Revel Recap: Sept 22-26, 2025
Important Upcoming Dates
Grade 4-6 Soccer Jamboree - Monday, September 29th from 10-2pm at Wesley Clover Park
Grade 3 Soccer Jamboree *New Location and Date*: Thursday, October 2 from 10-12:00pm at Elmwood School
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation & Orange Shirt Day - Tuesday, September 30th
Session 1 Exhibitions:
Tuesday, October 7th - Discovery Exhibition, 4:15-5:30
Wednesday, October 8th - Spark Exhibition, 4:15-5:30
Thursday, October 9th - Exploration Exhibition, 4:15-5:30
Exploration & Launchpad Field Trip to Arbraska Laflèche - Friday, October 10th
October 14th to 17th - Session Break Camp- Registration is open on BAND. 2 spots remaining!
Spark Studio
Mindfulness and Launch
We kicked off our week by welcoming the new season! During our morning discussion, the Sparks shared their thoughts on the changing weather in Fall, special celebrations and holidays and what they personally enjoy about this colourful season. We then read the fun story, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves, which sparked a lot of laughs! To finish off our morning, they participated in a colouring activity connected to fall. Pictures such as, “pumpkin spice everything”, nature and scarecrows were provided for the learners! On Tuesday, the Sparks listened to Lyla in the Loop podcast, Episode 1, Funny Business. The podcast was about character Luke wanting to make his mom laugh as hard as she made him laugh earlier, so Lyla helps him brainstorm and test funny ideas. They gather input from friends, try out jokes, and finally land on a successful knock-knock joke that makes mom laugh. Wednesday is for yoga! The Sparks were guided through poses using the Pretzel Yoga cards. Everyone held their poses really well. Some of the yoga cards are interactive and ask questions such as, “When you’re in mountain pose, what is it like on your mountain?”, “Are you snowcapped or is it sunny?” and “What can you see below?” to assist with visualization. Afterward, they enjoyed a cosmic kid follow-along. To end the week, the Sparks worked on their gratitude journal, “I’m grateful for my Guide because…”! Each day, we start our launches by completing the studio calendar! Followed by this on Tuesday morning, we had a thoughtful launch about the journey into the world of happiness! We began by inviting the Sparks to consider what happiness really means - not just as a feeling but as an experience! On the whiteboard, there was a chart with nine different activities, such as sitting in a dentist chair, playing a game, reading a book, sitting quietly and reflecting, and much more! Each learner was asked to rate these from 1 to 9 based on how important they believed each was to their personal happiness. The Sparks were then asked follow-up questions: Is happiness a feeling you have or a state you are in? Do you agree or disagree that happiness includes feeling good about yourself and the well-being of others? The next day, they had a launch on their studio maintenance board. They reviewed the new maintenance pictures and had their first chance to test it out at the end of the day! On Thursday, role play was used to practice a peace table. A peace table is placed in the Spark studio as a tool to help learners resolve conflicts independently, respectfully, and thoughtfully. This tool demonstrates that the Sparks are capable of solving their own problems! Peace Tables provide a structured space for honest communication and emotional growth. In the Spark studio, a Guide will step in when needed for guidance and mainly encourage the Spark learners to navigate these conversations to build confidence in conflict resolution. The Sparks role-play situations, such as what to do if a learner takes something from them while they’re using it or what to do if someone gets hit at recess. To wrap up this week’s launches, they paused to check in with their body, mind, and mood. Through a series of reflective questions and fun “Would You Rather” choices, the Sparks explored what wellness really means beyond just eating good foods and being active. They had a conversation about how wellness is personal and can look different for everyone. How ignoring even one aspect of our mental and physical health, such as rest, emotions, or connection, can throw us off balance. Most importantly, they realized that even Sparks need to take care of themselves and show up for others.
