Panther Peek @ the Week- Parent ed.
Week of 04/03/2017
Caught You Caring Colour House Challenge for March/April
Calendar
This Week
Wednesday-Grad Photos and Sibling Photos
High School Transition Meetings
Thursday- Immunizations
Friday- PRIDE Assembly 2PM
Basketball Tournament Sydenham HS
UPCOMING EVENTS
04/12- HOZA! Presentation
04/14- Good Friday Holiday
04/17- Easter Monday Holiday
04/20- Jr. Classes to Queen's University for a Play
04/22- Earth Day
Proceeding with Purpose
Primary Mindfulness Workshops
Growth Mindset in Math
In general, a growth mindset is the belief that intelligence and ‘smartness’ can also be learned and that the brain grows from experience and effort. The opposite, a fixed mindset, is the idea that you are smart, or you are not. In math, that translates into “some people are good at math, and some are not.” Did you know that praising efforts rather than intelligence or results can impact your child’s ability to persevere in challenges?! The goal is to have children thrive on challenges and see failures, not as a sign of low intelligence, but as a learning opportunity. Brain research tells us that making mistakes actually wires more connections into the brain! When a person has a growth mindset, they accept challenges, see their efforts as worthwhile, and are open to learning from mistakes. Students with a growth mindset achieve at higher levels than those with fixed mindsets. How can you help? Some simple ways:
- Adding “yet” when they claim they are “not good at this” (Respond: “You are not good at this yet.”)
- Ask questions that focus on their effort and choices and get them to reflect on satisfaction of that effort (e.g. What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?)
- Model this yourself as you share about your day
Math Mashup Weekly Challenge
Math Mashup Weekly Challenge
Each week a math challenge will be posted for students to try. The challenge will be posted on Twitter and on the Problem Solving bulletin board. Students should submit their solution to Mrs. Croth by the end of the school day on Thursday. The correct solution will be announced on Friday's announcements and posted on the bulletin board.
Remember~ math is fun, and we all love a challenge! (This week's challenge is below)
Name anything with better odds than getting a Perfect Bracket during March madness
I thought I would leave this questions in for another week. This question is VERY open ended... There are lots of potential answers- tell me yours!
For example, you have 1:600 odds of becoming an astronaut!
Submit your answer to Mrs. Croth by the end of the day Thursday~ good luck!
Proceeding with Purpose- Athletics and the Arts
Basketball Season is here!
This year we had enough children and enthusiasm to have 2 junior boys teams and 2 junior girls teams. Everyone who tried out was able to participate. Students are in grades 4-6. Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Dobiech organized the teams and are coaching along with: parent volunteers Nicole Mundell and Karyn Mclean, grade 7 and 8 volunteer coaches and a variety of other teachers who've volunteered to supervise practices. Teams will have variety of games throughout March and April, tournaments March 31 and April 1st @ Lasalle SS/Sir John A and April 7th and 8th @ Sydenham HS/Loughborough PS with divisional tournaments TBA for the first week of May.