Hello Parents and my students!

I hope that all of you are doing well. I hope that you all enjoyed your March Break, as best as you could. Things have changed a lot over the past week, but the most important thing is that you and your family is healthy and safe. Please let your children know that I miss them very much and that I am thinking of each of them.

Since we will not be in school over the next few weeks, I would like you to check our class blog a couple times a week. I will be updating it as time goes on. Academics is not the priority right now, but if you want some tasks for your child to work on, here is some information that may be of assistance.

I have several links that will assist your children with practice in various subject areas. Feel free to go into our St. Rita website and click on the student portal. Here, you will be able to access various Apps and programs in various subject areas. Your children are

very familiar with Zorbits, Raz-Kids, Starfall and Book Creator. Feel free to have them practice various skills using these programs. There are many other programs available on the student portal and the online resources sent by the Ontario Ministry of Education (see below).

 The Province of Ontario launched a new website called Learn at Home to help students continue

learning while schools are closed.

The online resource is in line with the kindergarten to grade 12 curriculum. 

The website contains reading material for elementary and secondary students.

Qualified tutors will be made available through TVO, to answer questions from students.

High school content is designed with a focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics

(STEM) courses to ensure core competencies and skills are reinforced. 

Over the next few weeks, feel free to practice your reading skills on Raz-Kids or Starfall. You could also take some time to read your favourite books from home or visit storylineonline.net .  Here you will find some books online. You also have access to Bookflix in the Student Portal (Username: ottawcarl , Password: otta1135). 

Book creator is a great resource for story writing. The code needed for Book Creator is:

5NWTSJC

The kids had an in-class workshop a few weeks before the break. They are familiar with the program and really enjoy it. They have already began writing their stories. I also have access to it, so I will be able to read their stories. Looking forward to it!!  

You could also visit  Journalbuddies.com . Here, there are several topics and prompts to assist the students with journal writing.

For Math, www.ixlmath.com and www.iknowit.com  are excellent resources for math. 

Madame Robu has provided me with the following sites. Feel free to use them to practice French skills.

Livres Video 

user name : sr

Password : Bravo 

Also, 

https://apprendrealire.net/ 

apprendre a lire 

This is an interactive website, age appropriate. A website from France. Free of charge.  It includes sounds, vocabulary and games in French.

Please note that I will be contacting you over the next few days to answer any questions.

I hope that all of you are staying healthy. We will take this one day at a time!!

Please also feel free to reach out to me via email at rosetta.vena@ocsb.ca

Take care of yourselves,

Rosetta Vena :0)