Happy Monday and welcome back! I am so excited to welcome my students back inside the classroom. While this remains a difficult time, I know it is the best place for us to be and that the measures put into place by the CPHO will help to keep us all safe. Students are reminded of the importance of sanitizing, distancing, masking and testing. Please continue to reach out if you have any questions or concerns.

With that being said, let’s take a look at what will be taking place over our first few days back….

French-Work is moving along nicely in our creation of our travel journals. We will continue to use our online resource #LaClasse to help us in the creation of this project.

During our time online, we were able to continue to reading our novel “Mamie Gangster.” We are nearing its end and will happily continue our discussions around Ben and Mamie’s adventures in person.

Finally, during our daily warm-ups we will work on using verbs in the past tense and some commonly misused expressions.
Science-We have now completed our second section of the year on biology and will now shift our focus onto geology. We will start by reviewing some of the concepts we learned during this section last year including the layers of the Earth’s crust, before moving into our new learning about the rock cycle.

Grade 9 Science-As we keep moving through chapter 8, this week we will explore waves and the electromagnetic spectrum in greater detail through both some virtual and interactive experiments in the lab.

Grade 7 Science-Today, students will present their animal project and wrap up their look into ecosystems. With this completed, we will look into the next section of our biology unit, beginning with the characteristics of living things and the part of animal and plant cells.

Grade 9 English Science-Our lessons this week will focus on chemical and physical changes in matter and the differences between atoms and ions.

Have a marvelous week! Stay safe and healthy everyone 🙂

Mme MacNevin

While I could have never imaged that we would be entering into yet another week of remote learning, here we are and I once again want to reiterate how wonderful your children have been handling our new normal. The moving is most definitely moving forward and I am so pleased with their continued engagement. I know we are all getting tired, and so as we keep trudging through this storm so to speak, please remember to give yourselves some grace.

Remember to reach out if you have any questions or concerns. We got this Gulf Shore!

Now here is a snapshot into our learning for this week…

French- Moving through our unit on travel in #LaClasse, students will take another step towards their final project of a travel journal as this week we discuss vocabulary related to lodging and write some retells of some misadventures we may have had on our travels.
I continue to read “Mamie Gangster” a few times a week, and students are engaging in discussions about this interesting grandmothers and all her adventures to steal the crown jewels with her grandson Ben.

Finally, just as we do in the classroom, we will continue to each Google Meet with our warm-up where students have the opportunity to converse en français.

Science-Over the next few days we will wrap up our study of human reproduction (Chapter 4). On Friday, students will write a quick Google Forms assessment on these concepts. This means that many of our classes this week will be spent reviewing the outcomes of this sections through interactive games and activities.

Grade 9 Science-With our assessment on Chapter 7 now behind us, we will look into our last section of our “univers matériel” before we head into our biology section. This last chapter will focus on both pressure and waves.

Grade 7 Science-Our look into ecosystems will end this week as we finish up chapter 3 with a deeper discussion into adaptations and how different species use them to survive. We will then begin our review in preparations for a short Google Form quiz on Wednesday.

Grade 9 English Science-The focus during our online classes these next few days will be exploring chemical and physical changes in matter and why they occur. Students will even get to do some virtual lab activities where they will “hunt” for these kinds of changes around home.

Have a wonderful week! Stay safe and healthy everyone 🙂

Mme MacNevin

With the word late last week that remote learning will continue for at least another week, I just wanted to take another opportunity to reach out and tell you all how proud I am of your children. They are doing incredible work during these difficult times and are fully engaging in their learning. Google Meet has provided us the chance to continue our classroom culture and it is is truly the highlight of my day when I get to see their smiling faces through the screen.

That being said, I know that this is a very challenging time for many of you. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you need any help or support. Our Gulf Shore family will navigate this storm together as we always do 🙂

Here is a peek into what we will be discussing during our remote classes these next few days….

French- We continue our unit in #LaClasse, working towards our final project of a travel journal. Additionally, we continue to read and discuss our read aloud novel “Mamie Gangster” and engage in interactive warm-ups during our Google Meet breakout rooms.

Science-This week students will finish up their information poster on a method of contraception. Once this is complete, we will begin to discuss the final section of our unit on living things: sexual transmitted infections.

Grade 9 Science-We have now complete all the new learning for our unit on transformations of matter and energy. This week will be spent reviewing as we work towards our final assessment on these concepts which will take place on Friday.

Grade 7 Science-As we near the end of our ecology unit, this week we will look at food chains and changes and adaptations different species use to survive.

Grade 9 English Science-Our look at the periodic table will wrap up this week. We will spend some time reviewing the concepts we have seen in Chapter 5 and prepare to write an assessment on these concepts.

Wishing you all a great week! Stay safe!

Mme MacNevin

Remote learning is off and running and I cannot thank you and your children enough for all their hard work last week. It truly takes a village, and I was so impressed with my students’ engagement and participation in their learning. I know that there were probably many frustrating moments for everyone behind the scenes and I hope that you all had some time to unwind this weekend and dig out from the snow.

Now here is a look at we will learning during our virtual classes this week…

French- As we work through our unit in #LaClasse, students will continue work on their travel journals, we as always, will engage in some fun warm-ups to get us speaking in French and of course, we continue our read aloud novel “Mamie Gangster.”

Science-This week we will wrap up our look at the stages of life and begin our study of different methods of contraception, exploring how they prevent pregnancy.

Grade 9 Science-As we work through Chapter 7, over the next few days students will wrap up their look at physical and chemical transformations of matter and will shift their focus to energy and its transformations.

Grade 7 Science-Moving on in our ecology this week, we will look at abiotic and biotic factors as well as how different organisms get their energy (producers and consumers).

Grade 9 English Science-We will continue to examine the trends of the periodic table throughout our online discussions these next few days.

Have a fantastic week!

Mme MacNevin

As we enter the 2022 part of the 2021-2022 school year, I know that this wasn’t the return to school that we had been hoping for, but we will make the best of it and support each other in true Gulf Shore style 🙂

Starting on Thursday, January 6th, students will follow their regular daily schedule, but they will do so remotely using Google Classroom. All necessary materials and links can be found in Classroom. Students should join their teacher’s Google Meet link (this is found in Classroom in the top left hand corner) at the beginning of each period.

Here is a look at what we will learning during our virtual classes this week…

French- Our virtual oral language warm-up this week will begin together with a pair and share about our holiday break and then continue later on this week practicing expressions that use the verb “avoir”, the passé compose, and also those where two verbs are used together. Proper verb conjugation is a goal for many of my students, so we will spend lots of time focusing on some activities in the coming weeks to help give them some strategies to improve their spoken language. As we work through our unit in #LaClasse, students will also make progress on their travel journals, looking closely at le passé compose.

Science-We will wrap up our final sections of Chapter 4 on human reproduction over the next few days. Together, we will look at the stages of human development both before and after birth, as well contraception.

Grade 9 Science-During our classes this week we will return to our textbook to explore chemical and physical changes in matter (Chapter 7). Much of this chapter is a review from Grade 8, but with our added knowledge of how atoms combine from our studies before the break, students will look at these concepts through a different lens than they did last year.

Grade 7 Science-Before the break, we began our unit on biodiversity. This week students will review the concepts we discussed in December including species, taxonomy, and population, before beginning to look at habitat and niche later on in the week.

Grade 9 English Science-As we continue to move through our chemistry unit, this week we will look at how the periodic table is organized and explain why it is called the “periodic” table.

Happy New Year! Have a wonderful week! Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions and concerns you may have.

Mme MacNevin