Happy Halloween! I’m looking forward to seeing lots of great costumes on Friday (no weapons or full masks please), and I’m crossing my fingers that we will have great weather and that everyone will have a fun and safe evening on Sunday night 🙂
This week will be Spirit Week here at Gulf Shore. More information on specifics can be found on the school’s webpage. There will be themed dress up days and special activities all week.
Picture day is tomorrow. Students will be called down in classes to have their picture taken. Picture packages will be available for purchase from Lifetouch in the coming weeks, so keep your eyes peeled for proofs in backpacks 🙂
This will be a full and busy week here at Gulf Shore. Let’s look at what we have planned over the next few days in our classes…
French-The drafting of want ads will continue this week and our mini lessons will focus on adding details and description to our texts as to better engage our reader.
Our Halloween-themed oral language activities will also continue, as will our read aloud novel “Mamie Gangster.” This week students will be assessed on both their oral language comprehension through a short assignment related to our read aloud novel and a written comprehension assessment related to the theme of transformations of matter that we have been studying in Science.
Science-This week we will work towards wrapping up our unit on chemical reactions and physical changes of matter. To show their understanding and to help them prepare for their unit assessment, students will work in teams to create an experiment that they will share with the class next week. Each group must show a chemical or physical transformation and then explain why their change occurred and how the mass of the reactants is equal to the mass of the products in their experiment. This project will also show their understanding of both the scientific method and proper lab procedures and finally it will serve as a way to assess their skills when presenting en français.
Grade 9 Science-Tomorrow we will move our focus onto diving deeper into the atom; as we explore sub-atomic particles and how our understanding of matter and the model of the atom has changed over the years. These outcomes are not included in the student textbook resource and mabiblio that we typically use in class. Notes and other resources will be provided both in class (paper) and on Google Classroom (virtually).
Grade 7 Science- This week we will begin our look at pH, through a fitting Halloween experiment. Using our “witch’s brew” of cabbage juice, students will create a liquid that will act of an agent to determine whether a substance is acidic or basic. We will also being to look at other properties of matter including conductivity.
Grade 9 English Science-With our Nature of Science unit complete, this week we will begin our study of chemistry. To begin, students will explore what matter is, it is organized, as well as ways to identify substances using their chemical and physical properties.
Have a spooky week!
Mme MacNevin