Quest
We are halfway through the Session One quest, Create the Culture. To kick off this week's topics of vision boards and studio promises, we read important books called My Magical Dreams, My Classroom is a Family, and I Promise. To start our new week, we began with reading The Magical Dreams book, which inspired the Sparks to think, visualize and discuss their future hopes and encourage them to dream about wonderful things they want to do and the places they wish to explore. To build their vision board, they had a checklist of questions to answer that would fill their board. Questions such as, What brings you joy/happiness? What is your favourite hobby? Who inspires you? What words make you feel strong? What are your dreams and goals? What do you want to learn about? On Tuesday through Thursday, the Sparks worked on their vision boards. They used magazines, glue and had their own Bristol board to fill. We are super excited to share these at Exhibition. I Promise by Lebron James and Our Classroom is a Family by Shannon Olsen are two books we connected with when introducing the studio's promises, expectations and the idea of community. I Promise inspires the values we should uphold in a school environment by being respectful, persevering through obstacles and working hard. Whereas Our Classroom is a Family focuses on building a caring and inclusive studio where learners can feel safe, supported and valued, just as they would be in a family. The learners then branched into groups to come up with three promises we should have for our studio. Promises such as hands and feet to ourselves, being kind, having fun and cleaning up after ourselves. They will be presenting the final promises at Exhibition and signing off on them!
Art
Be a Tree, written by Maria Gianferrari, is a book about the similarities of trees and humans. The story invited the Sparks to reflect that we are all like trees, our body = the trunk, our skin = the bark and our hearts giving us strength and support. We are also fueled by air and sunshine! Followed by this story, the Sparks worked on a project where they overlapped construction paper in the shape of trees to make a collage.
Reader/Writer Workshops
Group one continued their alphabet studies this week. Working on Cc, this group used the sandpaper to practice making the letter. Each learner had a turn to trace it with their finger, say the letter and its sound. Afterwards, they came up with words that started with C. Lastly, they completed a page in the alphabet animal booklet! Group two focused on words with the short e sound. Together, we sounded out and spelled words like nest, desk, wet, yell, bell, tent, stem, and web on our whiteboards. The Sparks did a fantastic job using their phonics skills to spell these words independently! Afterward, we completed a writing activity to celebrate the new season. Learners wrote about their favourite things to do in Autumn and illustrated their writing. Popular fall activities for the Sparks included trick-or-treating, carving pumpkins, and jumping in leaves!
Math Workshops
Group 1 continued their number recognition workshop using the sandpaper numbers from numbers 0-10, then using the teen board set (Montessori) to trace and print on either their chalkboard or whiteboard. To end the workshop, they played two games. Starting with a picture matching game with numbers 1-9, they were presented with pictures shaped into numbers and had to match the number to the card with the closest picture on it. The Sparks ended with ordering numbers 11-20. Over the past few weeks, Group Two has shown a solid understanding of numbers. Continuing to build on that foundation, we introduced addition. We began by discussing the plus (+) and equals (=) signs, and explored how addition involves putting two or more numbers together to find the total. Each learner received a 1–10 addition booklet, and as a group, we explored three Montessori materials that could help reinforce addition concepts. Two different types of addition boards and coloured beads were used. We worked through each material together, using it to solve problems and find answers collaboratively. After practicing with all three materials, learners split into small groups. Each group chose one material to work with and used it to complete two more pages in their addition booklets. These materials will be great options for the learners to select during their independent work periods!
Geography
The Sparks boarded their Spark Air jet once again, this time heading to Switzerland to celebrate the European Day of Languages! With their passport and luggage in hand, they boarded the plane and looked for their seats. Their captain, sharing the weather in Switzerland, went over the safety procedures and added turbulence to their journey. Once they landed in Switzerland, they played a relay game using the continents. Each group had to toss a bean bag into a hoop, run to their pile of continents, colour in the continent they approached, then bear crawl back to their group to hand the bean bag to the next person! After this activity, they played a game where they were running around the gym and multiples of each continent were placed around the gym. The guide would shout a continent, and they had to get to it! If they went to the incorrect place, they were eliminated! Lastly, the Sparks flew back to the continent of North America to be in Ottawa!
