As hard of it is to believe, we are entering the last week of March and there are only 3 more months of the 2021-2022 school year. Wow! Time sure does fly by!

I am still missing a few report card envelopes. If your child hasn’t returned theirs, please encourage them to do so as soon as possible, so that I can recycle these for the final term in June.

Students are reminded to continue to take their COVID-19 rapid tests each Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

There will be no classes for students on Friday, April 1st, as teachers and staff will be participating in professional development activities.

Now here is a snapshot into the learning taking place during our classes together this week….

French-As we continue to look into the interview text form, this week students will finish up their reading assessment and begin to look at what counts when conducting an interview of their own. They will then choose the subject for their interview and, after we review different types of questions, students will begin drafting those that they will pose to their interviewee.

Science-This week students will finish and then present their energy posters. Following this, we will review the concepts studied in chapter 5, in preparation for their assessement on these outcomes on Day 2.

Grade 9 Science-Our main focus this week will be reviewing the concepts covered in the first section of our biology unit on cell division and DNA. Following that assessment (on Day 2) students will begin taking a deeper look into the parts and functions of the first of many human body systems we will study together: the reproductive system.

Grade 7 Science-We will wrap up our study of living things this week. Students will finish up their posters on the three ways animals use to develop their young and will also review for and write their assessment on the outcomes presented in chapter 4, before moving into the first section of our unit on the Earth’s crust.

Grade 9 English Science-We are well into our unit on electricity, in particular static electricity. This week students will learn about conductors and insulators and how objects become charged.

Have an excellent week!

Mme MacNevin