Thanks to all the parents who came out for Parent Teacher Interviews! It was so great to meet all of you and to see so many of you really shows me how committed you are to your child's education. We find as teachers, as the student gets older, the fewer parents we see. Thanks for being proactive and staying involved!!
English: My ABC story is now DUE! Short story "A Secret for Two" responses are DUE Friday, Oct 26th.
Dont forget to bring your Twoonie for Twoonie Tuesday, which runs all week!!
Students and Parents - be sure to check out the Haunted House Activities for Green Team - its our teams major fundraiser and all proceeds from helping out go directly to our team for field trips.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Thursday, October 18, 2012
THURS October 18
WE DAY
Today, many of our students are in Vancouver for the youth celebration at Rogers Arena. 1000's of young people from all across the province will be there to celebrate the power of young people!
Haunted House;
We still need many more student and adult helpers for this event. Contact Mr. Martin if you need more information
Parent Teacher Interviews
Hopefully, your child has brought home the form for you to pick a time for next Wednesday or Thursday. If not, please contact your teacher asap
English- Martin
The students worked on a Wanted Poster for the main villian in their novel. Final versions of the poster are due this Monday morning
Science-Martin
Mr. Martin gets to cut his own hair, many people were close to getting 100%, but no one quite got that much. Chapter 1 vocabulary was not done completely by many students. A very good understanding of vacabulary is essential to understanding the science material.
Foods Exploration
Unfortunately, we only had one response from a parent who had some ideas to share for some cultural craft/cooking idea. Mr. Martin will be teaching all the students for one term of explorations this year, and was hoping to use the foods room as well. Please ask your child about the letter I sent home last week.
Today, many of our students are in Vancouver for the youth celebration at Rogers Arena. 1000's of young people from all across the province will be there to celebrate the power of young people!
Haunted House;
We still need many more student and adult helpers for this event. Contact Mr. Martin if you need more information
Parent Teacher Interviews
Hopefully, your child has brought home the form for you to pick a time for next Wednesday or Thursday. If not, please contact your teacher asap
English- Martin
The students worked on a Wanted Poster for the main villian in their novel. Final versions of the poster are due this Monday morning
Science-Martin
Mr. Martin gets to cut his own hair, many people were close to getting 100%, but no one quite got that much. Chapter 1 vocabulary was not done completely by many students. A very good understanding of vacabulary is essential to understanding the science material.
Foods Exploration
Unfortunately, we only had one response from a parent who had some ideas to share for some cultural craft/cooking idea. Mr. Martin will be teaching all the students for one term of explorations this year, and was hoping to use the foods room as well. Please ask your child about the letter I sent home last week.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Mr.Poirier's (Div07) English and Socials Classes
October is half way over already! Wow time is flying by. Interim reports, Parent Teacher Interviews are scheduled for Oct 25-26 - watch this site and the LWMS page for updates and sign up times. However, if you ever have any questions or concerns please call me at the school or email me - hpoirier@sd83.bc.ca - I will return your message!
English: Div 07 continues to work on the Short Stories unit. We have just started a new assignment, The ABC story which will be due on Monday, Oct 22. On the Bridge and Moose and the Sparrow responses are now due.
Social Studies: We have begun to examine Maps and their components such as scale and projection. There will be a Canada Map Quiz (capitals and provinces) on Wed, Oct 17th.
Have a great weekend! Snows coming:)
English: Div 07 continues to work on the Short Stories unit. We have just started a new assignment, The ABC story which will be due on Monday, Oct 22. On the Bridge and Moose and the Sparrow responses are now due.
Social Studies: We have begun to examine Maps and their components such as scale and projection. There will be a Canada Map Quiz (capitals and provinces) on Wed, Oct 17th.
Have a great weekend! Snows coming:)
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
HCE (Health and Career Education) :
We are completing our Mission Statements in "Good Copy" form
(Due: Monday, October 15 - divisions 5 and 7; Tuesday, October 16 - division 6)
to put into our HCE Duotangs. Our next task is to re-write our tentative personal, academic and health goals into SMART goal format and so that they are relevant to our Mission Statements.