French
This week, we continued practicing how to read the calendar and focused on the numbers from 1 to 20. On Monday, we listened to and sang the numbers song. Tuesday, the Rebels did a colouring activity, reviewed the seasons in French and learned how to say automne (Fall). They continued practicing the days of the week while Group 2 started writing the numbers. Wednesday, we practiced naming our emotions using puppets and played a game similar to Mr. Potato Head called « l’ananas des émotions » to name different feelings. Thursday: « We played Quelle heure est-il monsieur le loup? » (What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf?) to review the numbers and Bouledogue to review the colors.
Additional Highlights
Throughout the week, the Sparks had stations scattered around the studio. They rotated between kinetic sand, Play-Doh and loose parts. When they were at the stations, they were to use their imagination to make things connected to fall. At the Play-Doh station, learners were making candy, which is connected to Halloween, and friends at the loose parts station were making monsters! Afterwards, they used cookie-cutter shapes. During work periods, many learners were practicing their Bob Books and UFLI reading activities one-on-one with a guide. Learners were also interested in counting chains and the reading drawers! Lastly, show and share was to bring in their favourite book! Books such as The Gruffalo, The Leaf Thief, Biscuit, and Let’s Play.
Discovery
Mindfulness & Launch
On Monday, the Rebels wrapped up a collaborative zen doodle mural. Launch featured a game called “VisualEYES” to help activate our prefrontal cortex and hippocampus. Rebels examined photographs for thirty seconds and then, after it was taken away, answered a series of questions about elements of the photo. Rebels quickly realized how difficult it could be to memorize intricate details, finding it challenging but a fun way to wake up our brains on a Monday! Tuesday’s launch was Rebel-led and focused on connecting with others by sharing her love for Irish dancing. Rebels learned about the different costumes, hairstyles, shoes and history of Irish dance, as well as watched a video of what Irish dancing looks like on the stage. Wednesday’s New York Times puzzle challenge featured Connections, Wordle and Pips. The Rebels solved the purple Connections category first (known as the hardest or least intuitive). Then they solved with Wordle in only four guesses and had time to beat the easy level of Pips. At launch, Squad Chickens featured new “mini squads”, offering the opportunity for new learners to step into leadership roles to assess where their teammates are at this week and discuss a plan moving forward to take better care of our gym space during activity breaks and PE. Thursday’s Thank you for Sharing prompt sparked a great community “would you rather” conversation about staying home alone overnight for one night versus being outside during a thunderstorm. Rebels shared a lot of ideas about safety, what makes them feel safe, and how they would manage their environment in either scenario. At launch, Mme. Marianne continued her friendship series discussion with the Rebels, and they determined whether certain situations were bullying or not. Friday’s Boomwhackers was an uplifting jam session featuring “Idol” by K-pop Demon Hunters, which led us into an exciting Current Events launch! Our top news stories for this week featured a Cinderella Story about the Canadian women’s rugby team advancing to the world finals, a possible sequel in the works from K-Pop Demon Hunters and the Fat Bear Week competition kicking off this week! Fat Bear Week is an annual competition that takes place in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, where brown bears face off to see who can pack on the most pounds of salmon before hibernation season. Rebels enjoyed seeing all the adorable contestants and learning their hilarious nicknames given by park rangers and locals.
Reader/Writer
Reader/Writer’s final challenge for this session focused on the communication skills needed during conflict resolution. Rebels examined a conflict resolution “recipe” between two Rebels. Draw and Anchor Rebels built a Word Wall full of different vocabulary they thought would be helpful when participating in a Peace Table. Words that expressed a variety of emotions, ranging from hurt and anger to disappointment and embarrassment, as well as sentence starters to build resolve, “Next time, I wish you would try…” or “It would make me feel better if you…” were big areas of focus. Next, Rebels role played in various conflict scenarios. Working in small groups, Rebels filled out the conflict resolution scripts from the perspective of each character in their scenarios. Aim and Release Rebels examined a variety of conflicts independently and created their own conflict resolution scripts. Next week, Rebels will decide which challenge they would like to select as their Excellent Exhibition piece and create a good copy/elevate their work so that it is ready to be on display for Exhibition in week six.
