Homework Assigned For Homeroom: 7-3 February 18, 2020 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their last day in the chromebook lab today to work on their narrative essays. They are certainly shaping up! Today was my last day at editing the work as well. What needs to be finished up after this afternoon needs to be done solely with self-editing. Please review my previous edits to make sure you are not falling into the same common mistakes. These should be submitted to me by no later than tomorrow evening (Feb. 19th). If they are not, students will be called up, asked to sign into their accounts and asked to click the 'turn in' button. Please be responsible for deadlines and work quality: especially since these essays could have, and should have been worked on at home as well as during class time. Other dates to consider: -Turning Points booklets will be collected in on Feb. 20th - Final versions of book reports are due on Feb. 28th French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Due to many absences today (thus difficulty with partner work) students just assured they fully completed their 'Partie A' of their interview. If this is not done, it is now set for homework. You will actually work with your partners next day when - hopefully- we have full attendance. Personality types and jouer / faire reading test - Feb. 25th Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Module 2 Unit test on chapters 4, 5 & 6 on Wednesday, Feb. 19. I have posted all relevant information for students on Google Classroom as well as the answers to the worksheets. The online quizzes for chapters 4, 5 & 6 have been reset for students to practice. Wednesday, Feb. 19 - Module 2 Unit test Thursday, Feb. 20 - Science Lab Friday, Feb. 21 - Science literacy graphing quiz. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received all notes and the study guide to ch. 3: economic security in the 21st century. Please note that there will be a case study and a test for this chapter as well. It should be around mid March. February 13, 2020 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We finished chapter 6 study. Students got a few more worksheets to work on! There is no chapter 6 quiz BUT a Module 2 Unit test on chapters 4, 5 & 6 on Wednesday, Feb. 19. I have posted all relevant information for students on Google Classroom as well as the answers to the worksheets I gave out on Tuesday. The online quizzes for chapters 4, 5 & 6 have been reset for students to practice. Tuesday, Feb. 18 - Unseen Science literacy quiz. Wednesday, Feb. 19 - Module 2 Unit test Thursday, Feb. 20 - Science Lab Friday, Feb. 21 - Science literacy graphing quiz. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Due to missed time yesterday, I reserved the Chromebook lab for students to finish up their Religion online worksheet on Islam. If this is not submitted, you should finish it up over the weekend. It was due today. However, I will accept it submitted up to and including Tuesday. No more class time will be used for this, though. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are moving along nicely on their narrative essays. The deadline for these essays has not changed. You will have one more class down in the tech lab on Tuesday morning. They are expected to be submitted on Tuesday. Some students DID NOT submit a rough copy of their 2nd book report to me. That's fine, as it was not mandatory. But please note, final copies are due on Feb. 28th. Those who did submit rough drafts to me, I will have them back to you with comments on Tuesday. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received their Ch. 2 Case studies on the Beothuk people back. Marks have been on Powerschool since Tuesday. All students were given a chance to read my comments and reflect on their performance. Ch. 2 tests will be distributed early next week. February 11, 2020 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We finished chapter 6 study. Students got a few more worksheets to work on! There is no chapter 6 quiz BUT a Module 2 Unit test on chapters 4, 5 & 6 on Wednesday, Feb. 19. I have posted all relevant information for students on Google Classroom. There are a number of important evaluations coming up over the next couple of weeks so it will be essential for you and your child to know what is happening. Tuesday, Feb. 18 - Unseen Science literacy quiz. Wednesday, Feb. 19 - Module 2 Unit test Thursday, Feb. 20 - Science Lab Friday, Feb. 21 - Science literacy graphing quiz. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students traveled down to the tech lab to begin work on their narrative essays. I will be editing these as you go. These, along with the entire Turning Points booklet, will be due on Feb. 18th February 10, 2020 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We finished chapter 6 study and have corrected the worksheet today! There is no chapter 6 quiz BUT a Module 2 Unit test on chapters 4, 5 & 6 on Wednesday, Feb. 19. I have posted all relevant information for students on Google Classroom. There are a number of important evaluations coming up over the next couple of weeks so it will be essential for you and your child to know what is happening. Tuesday, Feb. 18 - Unseen Science literacy quiz. Wednesday, Feb. 19 - Module 2 Unit test Thursday, Feb. 20 - Science Lab Friday, Feb. 21 - Science literacy graphing quiz. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Message on behalf of Ms. O'Brien: Please return the 3rd permission form for the postponed sliding excursion ASAP. It has been rescheduled again for Feb. 19th Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on two things: 1. They created a full paragraph answer in their Turning Points booklet on Akeelah and the Bee. 2. They planned out their narrative essay which they will begin typing tomorrow. If these were not completed in class, they should be finished tonight for homework. Please remember: Feb. 13 - rough copy of the book report due Feb. 28th - final copy due French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up the personality type notes which focussed on Jouer and Faire. Students were also placed into partners to begin their speaking project. Please note: 1. Notes are online now. 2. Speaking assessment will be done informally in class, this will not be a presentation. 