducks are now seen as an important tool in our understanding of ocean currents, as well as teaching us about pollution.
Check out the article and video to get the full story and learn about ocean currents.
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How do ocean currents work? - Jennifer Verduin
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Fun Fact:
This story inspired a children’s book , “10 Little Rubber Ducks” by Eric Carle.
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Ever wanted to create a video game? Are you interested in modeling how the virus Covid 19 can infect people and what does exponential growth look like? Here is your chance! Check out
https://code.org/break
episode 5 which has instructions on how to make your own simulation and a Q&A with Bill Gates. My daughter decided to have killer bunnies represent the virus. I can't wait to see what you come up with. Send your comments to
winnie.hsu@nbed.nb.ca
. Stay safe and well.
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Skilled Trades and Technology
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Culinary
Mrs. Kendall, our culinary technology guru, has put together two fabulous websites with weekly posts relating to cooking and baking. Cooks and bakers of all abilities can go on to these websites to get some great tips and recipes to try. Click on the images below to see what's on the menu for this week.
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Culinary 11 - Pies and Pastries!
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Culinary 12 - Meat Cookery!
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Interested in doing some photo editing, why not try out the new Pixlr E? You can download images or take images right off your phone and import them into the frame. Don't forget to check out the YouTube link for a beginner's guide to editing. Have fun!!
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3 Fun facts from Modern Metalworking
Goodheart-Willcox
- Some ways to cut sheet metal are manually with snips or by using a shear. (Chapter 15)
- Possible job opportunities related to sheet metal are HVAC technician as well as a Aircraft Structures Technician. (Chapter 15)
- Heat treatment is the controlled heating and cooling of a metal or alloy to obtain certain desirable changes in the metal. These changes can improve a metal’s toughness, wear, tensile strength, machinability, hardness, and resistance to shock. (Section 6)
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If anyone is interested in metalworking and would like a
free resource
please e-mail Mrs. Harris-Carr at
chelsea.harris-carr@nbed.nb.ca
for a code to the textbook.
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Ms. McCloskey's grade 9 Social Studies class created art and poetry to honour the lives of those lost in Nova Scotia on April 19, 2020. Here is one example of a piece created by a student in the class last week.
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Healthy Bodies; Healthy Minds
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Staying Active with Mr. B
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It's important to find ways to stay active during this time.
This week, Mr. B has provided a link to 30 Days of Core Strength from
darebee.com
. Click the image to check it out!
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Repeat 3 or 4 times! Good luck!
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This week, Mrs. MacKinnon is sharing the Lower Body Burn workout. This workout consists of one circuit that you complete 3 or 4 times. You can add dumbbells if you have them.
- 20 Reverse Lunge to High Knees + 20 Reverse Lunge Pulses. Then switch legs.
- 20 Curtsy Lunges + 20 Curtsy Pulses. Then switch legs.
- 20 Squat to Calf Raises + 20 squat pulses
- 30 second Jump Lunge to Jump Squat…burn it out!
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Another one of our favourite recipes this year was the 1, 2, 3 Protein Balls. They are packed with nutrients, flavours and are simple to make!
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A Special Thanks to our friends at
Simply for Life Northside
who welcomed our Girls Wellness group into their store in February and lead us through a nutrition workshop!
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-Ms. Bacon, Mrs. Carr, and Mrs. MacKinnon
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Dynamic Resistance Stretching
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"Hi OHS! It's your friendly neighbourhood art teacher!"
Mr. Ayer is back with another installment of Dynamic Resistance Stretching.
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YMCA at Home:
Free Programs Anytime, Anywhere! The YMCA YouTube channel has lots of videos dealing with everything from mindfulness to flow workouts. All free and available to you whenever you want.
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Activities and Challenges
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Math at Home with Mr. Amos
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Are you looking to try some math problems that will challenge your skills? Check out this document designed by Mr. Amos, Education Support Teacher in Numeracy. As a former OHS Teacher, he's looking to push your skills and enrich your math game. Check your solutions in a couple of weeks when we release the answers.
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Try your hand at the online jigsaw puzzles by clicking on the image below.
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Send us your travel stories that are 1-2 minutes long.
When did you go? Why did you go? What is your favorite memory?
This week, Mr. Bartlett shares one of his travel stores with a group of students to Egypt!
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Photography Challenge: Can You Guess What These Are?
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The three photos are examples of micro photography done by our photography teacher, Ms. Michaud-Hachey. If you think you know what they are please email
trista.michaud-hachey@nbed.nb.ca
Each week there will be a weekly winner and overall winners at the end. This might be a fun activity to do with your family, get everyone to try to wrap their heads around what things look like 40 and 100 x larger than normal. Put your observation and imagination skills to the test. Please be as specific as possible.
We will reveal the winners and answers in the next newsletter.
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Last week's challenge: 1. curtains, 2. pencil sharpener, 3. cat fur
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It's a Great Time to Take Up Gardening
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Each week we will provide you with some beginner information for growing your own vegetables at home
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This week we are going to focus on reusing materials and cutting back on waste. We have also included a link to a website to help you cut back on waste in the kitchen. Be sure to DM the photos of your crops to the OHS instagram account
@oromocto.high.school
so we can share them.
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Greening Up Your Home - Chance to Win Scott's Nursery Gift Card!
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Mrs. Michaud-Hachey is back at it again with another fantastic video! Here, she highlights some strategies you can use to show some plant love.
Show us what you try and submit your photos or videos to Mrs. Michaud-Hachey at
trista.michaud-hachey@nbed.nb.ca
by May 30, 2020 for a chance to win a Scott's Nursery gift card!
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Below you will find links to four supplementary learning resources from non-profit organizations in New Brunswick.
- The Gaia project empowers youth to take action on climate change through education.
- Brilliant Labs is a technology and experiential learning platform.
- iHub supports experiential, personalized, and community-integrated learning.
- World of Wisdom offers a multitude of resources including tutoring and career counselling for Indigenous students.
All of these non-profits have developed resources to support students during this prolonged closure of schools.
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Global Student Leadership Day (GSLD)
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Global Student Leadership Day
(GSLD)
is one of the largest gathering of some of the best youth speakers in the world (scroll down to see the lineup), to create an incredible virtual, international, student leadership event.
You will be able to participate in GSLD right from the comfort of your home over two days from May 6 and 7. GSLD will be broadcast for FREE over a secure online platform and will offer more than 15 hours of programming for student leaders (ages 13-18) and educators.
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