Friday March 30

AVID:  This is an excellent opportunity for those students wanting to learn organizational skills, note taking skills, etc.  Two teachers, including Green Team's very own Ms. McFarland, have taken extensive training to help students who desire to enroll in this program.  We used to run Academic Intervention where the staff and parents signed students up for this after school program, but we didn't always get the student "buy in".  We have just introduced the concept to students at yesterday's assembly, and we had over 20 students go to a lunch hour meeting to get more information.

Science:  Both classes will be done the mystery powder lab by Tuesday.  I have really enjoyed watching the students get hands on experience, and most have told me that they enjoy the change.  I am hoping to come up with a lab to test Acids and Bases of household chemicals, which will be a continuation of our chemistry section

 

 

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English:  Mr. Martin's class is just starting poetry, and trying to finish off the last of the individual novel presentations

Rick Hansen update:  Congratulations to our own student, Liam Flaten who has been chosen to be our representative to carry the 1 lb silver medal in the cross Canada relay.  Our leg of the relay will take place on Tuesday, come out and support our representative, as well as the 12 other students who were selected by their classmates as nominees for this event.

Socials:  Mr. Martin's class is almost 1/2 way done their debates on the Northern Gateway Pipeline, with the Pro side winning 3 out of 3 debates.  We have 4 more sets to go.

Math 7 Boys:  We will continue to review today and Monday for the unit 4 test, with a test hopefully on Tuesday morning.  This unit covers circles, parallelograms, triangles, as well as creating circle graphs.

Health and Career Ed: Madame Wocknitz has been working with both classes in researching skills and wages, and job opportunities for various jobs. They are creating a duotang of information for their jobs.

Welcome Back

I trust that your spring break was restfull.  We have hit the road running this week, and here is an overview of team green.

Math 7 BOYS- I was hoping to get the current unit done before the break, but we just ran out of time.  We are spending several days trying to master the concept of taking a word problem and converting it into fractions, decimals, percentage, as well as converting the decimal to degrees to create circle graphs.  I'd like to finish the unit this week, and have a test next week.  I have been assigning 1 question each night, but I have not been satisfied with the completion rate.

English-  Any of Mr. Martin's class who haven't turned in their Memoir are very late.  I won't return any until I get them all turned in.  We will be starting Poetry next, and the students will create their own poetry booklet.  I am hoping to combine the poetry with some grammar lessons, thanks to a resource from Mrs. Haywood-Farmer

Socials- today we are starting our debates on the Northern Gateway Pipeline.  We also have started a small mapping assignment on Mesopotamia

Science- both classes will be starting the 3rd chemistry "mystery powders" lab today.  Several students helped me inventory the new lab equipment we purchased for the lab, thank you.

PE- The students ran their second beep test and other physical fitness testing yesterday.  Most students improved the number of lenghts of the gym they could run.  With the warmer weather starting, we are anxious to return outside for activities such as tennis, road hockey, track and field, and flag football.