3. There will be a reading test on the same information on Feb. 25th. February 7, 2020 Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished off the Islam presentation. On Monday you will be tasked with heading down to the Chromebook lab and completing an internet search activity on Islam. Due: Feb. 18th Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We finished chapter 6 study today! There is no chapter 6 quiz BUT a Module 2 Unit test on chapters 4, 5 & 6 on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Also, I have posted all relevant information for students on Google Classroom. February 6, 2020 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students watched the film 'Akeelah and the Bee.' They also did the viewing activity that corresponded with the film in their turning points booklet. Next day, we will consider the long constructed response regarding the turning point in Akeelah's life. That part is not for homework. If you were absent, you missed the entire viewing and will need to arrange a time to watch the film with me. Due to time constraints, this must be after school, or at lunch. No more class time will be given for this. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to Islam. There is a internet search activity associated with this which is available on Google classroom. Students will be heading down to the Chromebook lab next week to complete the activity. February 5, 2020 Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students will begin Religion tomorrow. Please come prepared. Today we discussed internet safety in terms of privacy. Students did a small reflective activity. These are requirements from the School board. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We have started chapter 6 study. There is no chapter 6 quiz BUT a Module 2 Unit test on chapters 4, 5 & 6 on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Also, I have updated PowerSchool with the chapter 5 quiz and the last two lab results. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to our next activity: a viewing activity. We will begin that tomorrow. Students should also start thinking about your 5-paragraph narrative essay topic which we will be working on next week in class. Students then used some time to play catch up on their Turning Points booklets. Everyone should now have up-to-date booklets which are error-free. If yours is not, you must do this on your own time now. Be mindful of the upcoming dates: 1. Rough copy of book report - Feb. 13 2. Final copy of book report - Feb. 28 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students analyzed the verb 'faire' for doing activities related to personality traits. Your group project will likely begin next Core French class. There will be no 'due date' as this will be an on-going assessment. There will also be a reading test associated with the concepts of personalities, jouer and faire. That date will be announced next class. February 4, 2020 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their ch. 2 test. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued working on 'jouer' activities and negation: 'ne pas.' Notes will be available on Google Classroom once we are finished. February 3, 2020 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Today is the official start of term two courses! Students were given a new schedule today. It is the exact same schedule as was distributed in the fall. The only thing that students must make note of is the following: 1.The slot that says: 'Art/Music' You will now - and for the remainder of the year - have music. 2.The slot that says: 'Home Ec/Tech' You will now - and for the remainder of the year - have tech. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We have started chapter 6 study. There is no chapter 6 quiz BUT a Module 2 Unit test on chapters 4, 5 & 6 on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had 2 classes devoted to Social Studies today: Class #1: We had a review class for tomorrow's test. We discussed, jotted down, and answered some questions of clarification. Test format tomorrow is: - Matching -3 Short answer questions (one sentences each) -2 Long answer questions (paragraph required) Class #2: Students wrote their Beothuk case study. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their library period considering tomorrow's class will be occupied by the Social Studies test. Please note the following important dates: 1. Rough copy of book report - Feb. 13 2. Final copy of book report - Feb. 28 There were a few students today who either forgot their novels, or did not use class time efficiently to work on their reading skills. I have spoken to those individuals. Please try and work to the best of your ability - which includes pushing yourself to do things that are sometimes inconvenient or uncomfortable. For example: remembering to pack your novel last night. Or, accepting that you forgot it without making up excuses or trying to avoid reading at all. The only way we grow is through conflict. January 31, 2020 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please be reminded that next Friday, Feb. 14 is a PL day for teachers: no school for students. Mathematics Assigned By: Daniel Morgan Finish Pg. 132 #3, 4 Pg. 136 #1, 2, 4, 6 Pg. 138 #3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (These should already be done from class time) There will be an outcome check on Wed. Feb 5th to insure all students have a solid understanding of the circles from Unit 4 so far. