January 4th
Welcome to two new students today Kayla and Cristian :)
We had a bit of a silly day today as I spluttered and coughed (I am not contagious!) through Math and one of my loyal students tried to put me out of my misery during Phys. Ed. Want to learn more? Then read on for a day in the life of an intermediate teacher. LOL
Homework or "stuff to finish at home"
Math 7 complete activities # 6,8 and 9 for tomorrow on adding integers
Spelling List #3 students voted for a Friday test
Socials projects anything that advances the research/note taking for your project would be helpful but please remember to bring it to school for class time (and show and tell for Mrs. J.) tomorrow
Also, if you missed the language worksheets on Monday take a few minutes to 'fill in the blanks' :)
Reminders
remember to bring instruments for Band
Honour Band practice Thursdays (and 1-2pm Friday afternoon starting next week)
Boy's Basketball meet tomorrow at lunch
General Day
Daily French- I was impressed at the recall of the French phrases the students have become familiar with. First Ashley did a fabulous job of pronouncing her French phrases while doing the morning announcements and then my students managed to translate the following into English
Ce matin il y a une classe de la musique avec mademoiselle Sorban. Parce qu'il y a un orage, il pleut tres fort aujourd'hui. C'est mercerdi, le quatrieme janvier.
C'est magnifique, n'est ce pas?
Spelling Test # 3 (list # 3) again impressed with the quiet study time. Voted for one more day- test Friday instead of tomorrow
Socials research time for working towards the project
Band
Math 7
Introduction to integers continued- checked and corrected the last page of the booklet in which students were to compare and order integers. Some did the compare activity backwards and had the correct greater than/less than signs but forgot to compare using the FIRST number in the pair so they had it incorrect (but not because they didn't understand the greater//less than sign) due to misreading the number pair. No biggie just reviewed the correct procedure for comparing- ordering results were great.
Today we started the concept of ADDing integers and using a reference sheet which provides samples and a booklet form the Math Makes Sense series which shows very clearly the connection between math and science using atoms: using electrons and protons to determine the net charge (ions) of atoms for Sodium, Chlorine, Oxygen etc.
Some students are always amazed to discover the connections between math and science!
I had a bit of a coughing fit during one of my class presentations- thank goodness for a water bottle. I had to assure the students that it was water I was drinking! Inquiring minds need to know...
The students found it quite amusing that I had not much of a voice left after so no more explanations and they were grateful just to get the work on the booklet started!!
Silent Reading- pretty good.
I distributed the Canspell booklets to every student thanks to Mrs. Sotham who prepared a class set.
Our annual Spelling Bee will be held Thursday, January 19th at 1pm. This year because we have so many students at the school, our procedure will be to hold a class spelling bee first to determine the top 3 spellers who will then be entered into the school bee. We have to register the winner January 20th for the next level of competition. This will be the sixth year that we have participated in the Canspell spelling bee. We will decide when we are holding our class spelling bee in the coming days.
December reading record draw was won by Autumn who will have a free pick from this month's TRC Scholastic book flyer. Our Jan Scholastic orders are due mid January for those who may be interested.
French Aventures C
today I distributed the textbook for this program and explained to the students how each 'tour' works. I am confident that the students have enough of a working vocabulary that I can introduce aural and oral French activities. Some of the work for this series of French books is on tape and has to be carefullyy listened to. It will introduce a new level of second language skills. They seemed to be interested and excited about the songs (Oh no, what was I thinking?)
Phys Ed
Passing drills first- students in a circle- 2 basketballs- interesting how difficult some students found this ball passing activity. We will continue to work at it until we get better. The idea is that we practice passes with a basketball- today we featured the chest pass- students follow the same pattern of whom they throw the ball to from one side of the circle to the other so that another basketball can be introduced. When it works, it looks like a class game of 'keep up' (juggling almost). It demands student use passing skills, catching skills and attention skills. Guess what- we weren't so good today!! Practice....practice....practice
Game of Bench ball- a whole class game finished our session. The students seemed to enjoy it.
One student managed to nail me on the side of the head with a ball (I think it was accidentally :)) but after that I thought that I'd be better to join in than stand by being a 'dummy'. Then I started to become a real target!! Sheesh...I feel like Rodney Dangerfield (no respect)
Personal Planning
We used our Teenage Survival booklets to introduce the upcoming Drug and Alcohol program lessons that we will be undertaking. I told the students about a CBC story I had heard on the radio today about a young woman (Vancouver) who has had a difficult time coping with addiction. She was speaking out to other young people about her experiences which started with someone offering her a party pill.
Novel tried to finish the day with a chapter of Word Nerd but I lost my voice (it went all weird) and even the microphone couldn't help so the students basically told me to be quirt and let one of them go over the work for tomorrow- gotta love that :)
More fun and excitement tomorrow. Have a good night.'Mrs. J.
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