It's the first day of May tomorrow.
Where is the sunshine? I'm marginally better today having had a weekend to let my anti-biotic kick in!
Ah, spring time!
Homework
overdue biography posters
French wardrobes (due tomorrow's class)
Unit 5 spelling test Thursday (absolutely insist that some students rewrite Unit 4 on Thursday too)
be familiar with a 'favourite' mythological story from ancient Greece
Reminders
finally remembered to distribute the Camp information letter and permission form for return next week
General Day
School Assembly
Impressive organization and set up of the 6/7 band for this morning's performance by our senior students. They were all where they needed to be with their instruments and music and they played three songs: La Bamba, Bandissimo and Rainbow Rock very well.
Our guests today were the CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind) and we were their first school in the promotion of the Shades of Fun fundraising venture that they are taking to schools in the province hoping to raise some funds to assist people who need assistance with sight difficulties. It has been no secret that the government has cut services that used to be funded and so I guess this is trying to help with the deficit.
The lady who brought her seeing-eye dog (Dusty) appealed to the audience to realize that when a dog is in harness it is working and to resist the attempt to pet/pat or distract the dog from its job. She said the dog really wants to please everyone and a change in the direction of the dog's focus can be a potential problem for her safety.
Spelling:
returned Unit 4 and shared the fact that the class average is 68% (last week it was 83%)
I appealed to students to continue word study for the tests. There is a reason why these words made the list as the most problematic for spelling in North America!!
Prepped Unit 5 words but so many are French influence that I will need to do another preparation activity for this week's words tomorrow.
Math 7
Ch 12 Working with Data
Ch 12.1 measures of central tendency, mode, median and range
Ch12.2 average (mean)
we reviewed the work we have covered so far looking at the various questions and solutions in the textbook and worked on two activities from each chapter in class.
We worked well today. Thanks to Mrs. Dawson for some in-class assistance.
Silent reading (not bad)
April reading records collected (draw before the end of day) Congratulations to Simi who won the April book draw.
Camp letters distributed and discussed BEFORE I forget
Socials Studies
Greek Mythology - the stories that have endured throughout generations of writing and story telling and film making!!! Think for example about the plots and monsters of J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling or Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson) to name but a few. I introduced a few of the best known and presented a web site called http://www.mrdonn.org/ which had abridged versions of lots of the Greek myths. Tomorrow I have a 'jigsaw' activity planned for reading and understanding some myths.
Library time for exchange or library choices for anyone who wanted it while the rest of us went to the computer lab.
Next we took this find your favourite story idea to the computer lab session and let everyone log on to the website for themselves. Students found and read some myths and then I asked that they surf the website a little more and most found the Greek games (not Olympic) but the little action games like the Athenians versus the Spartans etc.
I am sure finding some of the animated ads on sites very distracting to the point I could hardly find the actual website menu because it kept forwarding me to Google Ads. So annoying!
Anyway by the time we logged off and got back to class, did the reading record draw and cleaned up it was right on the bell.
Another day is done and a new month starts tomorrow! Before you know it ...it'll be June. Where's the sun?
Have a good night, Mrs. J.
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