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students read the short story in the Nelson Literacy text called 'The Nest.' This is the 4th activity in the 'Turning points' booklet. If you did not get the questions completed in class, they are set for homework. We are moving on to the 5th activity on Monday. I will be collecting in these booklets next week for evaluation. It is expected that you are completing work if it is not done in class time. Also, if you are not finished your questions on 'The Nest' and need the story for your 'E' (example part of DPEEL) you can find an online version added to Google Classroom today. Note: Feb. 13 - rough copy of book report Feb. 28 - final copy of book report January 30, 2020 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Thank you to all who participated in our Soapwaorks fundraiser. Our school is looking to upgrade the sound system in the gymnasium, and looking to upgrade some very outdated technology. Your efforts will help us achieve that. For those wondering, the Mary Brown's coupons are still on-going. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students completed the speaking activity #2 in the Turning Points booklet. I also introduced the next activity #3:a graphic organizer of life events that helped shape who you are. Students are asked to complete this if they did not have time in class. This will be evaluated in about a week or so, after the entire unit is done. Please note upcoming important dates: 1. Feb. 13 - rough copy of the book report is due to me. 2. Feb. 28 - final copy of the book report is due to me. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students did an in-depth analysis of the case study on the Beothuk. We used the THIEVES analysis again. This analysis is now posted to Google Classroom along with the ch. 2 notes. Students must note the following dates: 1. Feb. 3 - Case study on the Beothuk. Bring in notes, text, and the THIEVES analysis. 2. Feb. 4 - Ch. 2 test. January 29, 2020 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please be advised that all Soapworks fundraising money and forms must be returned to me by tomorrow. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students went to the Chromebook lab to review the rubrics, the corrections, and my comments on their short stories. I also distributed marks for their Home Child oral presentations. These are on Powerschool now as well. Please take time to consider my comments. Students began work on activity #2 - a speaking activity. If you did not get the 'Who are you wheel' complete, you are asked to finish that off tonight. You should be indicating 'I am' 'I can' 'I am not' I cannot' statements in those spaces. January 28, 2020 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please note the 2 following announcements: 1. Soapworks fundraiser has been extended to Jan. 30th. 2. Tomorrow is Bell Let's Talk Day and students are asked to wear blue and white. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 5 quiz is Wednesday, January 29. Remember, the answers to the 'Hidden Heat' sheet is on Google Classroom + we reviewed the online quiz today. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed the treaty signings between First Nations groups and the British. We are almost to the end of the chapter. Notes will be posted in to Google Classroom after next class. Please start studying if you have not already. Dates: Feb. 3 Case Study on the Beothuk Feb. 4 Ch. 2 test Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins As of today, every student has a novel that has been approved by me for their independent book report. Please note the original dates of this report still apply, regardless of our unexpected closure last week. The dates are: Rough copy of the book report outline - Feb. 13th Final 5-paragraph book report - Feb. 28th. Today, students worked on activity #1 in the unit called Turning Points: a character traits paragraph. This was the only class time devoted to this activity. Please note, if it is not completed in class, it is to be done for homework. I will be collecting the booklets in once the unit is finished (approximately mid February) French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued learning about the personality types and words like etre, jouer which will help them formulate a speaking activity with their partners. Notes will be added to Google Classroom once we are finished. January 26, 2020 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 5 quiz is STILL on Wednesday, January 29. This is often one of the more difficult quizzes of the year so please ensure your child IS reviewing. Remember, everything is on Google Classroom + I emailed the students the practice quiz which will be important to do & review. January 16, 2020 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Friendly reminder that the Soapworks fundraiser is due back by Jan. 23. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students returned all Home Child novels. If you missed class time today, you are responsible for returning your home child book to me upon your return. We also began a new unit called Turning Points. This will take us a few weeks to complete. In this unit, we will discuss struggles and challenges in your life, surprises and changes in your life. We will discuss how this build character and creates a new dimension to a person that was not there before. We will be viewing a film, writing paragraphs, analyzing readings, creating representations, listening to stories, and typing an essay. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to the Treaties of Peace and Friendship. We began analyzing why the British and the Aboriginal groups negotiated these treaties. We will clue this up next day. Student are beginning to see a trend of power and authority (empowerment) and what happens when those with power abuse that power = dis-empowerment. Case Study (true/false style with one long answer about power, authority, rights) - on Jan 23. Ch. 2 test - Jan. 24 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned both etre and jouer today. This will help them support why their partners are musical, physique, sociable, etc. There are two more verbs to learn before the project actually begins. Please be reminded, this will be an oral evaluation. