Our Student-Led Conferences were a HUGE success! I am so pleased with all the hard work that my students put into these conferences and a big thanks to all the parents for coming out and engaging in your child’s learning. I’d encourage you to keep supporting your children as they strive to reach their goals in each subject area 🙂

On Tuesday, I will be out at a workshop and Ms. Livingstone will be spending the day with my class 🙂

Here’s what’s happening inside our classroom this week:

Grade 5

French- This week, we will return to our regular dictées, with a section of work completed in class each day and another for homework. This week we will be looking at “le passé compose”-the past verb tense. This is a very important verb tense as it allows us to write and speak about events that happened in the past.

In reading this week, we will finally get a chance to start our book clubs. Students will be responsible to read a section of their book each day and complete a small activity to share during their next group meeting. In addition, we will begin to work on our new reading goals 🙂

In writing, we will finish up with our recipes and will move on to starting to create a text using the past tense.

In math, we will finish up our work on area and perimeter. Additionally, we will continue to review our “flashback” concepts. Based on the results of our quiz, I have created some resources for each student to use at home to help with those concepts that may be difficult for them. We will also continue to work on these concepts in class with our “flashback”  questions and classes.

Grade 7 and 8 Science

This week, we will be exploring the particle theory as it relates to changes in temperature and looking at how certain substances can change through the three states of matter based on changes in temperature.

Have a wonderful week and a safe and happy March Break!

Madame April Walker