It is hard to imagine that month of September is almost over and we are entering into our first full week of fall. I hope that everyone had a chance to take advantage of the beautiful weather over the weekend! I also want to thank everyone for all their help on Friday with our Terry Fox Run. We had a blast!! I look forward to hearing all about the total amount raised for this fantastic cause 🙂

This week is shaping up to be a busy, but short one. There will be no classes on Friday, September 27th. Teachers and Staff will spend the day discussing our school goals.

Picture day will be on Tuesday, October 1st.

Let’s now take a look at the learning that will take place over this week in our classes together…

French-We have started our first piece of writing in our writer’s workshop, a narrative text. This week we will finish up reviewing the structure of this type of text, as we continue to read and analyze stories; taking from them to plan out our own ideas and begin our first drafts.

We will also finish up our oral diagnostic testing and continue our daily “réchauffement” (warm-up) as we work towards meeting our individual oral language learning goals we set last week.

With Mr. Alex, our French monitor, students have been working on creating their own plays, which they will present to their peers later on this week.

Science-As we travel through our unit on matter, this week we will finish up our discovery of molecules and their structure and we will continue to examine the Periodic Table of the Elements and discuss how matter is organized. Each student has chosen an element to research and to use to show their understanding of how to read the Periodic Table. Over the next few days we will complete and share these projects and then begin our summary activities for Chapter 1.

Grade 9 Science- As we work through our biology unit, this week we will continue to discuss both mitosis and meiosis and how these processes produce new cells. We will also take a closer look at genetic diversity amongst populations through an interactive in-class activity. If time permits, we will begin our last section of chapter 1; discussing the differences between cells, tissues, organs and systems.

Grade 7 Science- Over the next few days we will complete our study of changes in states of matter. We will then begin to define mass, learn how to measure the mass of different substances, and start to explore the differences between mass and weight.

Grade 4-9 Core French-This week we will continue our new units on daily events and activities. In Grades 4-6 we will continue discussing the activities we take part in before, during, and after school; reviewing how to tell time in French as we express when activities take place. In Grades 7-9 we will continue our exploration of the fun activity of going out to eat in a restaurant.

Have a wonderful week!

Mme MacNevin