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 5 quiz is on Wednesday, January 29. This is often one of the more difficult quizzes of the year so please ensure your child IS reviewing. January 15, 2020 Art Assigned By: Kathleen Vaughan Make sure you download the stop motion app so you are ready to film in class! Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Friendly reminder that the Soapworks fundraiser is due back by Jan. 23. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Well, the 7-3s had me very close to tears of pride this afternoon! The Novel Study group presentations COULD NOT have gone better! Congratulations to all! Your hard work is appreciated more than you could ever know! Not just by me, but by your future selves! Students also went to the library and had time to consult with me about their book reports. Some students were absent or did not have a book chosen or confirmed by me for varying reasons (left it home and forgot its title, etc). Please note: all books must be confirmed by me. Students are encouraged to bring them in to me tomorrow if I spoke with you about it today. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded of their ch. 2 test on Jan. 24th January 14, 2020 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up the pre-industrial economy and industrial economy analysis. We then compared the two using the tables in your notes and worksheets. We also read p. 31-35 in the text. Test date for ch. 2: Jan 24th. Start prepping now. Notes and study guide will be available once all lessons are taught on Google Classroom. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins This was the final day for students to work in their novel study groups and prepare for tomorrow's presentation. Please keep in mind the rubrics distributed to you, as that is how you are going to be evaluated. I look forward to hearing some fantastic analyses of this novel. January 13, 2020 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Money collected for the fundraiser needs to be submitted to me - along with the order form on or before Jan. 23rd. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We have finished chapter 5. REVIEW! Chapter 5 quiz is on Wednesday, January 29. This is often one of the more difficult quizzes of the year so please ensure your child IS reviewing. Mathematics Assigned By: Daniel Morgan Pg 123 #1-6 are great practice questions for the test tomorrow. There are also some new quizzes on the google classroom. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued group work on the Home Child novel study. Presentations are THIS WEDNESDAY! I also returned some Social Studies work and consulted with students regarding their performances on this work. I will continue consultations next class as I did not have enough time to get them all in today. January 10, 2020 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded of Home Child group work that is continuing up until Tuesday, Jan. 14. Wednesday, January 15th is the presentation date. All groups will present to the class on this date. No exceptions will be permitted. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We have finished chapter 5. REVIEW! Chapter 5 quiz is on Wednesday, January 29. This is often one of the more difficult quizzes of the year so please ensure your child IS reviewing. We went to the lab yesterday where students observed some demonstrations of what happens when we add heat and cold to the three states of matter (sold, liquid & gas). Students must the complete lab write-up for Monday, Jan. 13. January 9, 2020 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins The homework page is up and running! So a delayed 'Welcome Back' to you all! Students will be coming home today with another fundraiser: St. John's Soap Works bath and body products. If you are interested in purchasing, there is a handy order form attached. Order deadline is January 23. Please note that the Mary Brown's fundraiser is still on-going if you'd like to continue purchasing. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Yesterday, students worked on their notes and a reading in the textbook about First Nations production and distribution prior to colonization. They started in on a worksheet about this. #1 and #2 on this worksheet should be complete for tomorrow's class. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We have finished chapter 5. REVIEW! Chapter 5 quiz is on Wednesday, January 29. This is often one of the more difficult quizzes of the year so please ensure your child IS reviewing. We went to the lab yesterday where students observed some demonstrations of what happens when we add heat and cold to the three states of matter (sold, liquid & gas). Students will do the write-up in class tomorrow and then the complete lab write-up will be due on Monday, Jan. 13. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students got together for their 3rd day of work on their Home Child novel study. Each group is working on writing, speaking, and representing products which will be presented to the class on Wed. Jan. 15th. Mathematics Assigned By: Daniel Morgan Homework assignment on Unit 3 Due Monday Jan. 13th. Test for Unit 3 on Tuesday Jan. 14th. December 19, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their second reading comprehension quiz on Home Child! Great work everyone! Almost all of you performed better on this one than the first. Your marks in Powerschool reflect the best of these two scores. So, if you received 60% on the first one, but an 80% on the second one: you now have an 80%! But, if you received higher on the first one than this one, your mark will not go down. You keep the higher mark. