Happy New Year everyone! I hope that all of you had a relaxing holiday and are ready for 2013! Heres whats coming up.
English: we have begun a novel study, Ken Oppels's "Airborn". We have read chap 1, students are working on Chap 1 response questions due: Tuesday, Jan 15.
Social Studies: before the break we began to look at early Rome. The Rise of Rome Package is due Thursday, Jan 10th.
Thanks again to all the students and parents that participated in our Christmas Brunch and Gift exchange, we had some great laughs and good food.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
January 10, 2013
Welcome back!
We trust you all had a relaxing time, and I have heard that many of you are very happy to have your kids back with us!
In Mr. Martin's English class, we have just written the Cathy Peters Reading Assessment today. This will give me a good chance to see where your son/daughter is in terms of reading and comprehension levels. The students are going to start an independent novel project, and will be making oral presentations (book reviews) during this term.
In Science, both Mr. Martin and Mrs. Wocknitz's classes will be writing a chapter 2 exam OR creating a project to demonstrate their knowledge. Both of these are due next Wednesday or Thursday. We are currently looking at the respiratory and circulatory systems of the human body, and will be making life size cutouts of these and other systems over the next few weeks.
In Socials, Mr. Martin's class is now looking at the fall of the Roman Empire, and will be hosting a sword fighting contest on Thursday. We will NOT be using real swords, but will be using life size shields and padded wooden dowels, as well as hockey helmets.
Please ask your child about the next set of interviews at the middle of term 2, called "Student Led Conferences." The students will be collecting work samples to show you their progress, and the entire conference will be led by the students. The teachers are only there to assist, and will not be holding typical Parent-Teacher interviews this term.
We trust you all had a relaxing time, and I have heard that many of you are very happy to have your kids back with us!
In Mr. Martin's English class, we have just written the Cathy Peters Reading Assessment today. This will give me a good chance to see where your son/daughter is in terms of reading and comprehension levels. The students are going to start an independent novel project, and will be making oral presentations (book reviews) during this term.
In Science, both Mr. Martin and Mrs. Wocknitz's classes will be writing a chapter 2 exam OR creating a project to demonstrate their knowledge. Both of these are due next Wednesday or Thursday. We are currently looking at the respiratory and circulatory systems of the human body, and will be making life size cutouts of these and other systems over the next few weeks.
In Socials, Mr. Martin's class is now looking at the fall of the Roman Empire, and will be hosting a sword fighting contest on Thursday. We will NOT be using real swords, but will be using life size shields and padded wooden dowels, as well as hockey helmets.
Please ask your child about the next set of interviews at the middle of term 2, called "Student Led Conferences." The students will be collecting work samples to show you their progress, and the entire conference will be led by the students. The teachers are only there to assist, and will not be holding typical Parent-Teacher interviews this term.
Friday, December 21, 2012
December 21, 2012
Enjoy the holiday break!
The Green Team Teachers would like to extend their greetings for the season, and wish you all safe travels if you are heading out of town for the Christmas break. We wanted to share a few photos of the students' creations with our snow sculptures yesterday.
The Green Team Teachers would like to extend their greetings for the season, and wish you all safe travels if you are heading out of town for the Christmas break. We wanted to share a few photos of the students' creations with our snow sculptures yesterday.
A creative turtle!
Artistic interpretation of Mdm Wocknitz and Mr. Martin??
An exploding volcano
A Christmas tree complete with decorations
A glowing fireplace
One of a series of snow angels
Sunday, December 16, 2012
last week of classes before Christams
Welcome everyone to the final week of classes before the Christmas break. The students of Green Team have asked for a fun day on Friday, and in order to keep the costs down, we as the teachers, decided to rent the Centenial Theatre and show a movie in the morning. After that, we plan to have a series of Improv Theatre acts, which proved very popular last year. We are also hoping to cook a hot dog lunch for all the students, and then dismiss them for the dance at 12:20.
Mr. Martin's English class:
We have spent the last week or so practicing with nouns. We were learning about how to properly put the apostrophe in place for posessive nouns, as well as the correct form of proper and common nouns, as well as singular and plural nouns
Mr. Martin's Socials:
We worked on taking notes from videos related to the Roman Empire. This week we will be looking at Roman Aqueducts
Mr. Martin's Science:
We have almost completed our study of chapter 2, Microscopic Organisms. The students will have a choice of writing a test on the material, or producing a writeup/poster on each of the main ideas in the unit.
