Well today begins our last full week for the 2017-2018 school year. Wow! I can’t believe how fast time flew by! It will be sad to say goodbye to such amazing students, but I know everyone is looking forward to summer vacation 🙂

If your son/daughter hasn’t already handed in their permission form for our trip to Sandspit, they should do so as soon as possible.

Everyone is invited to join the Gulf Shore family on Wednesday, June 20th from 4:00-6:00pm as we celebrate Ms. Ready as she begins her retirement.

Now here is a look at what we will be working on over the next few days…..

French-We have finished our novel “Aller/retour” and our final reflections are in progress. This story made for many great conversations over the past few weeks and I’m sure this week will be no exception.

We have also finished up our song lyrics for the verb aller and expressions using the verb avoir. This week we will get a chance to share our masterpieces with other immersion classes. We will also have a final session sharing with our Grade 4 Book Buddies.

As always, we will spend lots of time practicing our oral language skills, as we discuss ways to keep our French language up over the summer months. We will reflect on our learning this year, as we create goals for our reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in the fall. Students will also work to create a vision board that will serve as a starting point for discussions once classes resume in September.

Social Studies-This week we will finish up our discussions on New France and the Acadian Deportation.

Science- As work continues in our technology unit, this week students will finish up the construct of their windmills and begin to test them in preparation for our contest next week, where we will see which group can generate the most power with their prototype.

Grade 9 Science-Today we will dissect a cow’s eye, as we wrap up of unit on optics. Discussions will then shift to a quick study of space and how distance is measured in our galaxies. Finally, we will spend our last few classes together building the prototype of a mechanical limb that will combine our outcomes in both technology and biology that we have studied this year.

Grade 7 Science-We are now well into our unit on technology. This week students will plan, design, and create a house that is capable of withstanding an earthquake. This project combines outcomes from both our technology unit and our unit on the Earth’s crust.

Have a wonderful week!

Mme MacNevin