Wednesday, June 13th

Some sunshine today . Yeah!

No new homework
concentrate on completing the work already underway

Reminders
Socials Greek Brochures and Spend a Million projects due tomorrow (unless other arrangements were made)
Band practice and concert with GHE in the afternoon
Sports Day Friday (hoping for a bit of sunshine or at least a dry day!?)

Day's happenings
no music/band class today due to concert tomorrow

Language Arts
Finally found a chunk of time for the roots and etymology work (Unit 2 last week) Unit three this week. And vocab-u-lous C and D vocabulary activities. It is interesting to observe how some students have difficulty trusting themselves with the task and need the re-assurance that they are 'doing it right'. I would like to think this activity over the last couple of weeks has allowed them to see how the definitions of the words we use  can be predictable even if they are unknown words to us at first. Dictionaries are 'old school' but have been our 'lifeline' for the final say on the definitions that we have pieced together using the meanings of the roots and suffixes.

Math 7
Practice Test for Chapter 3
Final review test using the pp. 116-117 unit end test printed in the text book.
Students joined Mrs Dawson in the computer lab (spend a million or brochures) once they were completed the test and I stayed with the students who were in need of more time to complete the test activites (12 questions pertaining to angles, lines and finding area and perimeter

Mind Up presentation with Mrs Paxton

Silent Reading

French -er verb endings and aural/oral activity in responding to the personal pronouns and the appropriate verb endings. Follow up tomorrow (between band practices and performance)

Phys Ed. Split Gym floor hockey and basketball.

Where in the World?
Game of listening and thinking with partners.
How far can I make one bag of Skittles go?
We used white boards and partnered our brain cells to identify the city, country and monuments that were being described in short passages. Many of the monuments we have studied together this year and just a little bit of memory and geographical knowledge meant a mini treat of one or two skittle each! It worked like a charm and the students seemed to enjoy it. Some of the places were: the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, Stonehenge, Great Britain (some students wrote it as Stone Hedge which I thought was amusing :)), the Coliseum in Rome, Italy and Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada and Mt. Everest in Nepal. I managed to drain a whole bag of mini treats and everyone managed one or two correct answers.

Remember instruments and music sheets tomorrow!!
Have a good restful evening.
Mrs. J.