First, I hope that everyone is doing okay after last week’s events. I know how challenging things have been for so many of our Gulf Shore families. Please let me know if there is anything at all I can do to support you.

Our Orange Shirt Day will now be held on Friday, October 7th. If you haven’t already been made aware, the Dept of Education has canceled the professional development sessions that were originally scheduled for Friday, and instead it will be an instructional day. We will thus, move our Terry Fox Run to next Friday, October 14th. More information on these events can be found on the Gulf Shore School Facebook page.

Now here is a snapshot into what will be happening during our time together as we jump back into some of our normal routines this week….

French- We will continue to participate in activities and games that will get everyone speaking French as much as possible. Our work will also continue discussing some common errors that second language speakers often make because of directly translating from their first language. Finally, as we take the time to recognize Truth and Reconciliation Week, many of our readings and discussions this week will focus on learning more about residential schools and their impact on our indigenous communities.

Science-It is hard to believe, but we have already finished up our learning of the first few outcomes of the year. Thus, our next few classes will be spent preparing for our assessment on Chapter 1 (atoms, molecules, elements and the periodic table) which will take place on Wednesday (Day 3). Students should be sure to check Google Classroom for the specific date, along with some games and resources to help them to study. We will also finish up and share our element projects that we began before the storm.

Grade 9 FI Science-This week we will wrap up discussions on how matter is organized and dive deeper into solutions and their components; identifying solutions that surround us, especially those found in the human body, and taking note of their solvents and solutes. We will also begin discussions around the properties of matter and how they can used to identify substances. This work begins with a review of the properties studies in Grades 7 and 8, before we move into looking at some new properties not previously explored including density and solubility and how to calculate them.

Grade 7 Science- This week we will wrap up our look at changes in states of matter. In the lab we will have the chance to watch these changes in action, as we experiment with changing water between its three states. Later on this week (Wednesday, October 5, Day 3) students will write a quick check-in quiz on section 1.1, before we move into looking at mass and volume.

Grade 9 English Science- Over the next few days we will continue to look deeper at the steps of the scientific method. Students will work in pairs to find an experiment of their own and explain what is happening at each step in regards to the scientific method. Today they will also write a check-in quiz on the words of science we have been studying these past few weeks.

Have an amazing week! We’ve got this 🙂

Mme MacNevin