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins There are students who have not submitted their battles booklet to me. Please do so tomorrow. An email went home to remind you and your guardian about it today if you are late. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins There are students who have not submitted their origins to me. Please do so tomorrow. An email went home to remind you and your guardian about it today if you are late. December 18, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded about their reading comprehension quiz tomorrow on Home Child - ch. 8-14. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Recent Science marks have been inputted in PowerSchool. Many good increases in averages due to the last foldable/poster and chapter 4 quiz marks. Enjoy the holidays! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Battles booklets are due tomorrow! December 17, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Wednesday is Christmas decoration day! For those interested in the fundraising efforts of Mary Brown's Coupons, keep in mind that they should be purchased in the coming week and a bit, in time to have a few stocking stuffers. Yum Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students discussed the questions to consider for chapter 12, and 13. We will conclude the novel tomorrow! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder: Battles booklets are die by the 19th if not already submitted. December 16, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Tuesday is Christmas decoration day! For those interested in the fundraising efforts of Mary Brown's Coupons, keep in mind that they should be purchased in the coming week and a bit, in time to have a few stocking stuffers. Yum! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students spent day one on their cartes de Noel. We will continue this next class. The goal is to finish these to take home over Christmas. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students spent the entire class working on their poster, comic strip, or story (depending on their choice) of Sky Woman or Glooscap. Notes and explanation of the project are on Google Classroom for Religion. There are still 3 students not on that classroom. The code is xe07k0w This is due on Dec 19th. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins We read chapters 12 and 13 today (chapter 13 being the climax). We will discuss the questions next class and hopefully have time to read ch. 14 as well. If not, that will be for Wednesday. Don't forget, you will be writing a very quick reading comprehension test on Dec 19th on chapters 8-14 of the novel. December 13, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Monday is Elf day! For those interested in the fundraising efforts of Mary Brown's Coupons, keep in mind that they should be purchased in the coming week and a bit, in time to have a few stocking stuffers. Yum! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on some Christmas terminology today. We also read through, while watching a video, steps on how to make a pop-up Christmas card. Students are asked to bring colouring things, scissors, and rulers to class next day so we can follow these steps and create our Christmas cards in time for the break. This will be done entirely in French! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students discussed the questions for chapters 10 and 11 today. An updated Google Document is found on Google Classroom now. Mathematics Assigned By: Daniel Morgan Quiz on Wednesday covering 3.1-3.4 Complete pg. 102 #2, 4, 5 and 8 for homework this weekend. Ignore book instructions (Estimate then multiply). Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were presented with the creationism stories of the Aboriginals of Canada: Sky Woman and Glooscap. I then explained the project on this. This is available on Google Classroom if you missed class today, or just want to refresh. Next class, and one other, students will work on their projects. They will be Religion AND ELA marks. The submission deadline for this project is Dec. 19th. Social Studies note: Students submitted their 'Battles Booklets' if complete. If not, you have up until Dec. 19th to complete this and submit it to me. December 12, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Tomorrow is Candy Cane day! Wear red and white. For those interested in the fundraising efforts of Mary Brown's Coupons, keep in mind that they should be purchased in the coming week and a bit, in time to have a few sticking stuffers. Yum! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote ch. 15 test. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received their copies of the written and listening projects we did last week and the start of this week. Marks are on Powerschool as well. I am generally pleased with this activity. Even though some students did not perform to their normal caliber for the writing section, they made up the marks on their listening part. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Home Child reading test on chapter 8-14 will be Dec. 19th. It should take approximately 10 minutes of class time. Same format as the previous one. December 11, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Tomorrow is reindeer day! For those interested in the fundraising efforts of Mary Brown's Coupons, keep in mind that they should be purchased in the coming week and a bit, in time to have a few sticking stuffers. Yum! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students discussed all three battles so that all of your battles booklets should be completed. If they are not, it is now set for homework. I will be collecting these in after your test tomorrow. Students also had time to clarify questions on the study guide. Happy studying tonight. test format: 1. Fill ins 2. Multiple Choice 3. Table on declaration 4. 2 out of 4 long answer questions. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had a reading period: 1. They read ch. 11 of Home Child silently. 