Happy Halloween!!! Today we will have lots of fun activities and I cannot wait until the students arrive to see their costumes and to reveal our annual staff costume theme. I hope that everyone has a safe evening and remembers to share with their teacher tomorrow 😉

Learning conferences are only a few short weeks away (November 24-25). Stay tuned to my blog and the school website for the link to our sign up page which will be released very soon.

This week will be a very short one of students, as teachers and staff attend their annual conventions on Thursday and Friday (November 3 and 4), there will be no classes for students on those days.

Finally, all are reminded that our picture day had to be rescheduled. The new date is now November 9th.

Let us now take a look at what we will be exploring together during the next three days…

French-This week students will finish drafting their want ad pieces. We will then shift our focus to revising and editing our work; looking in particular at how to avoid direct translations from English, homophones and verb tenses, and continuing to enhance our texts with detail and description to engage our readers and attempt to “sell” our products.

We are also about half-way through our read aloud novel “Mamie Gangster.” Our focus after reading this week will be around expressing our opinions about the novel using examples from the story to fully support our ideas and opinions.

Time will also be spent beginning to reflect on the first two months of learning; taking stock of how far we’ve come and setting attainable goals for the next few months. Some short oral language assessments will happen in class to help guide this process both when it comes to speaking and listening.

Science-As we near the end of our unit on chemistry, we will continue to explore changes in matter. Students will continue creating, and eventually present, an experiment of their choosing; explaining what type of change it represents and why and showing how matter was conserved throughout the transformation. We will also prepare for and write our Chapter 2 test which will take place on Wednesday, November 2nd. Students are encouraged to check out Google Classroom for review games and study tips.

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 finish up our formal study of the properties of matter. Students will then begin to review the concepts we’ve been working on over the past few weeks and will prepare to write their unit assessment on these concepts which will take place on Wednesday. Chapter 1 in their workbooks, the activities in our Google Classroom, and those accessible through their online etext-mabiblio, are all great resources to guide them as they study. As always, I am also available for extra support during lunch hour 🙂

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.

Happy Halloween! Have a fantastic week!

Mme MacNevin