The final week of May!!! I cannot believe that we have already arrived at this point. With only a month of learning left for the 2018-2019 school year, we still have a lot of accomplish, so I would remind my students that although summer is close, it is very important that they continue to put forth their best effort 🙂

A big thank you to the Grade 8 class for organizing a great day on Friday for our Children’s Wish Walk. Our Gulf Shore community once again raised a large amount of funds for this worthwhile cause. We can’t wait to do it again next year 🙂

Most of the remaining school weeks will be jammed packed. On Thursday, we will be treated to a fabulous performance from our elementary drama club entitled “Through the Looking Glass.” These young actors, musicians and singers have been working tirelessly for months to get their production ready and I can’t wait to see the finished result!

Let’s take a look at what else will be happening during our week together…

French-This week we will continue diving into our novel Aller/Retour. I’m looking forward to lots of great discussions, surrounding some of the books themes including multiculturalism and family violence.
We will also begin our second to last oral language production and comprehension assessments of the year, as we look ahead to setting goals for our final month of learning.

Science-This week, as we continue our chapter on engineering, students will finish researching and creating a model of a simple machine that they will then present to their peers. We will also move ahead on our wind turbine projects as we sketch out some possible models and discuss the pros and cons of creating each one.

Grade 9 Science-On Wednesday, students will write their chapter 6 assessment on the properties of matter. We will spend the first few classes of the week reviewing. A detailed study guide can be found on their Google Classroom page. Following the assessment we will begin discussions and experiments on physical and chemical transformations on matter, looking in particular at how these changes and reactions happen in our body as we refer back to our work on human body systems from earlier in the year.

Grade 7 Science-Over the next few cycles students will continue to make their way through a series of learning stations and discuss the seasons, day and night, the properties of light and the phases of the moon.

Core French 4-9-This week students in Grades 4-6 will begin their final project for our unit on pastimes. Working in small groups, they will create a song to show off their learning including their interests in sports, music and ways they help out at home.

In Grades 7-9, students will finish up their own fake Instagram post where they must seek out advice on a problem. They will then respond to each other, giving some thoughtful suggestions en français 🙂

Have a marvelous week!

Mme MacNevin