I hope that everyone had a fantastic break and extra-long Easter weekend. Spring has most definitely arrived! I cannot believe that we are in our final term of the school year! The next few months will most likely fly by, but there is still a lot of learning left to take place 🙂

Here is a snapshot into some of that learning, as we navigate through the next few weeks together…

French-Through our unit anthology unit “L’art de image” we have discussed the power of images and words. This week we will work to draft some calligramme poetry, taking advantage of our knowledge of the power of images and the fact that April is poetry month.

Students will also have the chance to revisit their “texte ludique,” taking the time to revise and edit their work and put into practice many of the goals they set out for their writing before the break.

Our work will wrap up on “les verbes pronominaux” with an audio assessment, where students will have the chance to use these verbes in oral discussions to show their understanding of how they are conjugated.

Social Studies-With the storm days, students didn’t have the chance to present their humanist debates before the break. This week we will finish those presentations, preparing for our large debate on who was the greatest humanist of the Renaissance. We will also start our exploration of the rise of urbanization and capitalism during the Renaissance and explore how Italy was governed throughout this time period.

Science- Over the next few days we hope to complete our learning stations for our unit on Space. Once they have visited each centre, students will be given time to review their duotang, revising their work and completing any stations that they didn’t get to finish. We will then prepare for our summative assessment of these outcomes.

Grade 9 Science-If all goes as planned and if we have no more interruptions, we will finally wrap up our biology unit with our dissection of a fetal pig. Once this is completed, we will begin our chemistry unit. A review of the Periodic Table of the Elements will be the starting point of Chapter 6, as we discuss the differences between elements and compounds, review the particle theory, the three states of matter and the differences between homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures.

Grade 7 Science-As we move ahead in our biology unit, this week we will continue to look at sexual and asexual reproduction in living organisms, in particular; the flower.

Have a marvelous last few days of this week and a wonderful start to the next one!

Mme MacNevin