There are 2 hand-outs posted - we will have them in class, but just in case they walk away, or you would like to see what we are doing in class, check them out!
*** You can come and see our duotangs during Parent/Teacher Interviews! ***
HCE (Health and Career Education) :
We are completing our Mission Statements in "Good Copy" form
(Due: Monday, October 15 - divisions 5 and 7; Tuesday, October 16 - division 6)
to put into our HCE Duotangs. Our next task is to re-write our tentative personal, academic and health goals into SMART goal format and so that they are relevant to our Mission Statements.
There are 2 hand-outs posted - we will have them in class, but just in case they walk away, or you would like to see what we are doing in class, check them out!
*** You can come and see our duotangs during Parent/Teacher Interviews! ***
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Tuesday October 9, 2012
Martin-Science Today Madame Wocknitz class wrote their Science safety quiz. A few of them said that I am in danger of getting a hair cut designed by them if they get 100% on the test. Notice the intense concentration of some of their faces.
English-Mr. Martin's class is writing back "Advice Letters" from Dear Abby for their novel assignment. They also need to turn in a paragraph on why/why not they should be chosen as the class rep.
Art Explorations: Here are some of the students working on the "Art Rubbings" project for their exploration class with Mr. Martin. They needed to use a variety of colors and textures in their project. They will finish off this second art project of the term this Thursday.
Art Explorations: Here are some of the students working on the "Art Rubbings" project for their exploration class with Mr. Martin. They needed to use a variety of colors and textures in their project. They will finish off this second art project of the term this Thursday.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Thursday October 4th, 2012
Martin's Class
English- Students should be reading chapter 4-5 of the novel. Today I introduced a topic called "Dear Abby" They are writing as the main character to ask for assistance about not getting the job on the airship they were promised. Please give them some ideas and let them tell you about their character, what he may be thinking, feeling, and able to do about the issue
Math 7 boys- today we reviewed a homework sheet, and the boys gave me a self assessment of their work on the homework.
Explorations- I will be asking for some parent help in "hopefully" doing some cooking with the students. I want to take a look at 3-4 cultures and hope to get some parents/grandparents in to spend a day or two talking about their culture, and finding a couple food items to prepare, cook, eat and clean up within one hour....not much of a challenge there is it!
English- Students should be reading chapter 4-5 of the novel. Today I introduced a topic called "Dear Abby" They are writing as the main character to ask for assistance about not getting the job on the airship they were promised. Please give them some ideas and let them tell you about their character, what he may be thinking, feeling, and able to do about the issue
Math 7 boys- today we reviewed a homework sheet, and the boys gave me a self assessment of their work on the homework.
Explorations- I will be asking for some parent help in "hopefully" doing some cooking with the students. I want to take a look at 3-4 cultures and hope to get some parents/grandparents in to spend a day or two talking about their culture, and finding a couple food items to prepare, cook, eat and clean up within one hour....not much of a challenge there is it!
Health and Career Education
We did a "trust" exercise this week where we blind-folded a group member and verbally lead them through a series of obstacles. I requested they try to work with others they may not know well. Their feedback on the experience was insteresting! Many felt very trusting and others had some difficulty allowing others to lead them. It was also another opportunity to learn about themselves!
Here is a link to a blog that truly has a great description of Mission Statements for those still working towards their statement:
We did a "trust" exercise this week where we blind-folded a group member and verbally lead them through a series of obstacles. I requested they try to work with others they may not know well. Their feedback on the experience was insteresting! Many felt very trusting and others had some difficulty allowing others to lead them. It was also another opportunity to learn about themselves!
Here is a link to a blog that truly has a great description of Mission Statements for those still working towards their statement:
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Mr.Poirier's English 7/8
We have started our short stories unit and have covered 2 stories thus far, On the Bridge and The Moose and the Sparrow - Response Questions for both are DUE: Friday, Oct 5th.
