Monday and the students are vibrating or are away sick!!!
I knew the snow would have a difficult time staying put!! I watched it creep slowly down the local mountains last week until it needed to visit the town!.
It is snowing again now and while we enjoyed the lovely sunshine this weekend, there is more snow to come!We are expecting to get another 5cm of snow overnight and the temperatures are going to dip a bit in the next few days to a low of -10.
Thursday night took me by surprise...I couldn't even get home right away on Thursday night after my curling game. Apparaently the plough was 'stuck' and I had to wait until it was safe according to the Squamish District road maintenance but I managed a bit later with my 4-wheel drive function to make my way slowly up Skyline and the number of vehicles all over the Boulevard was the real problem- whose idea was it to put the roundabouts there in the first place?
Homework
Unit 19 spelling test this Thursday
Unit 19 spelling activity (received 15 today)
A personal reminder went out today to all students who have not handed in spelling activity work for previous units (Units 16-18)
Science- a personal reminder was also provided to the students who are behind in the science assignments
General Day
Started with a share about the boy's basketball team win in Whistler on Thursday last week - they did a fabulous job and managed to win another game rather descisively. Way to go, boys :)
Hot Lunch $$$ and orders collected
I shared my Friday Pro-D day experience with my students. The keynote address was Dr. Art Hister who was very entertaining and did an upbeat presentation about general health and longevity and what habits are recommended - I really enjoyed it and his jokes for such a serious topic. He managed to make it funny and interesting.
The workshop I attended was about math for grades 7-10 and it too was very informative, interesting and imsightful. I will need some time to get my head around the discussion which was generated by my colleagues and share more with my parents and students about teaching mathematics and the importance of skill development prior to junior high courses! I can't stress enough the need for confident basic arithmetic skills!
Quick translation of our daily French statement (phrase francais) which has them recalling the basic words for the date, the weather and the season. C'est le dernier semaine fevrier et il neige. Il fait froid mais le soleil brille. (please forgive the missing accents)
Next we started as we normally do with a return of Unit 18 and a prep and spelling activity for Unit 19.
Another chapter of the novel , DGC, Ch 6 in which Violet does her best to scare off her mom's new boyfriend who visits for dinner- it doesn't help much that his last name is Weiner!! The students seemed to enjoy it.
For math today, we distributed atlases- together we looked at land mass of the world's continents and calculated the total land mass after ordering the continents by size and rounding approx. land mass by continent. It was an interesting activity and I was surprised that the students were finding out things that they didn't know about the world land distribution by continent. I intend to blend practical geographic work with math concepts this week. They tie in very nicely to our science unit on Pangea and the formation continental plates (Earth's Crust) Ch 8.
But first I need to get everyone up to speed on the missing science!
DEAR time was not good today! Very difficult to get students to settle to read without silly interruptions! Hopefully, the Monday jitters will calm down and tomorrow will be better. I live in hope.
The March TRC catalogue for Scholastic was distributed today- the Feb order is sent.
Science - time to catch up - only 10 students were ready to move into the chapter 8 lab activity and they got it started together today (Creating a map of the world piecing together the continental fault lines). The rest of the class has one or more of the previous booklets to complete for the Science activities we have been working on recently
6 students to complete the booklet: Model of the Earth
10 students to complete the booklet: How Rocks are Formed
18 students to complete a Chapter 7 review and vocabulary activity
The class was extra noisy and focus was difficult as I said I hope the Monday nervous energy and strange vibrations are more settled by tomorrow. Today was a challenge in patience and preseverence- MINE!
Physical Education was just as disappointing to be honest. Lots of time wasted and issues getting into the teams we have been in since forever, lots of questioning the rules that have been the same forever, some students unable to satnd still (spinning like tops or throwing themselves around!) and genrally I think we managed 10 or maybe 12-15 minutes max. of actual play time!!! So frustrating but what are ya gonna do? Who ya gonna call...? Hormone Busters? 'Hormones R us' unfortunately!
Yeah for 3pm Dismissal
Everyone go home and get some sleep and rest up for Tuesday!!
Have a nice calm evening and get your science caught up for heavens sake!!
Mrs. J.
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