Math Lab
This week’s Crash Course theme was exploring how we represent our thinking in the lab, and we considered something called CRA: concrete, representational and abstract. For example, holding up your fingers to show addends and then count sums is a concrete strategy. Arranging groups of Base Ten Blocks to show multiplication is a concrete strategy. Drawing the fingers or the blocks on paper is representational. Finally, expressing the ideas with numbers and symbols only, like “2 + 2 = 4” or “122 x 3 = 366,” is abstract. On Tuesday, Group 2 met to work on a task using Cuisenaire Rods or relational rods, identifying proportional relationships between differently sized rods and how this changes when we decide which rod represents one whole. They used the physical blocks to test theories and then made sketches or wrote statements to show their thinking. On Thursday with Group 1, the team tackled a task involving pattern blocks and isometric dot paper, determining how much of a block design or structure is made up of a certain shape or colour. We focused our discussion on unit fractions and exchanging blocks until divisions were fair, as well as how the fraction we use to name a piece of a design changes when the overall shape of the design changes. They traced the blocks on the isometric paper and tried to label the parts using fractions.
Civilizations
This week, Rebels heard the story of the first writings of the Egyptians and Sumerians: hieroglyphs and cuneiform! Where hieroglyphs were made to last, slowly carved into stone tablets, cuneiform was (as one Rebel put it) more like an erasable whiteboard, carved into wet clay (and sometimes baked hard if they wanted to keep the document). Eventually, Egyptians also made papyrus out of reeds from the Nile River, writing with ink on reed-paper. The information from the stone and baked clay lasted, but unfortunately, although it saved space, much of the paper records have not survived, so we know more about the times of stone and clay than of paper. Rebels mapped the Nile, Sumer and Egypt and then tried deciphering hieroglyph messages and writing their own!
French
On Monday, we continued our journey into our French airport vocabulary and travel expressions. The Rebels began by putting the finishing touches on their suitcase drawings, adding plenty of personal touches and details as they designed the items they would “pack” for a trip to Hawaii. Once the suitcases were complete, we role played Suitcase French Customs, an interactive game that let everyone share and answer questions about the contents of their suitcase - all in French! These activities encouraged the Rebels to use full sentences, listen carefully, and build confidence in their conversation skills. We practiced short travel dialogues using flash cards, acting out common airport situations such as checking in, asking for help, or going through security. The Rebels enjoyed taking turns with the cards and trying out these everyday expressions, which will be useful in real travel situations. On Wednesday, we played «Gauche-Droite», a mime and vocabulary game. Mme Marianne called out French words, and the Rebels had to quickly act them out.
Quest
Officially half-way through our first Quest, this week’s was “Work Like A Rebel.” On Monday, Rebels completed an insanely challenging task, making a very difficult decision. If you could only have one for the rest of your life, would you save: pizza, poutine, tacos/nachos, mac and cheese, sushi/ramen, or chicken fingers? We used each Rebel’s vote to narrow down the list until only the top three items remained. In case you’re wondering, sushi/ramen, mac and cheese and tacos/nachos are critical for survival! Rebels then repeated this force rank process, except this time it was in smaller groups working with our studio contract items. Rebels reviewed their current ideas for studio covenants, Rules of Engagement (ROEs), tech promises and also the Guide promises. Then, we started a Rainbow SIlhouette Portrait project. Using the silhouette of their head, Rebels started to paint and fill in their portrait with doodles to represent their personality and what is most important to them. On Tuesday, we launched Quest with a key Revel discussion: without tests, grade or report cards, how do we communicate progress? We have so many tools to do this: Core Skills app dashboards showing our levels, our Google sheet Goal Trackers showing our weekly and year-long goals, Journey Tracker points, our Badge Plans and completed badges and so much more. This conversation will be on-going as we begin to prepare for Rebel-led Journey Meetings next session. On Wednesday we hosted a very important event: our first Squad Leader Election! There were eight candidates who shared a few words, or even made slide presentations, hoping to earn the vote of their peers. We used materials from Elections Canada and followed real-world election protocol, checking voters were on a registered list, using privacy booths to mark our official ballots with all candidate names and then folding and placing our ballot in the official ballot box! Results will be announced in Week 6 and the newly elected leadership team will begin their roles as leaders starting Session 2. On Thursday, before trying to finish up our portraits, we reviewed the Rebel Buck system and how it links to our revised studio contracts. The remainder of the period was spent working on our Quest To-Do list, closing loops and completing assignments from weeks 1-4.