Mr. Martin's English class:
We have spent the last week or so practicing with nouns. We were learning about how to properly put the apostrophe in place for posessive nouns, as well as the correct form of proper and common nouns, as well as singular and plural nouns
Mr. Martin's Socials:
We worked on taking notes from videos related to the Roman Empire. This week we will be looking at Roman Aqueducts
Mr. Martin's Science:
We have almost completed our study of chapter 2, Microscopic Organisms. The students will have a choice of writing a test on the material, or producing a writeup/poster on each of the main ideas in the unit.
Friday, December 7, 2012
Mr.Poirier's Div07
Report Cards will be sent home today, Dec 7th - please have your son/daughter return their signed envelope next week. As I signed the reports and scanned over the marks from Div07 I am very pleased with how our students did term 1. Over half of the Div07 students received an academic award for either Achievement, Effort or Principals list. Congratulations to you Div07 for a successful start to the 2012-2013 year, and more importantly, congratulations to you as parents and guardians for encouraging and monitoring your child's academic progress. Keep it up Div07!!
English: We will complete our short stories unit before the holiday break. To Build a Fire responses are now due. The Hockey Sweater News article will also be due next week, Wednesday Dec 12th.
Social Studies: We are now starting a brief unit on early Roman Civilization before we move onto the Medieval Europe Unit after Xmas break. Students can expect a quiz on mapping, determining Lat/Long on a map, various map terms we have covered and identifying elevations on a topographic map before the break.
The interview with a Viking presentations are now complete. Students had some very interesting interviews and demonstrated their knowledge of what they learned in a fun and creative way. Thank you to all the parents who assisted in the making/promotion (IE;feeding other kids who stayed over to shoot the interview!) of the interviews.
These last 2 weeks are going to be very busy, hang on and keep your hands inside the ride at all times.
English: We will complete our short stories unit before the holiday break. To Build a Fire responses are now due. The Hockey Sweater News article will also be due next week, Wednesday Dec 12th.
Social Studies: We are now starting a brief unit on early Roman Civilization before we move onto the Medieval Europe Unit after Xmas break. Students can expect a quiz on mapping, determining Lat/Long on a map, various map terms we have covered and identifying elevations on a topographic map before the break.
The interview with a Viking presentations are now complete. Students had some very interesting interviews and demonstrated their knowledge of what they learned in a fun and creative way. Thank you to all the parents who assisted in the making/promotion (IE;feeding other kids who stayed over to shoot the interview!) of the interviews.
These last 2 weeks are going to be very busy, hang on and keep your hands inside the ride at all times.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Wednesday December 5, 2012
English-Martin: After viewing several of the writing examples from the class, I have decided to spend several classes on punctuation. We have gone through capitalization rules, and use of proper and common nouns. We spent today working on plural nouns and what they end in (s, es, ies)
Math- The grade 7 boys had a brief quiz on converting fractions to decimals
Science- both division 5 and 6 should have the chapter 2 vocabulary handed in.
Socials- Mr. Martin's class has been viewing a few videos on early Roman culture. They should be able to explain why Rome became such a large empire, some of the rulers of the empire, and what happened to a country if they lost in a war to Rome.
Math- The grade 7 boys had a brief quiz on converting fractions to decimals
Science- both division 5 and 6 should have the chapter 2 vocabulary handed in.
Socials- Mr. Martin's class has been viewing a few videos on early Roman culture. They should be able to explain why Rome became such a large empire, some of the rulers of the empire, and what happened to a country if they lost in a war to Rome.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Monday November 26, 2012
Wow, this is a very busy week for some students. Many students are having one last chance to hand in major projects for marking. In Mr. Martin's class, end of novel projects are due this Thursday, both science classes have the chapter 1 test on Wednesday or Thursday, and some students needed to turn in their Viking story.
Science: We will have the test this week, and then start learning about how cells combine to make tissue, tissue combines to make organs, and organs combine to make a system.
English: All students should be done reading the novel by now, and finishing off their models, menus, interviews, and other projects of thier choice for the end of the novel assignment.
Socials: Today we started our look at the ancient Roman empire.
Science: We will have the test this week, and then start learning about how cells combine to make tissue, tissue combines to make organs, and organs combine to make a system.
English: All students should be done reading the novel by now, and finishing off their models, menus, interviews, and other projects of thier choice for the end of the novel assignment.
Socials: Today we started our look at the ancient Roman empire.
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