International Dot Day today!🔵 Started the day by reading “The Dot” by Peter Reynolds, tuned into a live Flip event interviewing the author, and ended with a “dot” themed art project! Don’t forget to “MAKE YOUR MARK” ✏️ #InternationalDotDay Thames Valley DSB MsField MaryWrightPS

Every child matters ! This week and every week, we are ensuring that our staff, students and community are engaging in this learning !@MWrightMustangs Jeff Bruce

Intermediate students reading “Phylis’ Orange Shirt” and supporting conversations in kindergarten. MaryWrightPS orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story.… Jeff Bruce

Our LST team sharing tiered interventions. What students consistently require more time or support for their learning ? What tracking tools could I use to monitor progress ? MaryWrightPS Jeff Bruce

The world of Gr1/2 is pretty magical at MaryWrightPS! Caught this Gr2 showing patience and leadership to a multilingual Gr1 during a math game! Thames Valley DSB tvdsbmath TVDSBmath @MissRedick

Morning meeting: Our Educational Assistant team learning about ABA strategies: key learning “Positive reinforcement is used to increase desirable behaviour, teach new skills, motivate students and increase alternative behaviours” MaryWrightPS Jeff Bruce SpecialEd_tvdsb

Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping strengthens phonemic awareness while simultaneously building an association of sounds to the spellings of words. It helps to bridge the brain’s phonological and orthographic processors to strengthen learning and recall.⁦MaryWrightPS⁩

Difficult topics and conversations are so important for our students MaryWrightPS Thank you Leroy from LUSO Community Services for guiding us through them.

We are grateful for this amazing team!

Say it, chop it, write it …MaryWrightPS carlee stewart

Student vs teacher volleyball game was lots of fun and created lots of positive school spirit, sportsmanship, cheering and competitiveness. MaryWrightPS

“Decoding is the secret sauce to skilled reading. It's the ability to USE all the foundational skills to achieve fluent reading.” Today out FDK and primary educators spent time learning about how, when and why to use Decodable texts TVDSBLiteracy Jeff Bruce MaryWrightPS

Such an amazing team invested in learning Jeff Bruce

LSTs doing a spec Ed spotlight at our staff meeting, to continue to build staff capacity ! MaryWrightPS

We are so lucky MaryWrightPS to be able to provide breakfast for up to 60 students every morning thanks to some fabulous EAs. Starting the day off right!

When you have the right staff, right students, right volunteers and the right parents T & F Day is a success!!!!! Thank you to everyone who helped make this day great! MaryWrightPS

I am so PROUD! Look at the progression with my students with their Words Their Way assessment 😄😄😄 Small and whole groups daily practice on specific skills is showing that is works! 👌🏼 Thames Valley DSB TVDSBLiteracy MaryWrightPS

Prolonged screen time can impact delayed brain development, depression and anxiety, poor sleep and fatigue and behavioural and social issues (feeling socially disconnected).