As we head into the final week of Quest before Exhibition, Rebels will be focusing on finalizing our studio contracts, what excellence means at Revel Academy, and collecting examples of their best work for display. Rebels will be stepping into the role of event planners as they brainstorm and iron out the details of their very first Exhibition. What do we want the space to look like? What should be on display? Should there be food and drinks served? Where should we have seating for families and guests? What decorations do we want, and what should our overall budget be? Rebels will be a part of Exhibition every step of the way and we look forward to hosting everyone in just two more weeks!
Additional Highlights
For PE workshops this week, Rebels explored the Carlington Hill and hiking paths and completed a nature scavenger hunt, competed in dance battles in the gym, and played teambuilding games.
Exploration Studio
Mindfulness & Launch
We returned to our Social Emotional Pyramid on Monday to learn about and discuss self-regulation. Self-regulation is all about managing your emotions, thoughts, and actions in a balanced way so that you can respond to life’s challenges with calm and control. We spoke about the role of impulse control, emotional resilience, stress management, thoughtful response, adaptability, and emotional awareness in decision-making. Rebels then reflected and journaled about a situation they reacted quickly, and how pausing may have changed the outcome and how they coped with a recent setback. Lastly, they wrote about a time they had to adapt to change, how they felt about it initially, and what positive outcomes emerged as they adjusted. At Launch, we brought our attention back to the Overarching Question of the Year. We learned about Devy Saldivar, a fifteen-year-old who passed away in Hurricane Harvey and then listened to a reading of The Dash Poem (Read by Author, Linda Ellis). It was a hard-hitting poem that left the learners thinking about what they will create with their “dash.” We ended our Launch with a Socratic discussion about Stephen Covey’s (author of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People) suggestion "to begin with the end in mind.” Rebels reflected on the three questions and what is and will be the most important to them at the end of their life (See Potential Discussion Questions). On Tuesday, we completed Lesson 4: The Fact Strainer in our Becoming a Critical Thinker text. That afternoon at closing, we learned about the "Theory of Broken Windows” and how, sometimes, when small problems are ignored, big problems are more likely to occur. We contemplated whether we were seeing any small broken promises in our studio and who is primarily responsible: those who are breaking small promises, or the individuals who don’t hold them accountable. It was time to get creative on Wednesday morning. Learners each worked on a puzzle piece, complete with their name, interests, talents, Myers-Briggs results, Love Language, Enneagram, and other personal information. Due to the rainy weather on Thursday morning, learners opted to work on the 1K Rep Challenge (exercise), complete their Becoming a Critical Thinker lesson from Tuesday, work on their puzzle art piece from Wednesday, or work on their Lego Rivendell build. Afterward, we held a Socratic discussion on the “Spirit of the Law vs the Letter of the Law.” Throughout our lives, we’ll be challenged with holding others accountable. We discussed how it’s a three-step process: establishing guardrails, deciphering if someone has crossed the line, and holding the person to the agreed-upon consequences while still being kind. We then learned that the letter of the law is literally the manner in which the law is written, while the spirit of the law is a moral or social consensus of that interpretation. Rebels were then given a few scenarios and asked to vote on when they would follow the spirit or the letter of the law and whether they used their gut, social norms, logic, or something else to decide.