Please keep checking this blog for Due dates and any other upcoming class events.
Remember: Friday is Hat Day in Div07, bring your favorite chapeau!
Code Word: POWDER
Please keep checking this blog for Due dates and any other upcoming class events.
Remember: Friday is Hat Day in Div07, bring your favorite chapeau!
Code Word: POWDER
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
MARTIN Tuesday October 2, 2012
English- We worked on vocab from chapter 3, and turned in all of the wanted posters. They should be reading chapter 4 of the novel now.
Science- Safety tests are on Friday (Martin) and Tuesday (Wocknitz) Tomorrow we will start looking at the characteristics of all living things.
Explorations- Mr. Martin's art group should now be all done their folding paper project, where we cut up two photos, and glued them into strips on opposite facing sides of a folded paper (it looks like a paper fan). This allows the "fan" to show 2 photos at once, simply by turning the fan to look at it from the opposite side of the fold. Most students started a sample photo of various rubbings of objects inside and outside of the building.
Science- Safety tests are on Friday (Martin) and Tuesday (Wocknitz) Tomorrow we will start looking at the characteristics of all living things.
Explorations- Mr. Martin's art group should now be all done their folding paper project, where we cut up two photos, and glued them into strips on opposite facing sides of a folded paper (it looks like a paper fan). This allows the "fan" to show 2 photos at once, simply by turning the fan to look at it from the opposite side of the fold. Most students started a sample photo of various rubbings of objects inside and outside of the building.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Mr. Martin's class
English: We are working on chapter 3 vocab (8 words) They need to write vocab, and use each word in a sentence. Everyone should have turned in their Dear Mom letter, and the poster for the Help Wanted Advertisement in due Tuesday
Math 7: We are working on basic algebra with simple variables and constants
Socials: Today we worked on questions 1-3 of the introductory contour assignment. We will have to spend more time converting cm to actual distances to properly understand how to use the "scale" of the maps
Haunted House: Any adults interested in helping with the Haunted House on October 27 and/or 31st, please let your homeroom teacher know
Science: Mr. Martin's class had a second day on practicing Metric conversions, as well as looking at some practice lab safety questions. The safety test will be at the end of this week.
Math 7: We are working on basic algebra with simple variables and constants
Socials: Today we worked on questions 1-3 of the introductory contour assignment. We will have to spend more time converting cm to actual distances to properly understand how to use the "scale" of the maps
Haunted House: Any adults interested in helping with the Haunted House on October 27 and/or 31st, please let your homeroom teacher know
Science: Mr. Martin's class had a second day on practicing Metric conversions, as well as looking at some practice lab safety questions. The safety test will be at the end of this week.
Health and Career Ed. (HCE)
We have been spending a lot of time on learning about ourselves, our values, what is important to us, how we want to be perceived and what inspires us. This is in preparation for creating a "MISSION STATEMENT" that encompasses what direction the students are heading and how! They will be asked to choose 3 goals that reflect their mission statement and are SMART (see document in list!). The 3 areas are: personal, health and academic.
As parents, it could be helpful to discuss these topics at home!
We have been spending a lot of time on learning about ourselves, our values, what is important to us, how we want to be perceived and what inspires us. This is in preparation for creating a "MISSION STATEMENT" that encompasses what direction the students are heading and how! They will be asked to choose 3 goals that reflect their mission statement and are SMART (see document in list!). The 3 areas are: personal, health and academic.
As parents, it could be helpful to discuss these topics at home!
Mr.Poirier's Div 07!
Welcome to October folks! Hopefully its as sunny as September was! or maybe......its gonna get cold and the snows coming!!
English 7/8: Just a reminder to all Div 07 students, the MMI (Me, Myself and I) projects are now due - still awaiting a few more projects. Get them in!
-On the Bridge Short Story responses are also due!
English 7/8: Just a reminder to all Div 07 students, the MMI (Me, Myself and I) projects are now due - still awaiting a few more projects. Get them in!
-On the Bridge Short Story responses are also due!
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