I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend! It’s hard to believe that we are already at the end of our second month of school. Time sure has flown by with all of the events that have happened over the past few months.

Unfortunately, our photographer had some technical issues on Thursday and was not able to take all the pictures. Our new picture day will be November 9th.

On Thursday, Oct 27th, our Jr High students will have their first social of the year. It will take place from 7-9pm. Students are encouraged to come in costume for a night of dodgeball, dancing and treats. The cost is $7.

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-Our fun in the lab continues this week as we continue to explore the differences between chemical and physical changes in matter and discuss the indicators that allow us to know when a chemical reaction has taken place. We will also focus on the law of conservation of matter.

Grade 9 Science-Over our next few classes together, students will finish up their properties of matter lab and write their Chapter 6 assessment.

Grade 7 Science- This week we will begin our look at temperature and pH, through a fitting Halloween experiment. Using our “witch’s brew” of cabbage juice, students will create a liquid that will act as an agent to determine whether a substance is acidic or basic. We will also begin to look at other properties of matter including conductivity.

Grade 9 English Science-Our focus this week will be on the characteristics of a good scientist, as students work to create posters on these important traits. Their posters are due on Wednesday. We will also begin preparations for our “Nature of Science” unit test will be take place on Friday, October 28th.

Have a wonderful week!

Mme MacNevin