The Hobbit
On Monday and Tuesday, we read Chapter 7 and took time on Wednesday to work on a free-write on the following prompt: Beorn, the skin-changer, takes the form of a gigantic black bear. If you were a skin-changer like Beorn, which animal would you want to take the form of? Describe what you would look like and what you would do in your animal form. Rebels then worked on completing the Chapter 7 comprehension questions. Thursday and Friday, we read Chapter 8.
Reading Challenge, Paragraph of the Week and Grammar
This week’s reading challenge focused on strategies to use to determine the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words. While reading a story about escaping an Egyptian library, learners used context to replace bold words with synonyms from a word bank.
The grammar focus was reviewing when to use your vs. you’re. After Monday’s lesson about the difference, they wrote sentences using each version and on Tuesday chose the correct homophone in a series of sentences. On Wednesday, they wrote a mysterious or urgent note to someone using “your” and “you’re” correctly at least three times each. Thursday’s team-up challenge asked partners to identify the errors in a paragraph to discover a mystery word, and on Friday, they corrected a paragraph individually.
The paragraph of the week required Rebels to integrate dialogue between two detectives showing their contrasting investigative styles and unique personalities. After free writing on Monday, they transformed their paragraph by strengthening the narrative voice of their characters. Wednesday’s task was to improve the dialogue with the help of descriptive text, providing context, and incorporating character actions, body language, and facial expressions in between. On Technical Thursday, they reformatted their dialogue, ensuring to use quotation marks to enclose spoken words, start a new paragraph for each new speaker, indent the first line of each paragraph and use dialogue tags. Lastly, on Friday, Rebels wrote the good copy of their paragraph.
Reader/Writer Workshop
This week, we focused on figurative language! We began by learning the definition and going over some examples of metaphor, simile, alliteration, assonance, personification, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, hyperbole, and idiom. Rebels then travelled around the room to read 28 famous quotes, identifying the figurative language used in each one. As a group, we met to go over every quote and the device used. For closings on Monday and Tuesday, we played quiz games based on movie quotes and pop music lyrics to assess and solidify our figurative language identification. We also played a Kahoot at Thursday’s closing, and they did an amazing job!
Quest
Time to Escape!!! Rebels broke into three groups and created an Escape Room for their families to enjoy at Exhibition. They were in charge of the whole experience, including the backstory, clues, props, and ambience. On Monday, groups completed their pre-production brainstorming and put in their “supply order.” Tuesday, they got right to work crafting their clues and materials and writing their instructions. On Wednesday, they continued with their production phase in hopes of having the other Exploration Rebels test their escape rooms on Thursday. It was time to put the finishing touches on our rooms, set up, and then test on Thursday afternoon! Rebels divided up and were able to either lead their room or visit another group with the goal of providing feedback. Some had props that malfunctioned, while others' clues were too difficult or too direct. All of the teams came away with some great ways to improve their rooms before Exhibition Day.
Math Lab
Rebels completed the research and mathematical questions for their “Favourite Number” project and created their rough draft. After going over the Excellence Criteria and requirements for being displayed at Exhibition, learners were also challenged to make their word problem more challenging and add any additional details they could. Next week, they will create their final drafts!
Civilizations - Big History
Using a story about a mysterious “alien” signal, Rebels identified the different ways the characters figured out where the signal was coming from. We then spoke at length about the four claim testers: Intuition, Logic, Authority, and Evidence and reflected on which of the four we use most in our daily life, and which is most important to use when trying to decide if a claim is true or false. Rebels were then given a series of claims to either agree or disagree with and write an explanation for why, and the claim tester used to make the decision. It was then time to solve the case of Özti the Iceman! While learning about a 5,300-year-old murder mystery, Rebels wrote down as many clues as they could, as well as the information gathered from the clues. We quickly discovered that many scientists and scholars were consulted to understand all the evidence, and we consulted a Disciplines Chart to choose at least three types of scholars we would ask for help. Lastly, we read a short essay entitled “What Will We Leave Behind” regarding the amount of information we are now able to record and store, compared to how little we had to go on when studying the case of Özti. What type of experts will be needed to piece together the story of the era in which we currently live in the year 7325? On Thursday, Rebels were given a series of claims about Özti’s life and death and had to determine which of the claim testers was being used before having some time to catch up on any outstanding work items.
