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.

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

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.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.

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.