I met with Grade 5 on Monday for a workshop about finding media balance. They are only a few months away from middle school, and when that starts, a big part of the social life of a tween moves online. But how much time they devote to social media, video games, and youtube, should really … Continue reading Helping Students Find a Healthy Tech and Life Balance
Today students were introduced to the concept of a Digital Footprint. We used the example of tracks left by animals and how we can use our own deductive capabilities to infer quite a lot about an animal based on its tracks. The same is true for us when we go online. The sites we visit, … Continue reading What is a Digital Footprint?
The OJCS is incredibly proud of all of our students and teachers who put in a big effort for their classroom book tallies. As a school, we read over 6300 books in English, French and Hebrew!!! The OJCS has never had so many books in circulation. I am very excited to announce that the entire … Continue reading The OJCS Rocked the Reading Challenge!!
“Don’t believe everything you read” parents often scold their kids, and we are giving them the skills to do exactly that! Grade 2 came for a visit to learn about how to use critical thinking and the 5 W’s (who, what, when, where and why) when evaluating if information on a website is credible or … Continue reading You’re Never Too Young to Start Thinking Critically