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.

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.

Wednesday November 21, 2012

Mr. Martin's Class
Science:  Most of the 3-D models of plant and animal cells have come in.  I took a photo and printed it off for each one, and the students needed to staple it to their assessment sheet, and include the information on each part.  We are almost finished the chapter, and both classes will have a test on chapter 1 in the next week or two.

English:  The Viking stories are now late.  This was a "Game Day" activity, so the students know that this mark will be included into their term 1 report card mark.  The students are to have chosen an end of the novel activity from the list of over 15 choices.  Some students have chosen to create a meal using 2 food items mentioned in the novel, others have chosen to interview one of the characters, or even create a model of the island or the airship.  The students should be all finished reading the novel, and working on this project, which should come in November 30th.

Socials:  We are finishing up the last of the worksheets on Vikings, and moving into the study of ancient Rome

Art:  There are only approximately 5 classes left, and students are to have met with me to discuss their recent projects (carving/Tye Dye Tshirts/)

MR.POIRIER'S DIV 07

Report Cards already??!! Thats right, theyre just around the corner!  That said, students will notice that teachers will be asking for ALL overdue assignments and projects to be in by the end of this week. 

English: Short Stories Unit; The Sniper and Responses, A Secret for Two and Responses.  Now WAAAYY overdue (but I will still accept until the end of the week) the ABC story, and the Moose and the Sparrow responses.

Social Studies:  We are just about completed our Vikings Unit, with the final project being an assignment called 'Interview a Viking' where students are to use an electronic device of their own (Ipod, Smartphone, Video Cam, etc) and conduct an interview with a Viking - the criteria is a script of their interview (typed) and 8 factual questions and answers from the material they have learned over the unit.  Students will present their interview via a media player from the class computer onto the projector.  Students are asked to have checked their media/video file to be sure that it works on a PC format with video and audio.  They can bring the file in on a jump drive, email it to me at:

hpoirier@sd83.bc.ca

or post it on Youtube, Vimeo, or a social media site of their choice - however, this is a risky option that we have discussed if for whatever the internet is down when it comes to presentation time.

This Interview a Viking Project is due:  Tuesday, November 27th.