Once again, I’d like to thank everyone for your flexibility with rescheduling interviews. I think I’ve managed to touch base with everyone now, but if we haven’t had the chance to connect yet, please be sure to reach out sometime this week.
This week is Spirit Week here at Gulf Shore. Here is the full schedule of events:
Monday-Crazy Sock Day/Sock Hop
Tuesday-Jersey Day
Wednesday-School Skate
Thursday-Spring Day/Talent Show
Permission forms for our school skate (Mar 20) and a field trip to see the musical “Mean Girls” at Bluefield were sent home last week. The cost of the skate is $5.00 and the cost of the musical is $15. Please send these back in as soon as possible, so that we can have an idea of the number of students who will be attending. Students are also reminded that they will need a helmet to go skating on Wednesday.
As we begin our March Break, students and their families are reminded that there will be no classes on Friday, March 22nd (in lieu of Good Friday which will happen over the break).
Now here is a look into what else will be taking place these next few days….
Grade 7 Science-Tomorrow students will write their assessment on temperature. We will then move into exploring how matter changes between state in more detail through some labs and interactive activities.
Grade 7 Core- As we wrap up the first section of our unit on clubs, students will record themselves inviting a friend to join their clubs. We will also finish up our study of the words and actions to the song “Français, Français”.
Grade 9 Immersion Science-Today students will finish up their review on the parts of an atom and how to draw models. With this complete, we will write our quiz on these concepts, before wrapping up our last few classes before the break with an exploration of how atoms combine to form molecules, by giving, receiving or sharing electrons.
Grade 8 Science-Today we will review for and tomorrow write, our unit test on ecosystems. With that complete, we will spend the rest of the week kick starting our unit on chemistry. Our first step: learning about particle theory and how particles behave in the three states of matter.
Grade 9 STEM-This is our last week together before students switch to their final exploratory module of the year. We will spend our last few classes wrapping up our Microbit projects, conducting a final test on our electric cars and testing our typing speed in a words per minute challenge.
Wishing you all a fantastic March Break and Easter. I cannot wait to hear all about it when classes resume following the Easter long weekend on Tuesday, April 2nd.
Mme MacNevin