Week of March 6-10

I hope that everyone had a wonderful break. I cannot wait to greet my students this morning and hear all about it. There was definitely a lot of excitement around the Island these past few weeks, but it will be nice to get into our normal routines again.

Here is a snapshot of what we will be working in this first week back from the break….

French-Today we will kick a new read aloud called “Noémie: Le secret de Mme Lumbago” and we will also start our book clubs. Students will have the opportunity to “taste test” several different books before making the choice of the novel they would like to read over the next few weeks. We will also begin our second unit in #LaClasse on interviews. As always, our warm-ups will allow us to practice our oral language skills and goals leading up to our learning conferences at the end of the month.

Science-Before the break we 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-This week officially kicks off our biology unit. We will begin by taking a closer look at DNA. Students will “make” their own DNA molecules using twizzlers and mini marshmallows, “extract” DNA from a strawberry, and begin to learn about the importance of DNA in the body’s cells.

Grade 7 Science-This week we will begin to 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 fantastic week!

Mme MacNevin