Happy birthday # 50 to my brother up in the 'hottest palce in the province', Kamloops- hope you're enjoying the heat :)
Had to run off to a meeting after school yesterday and didn't have time to post before the meeting; after the meeting, my mind was 'mush' and I didn't remember.
That's my excuse and I am sticking to it :)
Homework
nothing new but please read, just read your novels- find a quiet spot and a quiet moment and read like you'd like to complete the story
Reminders
We are gearing up for our Camp fundraiser- next Saturday May 3rd. The grade 6/7's are hosting a garage and bake sale for the annual Camp experience at the end of May.
On Friday afternoon we will be setting out the tables and having a donation drop off from 3:30-6pm. On Saturday sales open at 9am until 1pm. If you have a donation or a baked good that we can sell please consider helping us out or volunteering some time for a shift.
Information to come early next week.
Our last couple of days...
Friday 26th
presentation by Alex Wells- hoop dancer extraordinaire
an energetic and well received First Nations dancing performance
Science completed the DNA booklet together- discussed how the double helix shaped DNA molecules have all the genetic information we need to grow and how it has been used forensically to solve crime due to the fact that our DNA is unique. DNA combines millions of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosohorus and hydrogen molecules- pretty amazing stuff.
Math 7 was postponed today as the students completed the McCreary Health Survey under the supervision of Public Health Nurse, Jennifer
Silent Reading time (or art as some wanted to complete yesterday's project)
novels, incomplete activities, independent choices or art - busy and somewhat productive :)
Computers- used the internet to introduce Mr Donn's ancient civilizations website complete with some interactive learning games themed on Ancient Greece before free time for those who are madly trying to win the Third World Farmer game (why do they want to find 'cheats' for games? I don't understand what satisfaction cheating can bring!)
Mrs. Paxton addressed the student for the last part of the day with a pesentation on Cyberbullying and strategies for staying safe- two booklets were distributed one from Telus about Cell Phone Safety and the other from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection on Safety on the Internet
Clean up & dismissal
Have a great weekend
Mrs. J.
Thursday 25th was one of those days interrupted throughout for annual class pictures and our once a year panorama shot :) So if you saw us all milling around on the back field, that's what we were up to "Say 'Cheese'"!
Language/grammar- spelling activity- can you find the 20 spelling errors in the letter- corrected together
Novel time reading, thinking & answering the questions or creating a reader's response
Math 7 returned the redo quiz (2 students of 11 actually did worse second time around!!) most improved although a few are still having difficulty with the concept of finding the missing angle.
Due to class pictures math class was shorter so we chose to use the text to look at the key ideas that we have already learned and conducted a bit of a review.
Then it was Honour Band time!
Silent reading
French:
We completed the booklet and activities for praticing the conjugation of an -er verb (aimer)
Activites included: choosing the correct pronoun, chossing the correct version of the conjugation in a sentence, ordering sentences correctly in French and making a match between the French and the correct English.
Art 'Deconstruction' project
Using calendar pictures the students choose an activity from three offered (Billboard, geometric representation or weaving) and took apart a picture (or two) to reconstruct it again in a different creative format. The students really seemed to get into this project and some of the results are very effective.
Clean up (it was messy!) and Dismissal
That was Thursday.
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