More pictures by tomorrow!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
EQAO - Evil Questions Attack Ontario
This is what my daughter (she is eight) thinks that EQAO stands for!
It actually means, Education Quality and Accountability Office. Every year, the public school system students take this exam.........to assess their skill level in reading, writing and math.
Grades three, six, nine and ten students have to take the test and it is administered end May and beginning June. The students do not study for these tests, but take them for the Government to assess the schools and how well they are teaching the curriculum to the students. This allows for improvement in weak areas and to help pinpoint which schools need extra resources. This occurs when the majority of students are from different backgrounds and may not have English as a first language.
You can check www.eqao.com
The website gives you all the test details and you can also download the previous years question papers to use as practice lessons. Click on the Parent Resources button to get into the page for downloading the questions.
As I have a son in grade 6 and a daughter in grade 3, both my kids are taking the EQAO this year. The results should be out by October. Will let you know more about how the results are tabulated when I get them.
Until then........good luck to all you grade3, 6, 9 and 10 students!!
It actually means, Education Quality and Accountability Office. Every year, the public school system students take this exam.........to assess their skill level in reading, writing and math.
Grades three, six, nine and ten students have to take the test and it is administered end May and beginning June. The students do not study for these tests, but take them for the Government to assess the schools and how well they are teaching the curriculum to the students. This allows for improvement in weak areas and to help pinpoint which schools need extra resources. This occurs when the majority of students are from different backgrounds and may not have English as a first language.
You can check www.eqao.com
The website gives you all the test details and you can also download the previous years question papers to use as practice lessons. Click on the Parent Resources button to get into the page for downloading the questions.
As I have a son in grade 6 and a daughter in grade 3, both my kids are taking the EQAO this year. The results should be out by October. Will let you know more about how the results are tabulated when I get them.
Until then........good luck to all you grade3, 6, 9 and 10 students!!
Update on our dvd player repair..post of Feb 14th
If you go back to my post of Feb 14th.......you'll understand this better........but basically our Samsung dvd player stopped working after just six months!
After Best Buy, where we bought it from, told us that we would have to send the player to Samsung by UPS (which Samsung paid for) we did just that. Three months we waited for no news........and then you will never guess what happened!!
We got a knock on our door, and when I opened it.......there was a UPS guy there with a HUGE box. I first thought he's come to the wrong house or it was some equipment we ordered for our business that we forgot about.
The 'box' turned out to be a brand new Home Theatre system from Samsung as they could not repair our dvd player!! So now we have one working dvd player and TWO sets of home theatre system speakers!
Yea!
After Best Buy, where we bought it from, told us that we would have to send the player to Samsung by UPS (which Samsung paid for) we did just that. Three months we waited for no news........and then you will never guess what happened!!
We got a knock on our door, and when I opened it.......there was a UPS guy there with a HUGE box. I first thought he's come to the wrong house or it was some equipment we ordered for our business that we forgot about.
The 'box' turned out to be a brand new Home Theatre system from Samsung as they could not repair our dvd player!! So now we have one working dvd player and TWO sets of home theatre system speakers!
Yea!
What's up in Canada...besides Victoria day?
Queen Victoria
If you are in Canada in the month of May........you will notice a holiday on the Calendar....that may strike you as being slightly strange. The Monday on or before May 24th is Victoria day and depending on which part of Canada you are in........along with Saturday and Sunday, you have a long weekend off! This means the start of summer to many, garage sales, and of course gardening and doing your lawn. The Victoria day weekend is also when many Canadians take off for camping grounds, visiting family or just chilling out at home.
According to Wikipedia:
Victoria day celebrates the birthday of the current Canadian Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. However, the date does not change with the change of monarch, instead it is set on the birthday of Queen Victoria, the Canadian Monarch at the time of Canadian Confederation and establishment of dominion status in 1867. Her birthday being May 24th, 1819.
Alexandrina Victoria, was the only child of Edward, Duke of Kent and Victoria Maria Louisa of Saxe-Coburg. The Duke and Duchess of Kent wanted the name Victoria but her uncle, George IV, insisted that she be named Alexandrina after her godfather, Tsar Alexander I of Russia. ( I guess Victoria day sounds better than Alexandrina day!!)
Victoria day is a statutory holiday in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec (coincides with National Patriotes Day), Saskatchewan, and Yukon.
It is not a statutory holiday in the eastern maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
This year, 2009, Victoria day fell on May 18th. Wow, what a weekend..........we saw bikers out....kids playing in shorts outside and lots of people out enjoying the nice warm weather! We also saw lines and lines of people shopping for lawn equipment, plants and fertilizers........yes, the annual, 'who has the best lawn on the street' competition has unofficially started. May the best green thumb win!
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