Dear Kelsey Kids and Parents,

I hope you have had a good week. I’m so

excited about Friday File this week because we

have some exciting things happening here at

Kelsey Virtual Learning School!

This coming week, we will be hosting 3 virtual

grade 6-7 transition meetings. As well, our

students have started a thank you campaign for

our Frontline workers and Ms Nishikaze has

started our first virtual extracurricular: a spring

talent show! Information to follow in the File!

Nicole Miller, Interim PrincipalThank you, Catherine from 7D for this poster!

HERE

Every year, the students at Kelsey put on a Spring Talent show for the community to come

out and enjoy! The concert usually consists of the Band, Choir, special solo performances,

as well as an incredible Dragon dance to finish it off!

You are familiar with the saying, "The show must go on!" Well, we did not want to miss the

opportunity to continue with this tradition, even if it meant the show looking a little different.

We have decided to still go ahead with the concert--virtual style!

Students will have the opportunity to audition for the show and all the selected acts will be

compiled into a 'movie' format for everyone to enjoy. Because of the unique quarantine

situation that we are in, even siblings and parents can be involved in the act!

All the details for the audition are listed in the Music Google Classroom, including

deadlines.

I think this will be a wonderful way to be a part of making Kelsey history! The final movie

can also be shared with our local seniors home and other community members to enjoy.

We are really excited to see what our students come up with and seeing the final concert of

the 2019-2020 school year!"

THE

SHOW

MUST

GO

ON!

Students at Henry Kelsey are

putting together a THANK

YOU message to frontline

workers!

As part of a larger project

supported by our amazing

Child and Youth Counsellor,

Emily Portelles, our kids have

until next Friday to

submit...I’m giving you a

sneak peak over the next

couple of pages. We will send

out the whole group of them

when it is all submitted!

What a talented bunch of kids

we have here! And even more

importantly, a group full of

gratitude during this time!

I’m proud of Kelsey Kids!

Katherine and Varshan are the awesome

contributors to this lip sync! I’m putting it

here because I made a clerical error and

posted the wrong name. Sorry Varshan!

This is great!!

Kelsey Jr. Engineers

( ?-STEM-! )

Who is Kelsey’s Jr. Engineer?

A student who Design and Build

Ingenium (Cleverness)

+ Ingeniare (To Design/Devise)

Engineering

Kelsey’s STEM

Program:

-Define the Problem

-Do the Research

-Design the Solutions

-Build the Prototype

-Test the Prototype

-Evaluate the Solutions

Top 5 Reasons to be in Kelsey’s STEM Program:

-Critical Thinkers

-Problem Solvers

-Efficient workers

-Collaborative Work

-FUN!!!

Kelsey’s STEM Program:

At Kelsey, your child will be engaged in hands-on exciting real-world challenges that will broaden his/her mind and skills. Our STEM program will provide opportunities for students to explore designing, planning and building techniques to help solve today’s challenges.

Your child’s creative thinking will be shared and appreciated in our diverse community of Kelsey Jr. Engineers.

Our Recent Projects:

Penny Boat Challenge

Paper Airplane Challenge

.

Distance VS. Time

Who did

this little

cutie turn

out to

be??

This week is truly bittersweet. Our

wonderful Mr. Frempong is

leaving us as Ms Michaelides is

returning from her leave. We are

so grateful for his leadership,

kindness and commitment to our

students. The students made Mr.

Frempong a wonderful slide show

with videos and comments about

how much they are going to miss

him. I’m including a few pictures

here. What a terrific impact he has

had. We will miss you, Mr.

Frempong.

On the next page, you will see

the weekly Guidance

Challenge! This week, taking

breaks that are restful and

rejuvenating is our challenge!

See the next page for the

poster and the challenge!

For Parents: An article for parents working hard to act as

parent-teacher during this pandemic:https://www.edutopia.org/article/7-guiding-principles-parents-teaching-

home

Taking a variety of different kinds of

breaks to increase focus and attention

This weeks challenge:

● review the strategies for taking breaks

offered in the graphic

● try ONE or TWO new ways to ‘take a

break’ from working and learning each

day

● share a successful ‘way to take a

break’ with a friend or family member!

● share the poster with your family to

see what their favourite strategies are

or ones that they would like to try

Suvethi (above) and Farah from

7F created these posters for

Earth Day 2020!

Art recreation by Franklin! This took a lot of time

and work, what a GREAT job!

William 8B

Bonaparte

Crossing the

Grand Saint-

Bernard Pass, 20

May 1800

Artist: Jacques

Louis David

Museum: Palace of

Versailles

Alan 8B

The Qianlong Emperor

in Ceremonial Armor

on Horseback

(Recreation in Samurai

Armor)

Artist: Giuseppe

Castiglione

Gallery: The Palace

Museum

Located in: Beijing,

China

Susan 8B

Portrait of a girl

dressed in blue

Artist: Johannes

Cornelisz

Verspronck

Ms Langan is at it again - making people feel great! She has created these

beautiful painted rocks and has placed them around her neighbourhood to

make people smile when they are out for walks. Thank you, Ms. Langan!

Gratitude rock on the left from our wonderful

CYC, Emily Portelles! We never got to do our

Yoga classes but we look forward to the day

we can!

Here’s recently published Parents/Guardians Guide

to Google Tools. It offers information for families on

Classroom, Meet, Chromebooks, Accessibility,

Security & Privacy. It's a great place for families to

familiarize themselves with G Suite for Education

Tools.

Please visit this section of the TDSB Remote

Learning site for some helpful technology

resources for families including: Accessing Google

Classroom - A Guide for Families Accessing

Brightspace - A Guide for Families Student

Password & Device Webchat for Families (8:00 AM

- 5:00 PM Monday-Friday)

STEM is a focus area for students at

Henry Kelsey. We are so fortunate to

have Mr. Ho leading the charge!

Ms MacInnis has provided this

enrichment activity for young women

in Grade 7-12. On May 27th, you can

sign up as a family to watch this

Career Discovery Expo.

Did you know that the OECD states

that globally over a million jobs will

be available in STEM in the coming

decade. Now is the time to start

exploring and learning to see if

something sparks your interest!

The Math Department is excited to announce the launch of two

new Google Sites to support Mathematics at the TDSB. See

links below!

TDSB Mathematics for Families is a Google Site designed for

families and features resources and interactive weekly mental

math challenges.

Be sure to bookmark the TDSB Mathematics for Families

Google sites and visit often as we will continue to update the

site with relevant resources and content throughout the year.