French
This week, the Rebels continued working on their French TV commercial. They first completed their dialogue or script, then began filming their commercial, carefully choosing their words and delivery to make their ad convincing and fun. Each group also had to find or create a special prop to bring their commercial to life. On Thursday, we celebrated Franco-Ontarian Day. To mark this special occasion, the Rebels translated and sang the song “Notre place”, an important anthem for Ontario’s French-speaking community. We also took part in a quiz about Franco-Ontarian history, learning key facts about the culture, traditions, and contributions of French speakers in our province, all while practicing French.
Becoming a Critical Thinker
Tuesday's lesson, “The Fact Strainer,” focused on separating facts from their fictions. We learned that a fact is irreducible and can’t be altered by how we interpret it, such as dates, people’s names, and locations. We learned that our job is to ignore the modifiers, the markers that tell us whether the name of the person means something about them, if the location is associated with particular feelings or if the detail is colored by adjectives that change how we see the data. Using an excerpt, we identified the facts as well as the interpretation, and then learners each chose a current news item, including topics such as radioactive rhinos, protests in Nepal, “Phillies Karen,” AI in schools, and new evidence courtesy of the Mars Rover. They found at least three articles on the same topic and compared the facts listed in each, also noticing which facts were omitted in some of the articles and where the facts were placed in the articles. They completed the chapter with a reflection on how the sequence of the facts impacts the reader and what the sequence says about the journalist's priorities. They also thought about interpretations and examined the bias that may be present.
Launchpad Studio
This week, in preparation for the SATs in October, one of our learners completed a few mathematics pre-tests to determine where to focus their remaining study time. They chose to review exponential growth, data center and spread, conditional probability, and inferences based on statistics.
In AP Chemistry, we completed the last reading and quiz pair on analyzing chemical equations, and a multi-page practice on stoichiometry calculations. Learners also began the second lab of the course: Mole Ratios in Two Double-Replacement Reactions.
One learner began their study of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by reading through some introductory material and writing about the relevance of chivalry today. The other Rebel began reading Johnny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead for her Understanding Contemporary First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Voices English course.
Launchpad learners also assisted the Exploration Rebels with their Escape Rooms. On Thursday, they tested and gave valuable feedback to each group. With their remaining class time, one learner returned to their study of American Sign Language, focusing on past lessons before they begin learning new signs next week.
Potential Discussion Ideas or Questions to Ask Your Rebel:
Spark Studio
Role-play a peace table with your family. Ask your learner the steps that are within a peace table.
What are the studio promises?
Can you share what pictures you chose for your vision board? What question was asked for you to put that picture on your board?
Share your favourite yoga pose.
French: How high can you count in French?
Discovery Studio
How did you feel about your goals this week? Were they in your challenge zone, comfort zone or panic zone? If you could change one thing about the hardest goal that you have, what would it be and why?
What was most challenging about your Reader Writer conflict resolution script this week: Writing the script with a partner or reading it aloud in front of the group?
What images did you add to your self-portrait project in Quest this week?
Can you explain how you show progress at Revel without report cards, tests, grades or marks?
French: How did you try to make your commercial convincing or exciting?
Exploration Studio
Which of these questions do you anticipate will be most important to you at the end of your life's journey? What about right now? Why?
Did I contribute something meaningful?
Was I a good person? and
Who did I love, and who loved me?
In The Hobbit, the travellers do not take Beorn's advice to stay out of the enchanted stream. When was a time you ignored someone's good advice, and you shouldn't have?
What pieces of information are facts, and which are modifiers?
Tell me about Özti. What types of information did they gather about his life and his last days?
French: Why do we celebrate Franco-Ontarian Day?
Launchpad Studio
What about the future excites you? What scares you most?
Do you feel that you are managing your time well? Do you feel that you could take on more course work or responsibilities?
What is your biggest priority this week?