2. They read for pleasure for the rest of the class. 3. Book reports were handed back. Marks are on Powerschool. December 10, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Tomorrow is Christmas sweater day! For those interested in the fundraising efforts of Mary Brown's Coupons, keep in mind that they should be purchased in the coming week and a bit. Yum! Art Assigned By: Kathleen Vaughan Sketchbooks need to be in by January 13th. Make sure you have 8 (total) sketches from you sketchbook list completed and labeled. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder: Ch. 15 test on Dec 12th. All notes are on Google Classroom now, but the battles booklets will be the students' notes for that last section. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed questions for ch 9, then read ch. 10. We will discuss those next class. Tomorrow, you will have a pleasure reading day (after you read ch. 11 silently of Home Child). Don't forget to bring your book. December 6, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Daniel Morgan Pg 110 #1-5 should be completed before the Quiz on Wednesday. For #4 it is not necessary to use a different method each time. December 5, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Daniel Morgan Short math Quiz on Decimals, Fractions and Percents on Wednesday Dec 11. December 4, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Thanks for all the support in the three current campaigns happening in the building: 1. Students are still donating to the Adopt-a-family until the end of the week. 2. Shop with a cop food drive is ongoing until Thursday, Dec 5. 3. The Parish Hall food hampers - our class is asked to bring in 2L pops. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We finished review of Module 2 (Heat) - Chapter 4. We did the online review quiz and went over the worksheets. Review! Chapter 4 test is Friday, Dec. 6. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked with their partners to create their sentences about days of the week, school subjects and opinions. They also began creating their listening tests for their new partners. You will have one more period to complete and practice this. Monday, Dec. 9 will be 'test' day. When you deliver your listening test to someone, and the other person delivers theirs to you. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students examined the Second battle of Ypres, and filled in their booklets. You will do the same for the Somme, and Vimy. These booklets will be useful study tools. They will also be handed in after your test as a separate mark. Please do your best work! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students went to the Book Fair today. W We then came back to class and discussed ch. 7 of Home Child. Chapters 1-7 comprehension test is Friday, Dec. 6th. It will only take about 10 minutes of time. December 3, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Thanks for all the support in the three current campaigns happening in the building: 1. Students are still donating to the Adopt-a-family until the end of the week. 2. Shop with a cop food drive is ongoing until Thursday, Dec 5. 3. The Parish Hall food hampers - our class is asked to bring in 2L pops. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We finished review of Module 2 (Heat) - Chapter 4. We did the online review quiz and went over the worksheets. Review! Chapter 4 test is Friday, Dec. 6. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Your reading comprehension test for ch. 1-7 is moved to Friday. Students reviewed ch. 6 questions and read ch, 7. We will work on those questions tomorrow, in class. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students corrected the worksheet on days, subject, opinions. I then introduced the partner writing/ listening project. We will begin this next class. 'Test' date - the listening component of the project -will be on Monday, Dec 9th December 2, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We finished review of Module 2 (Heat) - Chapter 4. We did the online review quiz today and went over the worksheets. Review! Chapter 4 test is Friday, Dec. 6. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please remember the three programs we are currently supporting: 1. Shop with a cop 2. Parish Hall food hampers (7-3s are asked to supply 2L pop) 3. Single Parents Association family. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 15 test date: Thursday, December 12th. Students looked at air and sea combat in WW1. We also were introduced to the last section on notable Canadian and NL battles. We will continue this study for the next few classes leading up to the test. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on ch 5 questions and we read ch. 6 Reading comprehension test will be on Thursday, Dec 5. It will take approximately 10 minutes. November 29, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are still giving generously to the Adopt-a-Family! Thank you! This afternoon students are coming home with another food drive from the Parish Hall. Please see the slip of paper sent home with your child for more information on what they have been asked to donate. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We finished review of Module 2 (Heat) - Chapter 4. Chapter 4 test is Friday, Dec. 6. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students corrected ch. 4 question on Home Child. We then read on to chapter 5. Students must completed #1 and 2 of these questions if not done in class. November 28, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded of the Adopt-a-Family campaign, as well as the 'Shop with a Cop' initiative. I will be sending home another food drive on Friday that the Parish Hall does. If you can give to that, we appreciate it. If you can not, that is okay. This is a busy time of year! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students previewed the book fair today. Date to visit the fair to purchase will be Wed. Dec. 4 during period 3. Students discussed ch. 3 of Home Child, then read and reviewed the questions for ch. 4 Students are expected to respond to chapter 4 questions tomorrow in class. We will move on to chapter 5 tomorrow. Please note: Once we hit chapter 7, we will stop and have a small reading comprehension quiz. This should fall approximately Wednesday of next week. However, it is too soon to tell exactly when due to this nature of a class novel study. Be prepared for a quick assessment next week on your comprehension of the first 7 chapters! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished the film on trench life and trench war. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students compiled all information for this section into a worksheet on day of the week, the avoir verb, the school subject, and their opinion on that subject. If this worksheet is not completed in class, it is set for homework. I will do a homework check next day. November 27, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded of the Adopt-a-Family campaign, as well as the 'Shop with a Cop' initiative. I will be sending home another food drive on Friday that the Parish Hall does. If you can give to that, we appreciate it. If you can not, that is okay. This is a busy time of year! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We started Module 2 (Heat) - Chapter 4. This chapter is very short. Review! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students discussed the questions for chapter 2 and read ch. 3. Students should be prepared to discuss all ch. 3 questions tomorrow in class. We will be moving on to ch. 4 tomorrow. Please note: Once we hit chapter 7, we will stop and have a small reading comprehension quiz. This should fall approximately Wednesday of next week. However, it is too soon to tell exactly when due to this nature of a class novel study. Be prepared for a quick assessment next week on your comprehension of the first 7 chapters! November 26, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students read ch. 2 of Home Child. We also worked on the questions to consider. Please complete questions 1 and 2 at home if you did not complete them during class time. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students built upon their knowledge of school subjects and the verb avoir. We looked at opinions on those subjects and I introduced the days of the week. This will equip students to begin their next assessment: a writing and listening assessment on the previously mentioned material. Notes can now be found on Google Classroom for this section. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their 'Who Enlisted?' Case study November 25, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Thanks to all who are continuing to bring in money for the Adopt a Family. Let's keep the funds coming so this single parent and child can have a nice Christmas! Tomorrow, wear orange in support of ADHD awareness. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Students 'foldable' or 'memory map' was due today. Several did not have it completed. Remember this has the same value as a quiz and will certainly negatively affect your child's mark. Please ensure your child has theirs passed in. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished off their discussion on the trench life and trench warfare. We began watching the British documentary called 'Life in the Trenches.' If you missed this and would like to see if for yourself, it can be found on Youtube. The link is in your notes. We will watch the rest of the documentary next day. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on les matieres, and the verb avoir. I will be introducing the writing and listening project soon. This will entail matieres, avoir, time, opinions and days of the week. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students submitted their short stories today. If you were absent, or did not for any other reason, you will be asked to do it tomorrow. November 21, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students got novels and novel study guided questions distributed to them today. We will begin our novel study of the book 'Home Child' on Monday. Students also received their wind chimes marks back and brought their chimes home. Students were tasked with some pre-reading expectations for the weekend: look at the front cover, read the back cover, read the foreword. Prepare for what this novel will be about. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Today, students started their final work piece for Module 1. They have a choice of a 'Memory Map' or a 'Foldable' to do. They started in class and need to pass this in on Monday. This piece of work has the same value as a quiz! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up their in-depth analysis using the THIEVES method of the article 'Who enlisted.' They are now prepared to write their case study on Tues. Nov. 26th We also moved on to trench life and combat. November 20, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please continue donations for our 'Adopt a Family' campaign. Also, parents were informed via the administration of a community effort between the RNC and the school: shop with a cop. If you would like your child to participate in this, please send your child in with a non-perishable food item and they will be entered to win a shopping spree with an RNC officer. For more information, check your emails or refer to the office. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their short story tests. Wind chime marks are now on Powerschool and students will be receiving their rubrics tomorrow. Wind chimes can now be brought home. Great work, everyone! November 19, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded of your short story test tomorrow. Happy studying! Please also note: students went down to the tech lab for the last time today to work on their short story. Submission deadline is Nov. 25. All students will go to the lab on the 25th with me and click 'turn in.' Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Tomorrow, students will do the 'Data Analysis' part. This is important to review at home. We did a sample last week of what this will look like and how to complete it. To complete work for Unit 1 over the next couple of days students will be doing a 'Foldable' based on a past topic from Unit 1. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued with the THIEVES analysis of the article 'Who Enlisted' found on page 279 of the text. This is in preparation for the case study on Nov. 26th. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued work on 'Les matieres' (school subjects) by learning the avoir verb. We will continue work on this next day. November 18, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are encouraged to continue to bring in money for our 'Adopt-a-Family' campaign. Thanks to all who have done so already. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Students completed the Module 1 Unit test. We are doing a couple of Science Literacy evaluations this week. Tomorrow, students will complete the 'Case Study', which is like an unseen story in English but there is a Science theme to the story in which students answer. Wednesday, students will do the 'Data Analysis' part. This is important to review at home. We did a sample last week of what this will look like and how to complete it. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed short story terms in preparation for Wednesday's test. Please note that this review is now on Google Classroom. As well, the study guide, notes, and all short story class work is available there are well. Reminder: Short Story test - Wednesday, Nov. 20th November 15, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Thanks to those who donated today for the Adopt-a-family campaign. All donations will continue to be accepted for the next few weeks. Monday begins our anti-bullying awareness week. Please come with clothing inside out to represent how bullying hurts on the inside. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students presented their wind chimes today. Great job, everyone! Marks will be on Powerschool in the coming days. Students also went to the tech lab to continue their work on their short stories. We will only have one more class next week to finish these up. The due date is Nov. 25th. I will be taking all students down and showing them how to 'submit' it to me - done or not done. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder: students will be writing a WW1 case study on Nov/ 26th November 14, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Thanks to those who donated today for the Adopt-a-family campaign. All donations will continue to be accepted for the next few weeks. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students passed in their foldables today. If they are not in, you should be expecting notification from me regarding their lateness. We then learned about NL and Canada's response to the war and began analyzing the 'Who Enlisted?' article in the text. Once the analysis is complete, I will be attaching it to Google Classroom. Students will have a case study on this article on Nov. 26th. Mathematics Assigned By: Daniel Morgan Reminder of the Unit 2 ICA on Tuesday Nov. 19th and the Test on Thursday Nov. 21st! (Addition and Subtraction of Integers) Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued their short story writing. All stories will be edited by me by the end of the evening this evening, so that all students can consider my edits and continue the writing process. Short Stories due on Nov. 25. Wind chime presentations tomorrow! I look forward to seeing and hearing about the symbols of your heritage. Unseen short story test: Nov. 20th French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned about 'les matiere' (subjects in school). We will do a bit more work with those notes before they get attached to Google Classroom. November 13, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Thanks to those who donated today for the Adopt-a-family campaign. All donations will continue to be accepted for the next few weeks. Tomorrow is 'Sock it to Diabetes' day. Please wear odd socks in support of this. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds The Science Unit test (Chapters 1, 2 & 3) will be on Monday, Nov. 18. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students spent their first day down in the tech lab working on their short stories. We will have three more periods reserved to continue this work. Due date for submission of this story is on Nov. 25th. All students MUST be working in the Google Doc posted on the ELA Google Classroom. No other documents will be accepted for evaluation. Don't forget: Wind Chimes are due on Friday Your book report was due today Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded that their foldables are due tomorrow. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were evaluated on a small interview: Quel temps fait-il, and Quels vetements portes-tu? Marks are on Powerschool now. November 12, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Today, students learned about our 'Adopt a Family for Christmas' campaign. SKJH has adopted a single mom and her 14-year-old daughter. Please send in money to support purchases for the daughter and her mom. I will be asking children to donate (if they wish) their left over money from lunch as well. A few cents per day adds up! The deadline to give to the Single Parents Association is Dec 9. Due to this, we are hoping to collect all funds well before this date so Ms. Wade can purchase all items. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We are finished discussing chapter 3. Review! The Science Unit test (Chapters 1, 2 & 3) will be on Monday, Nov. 18. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students explored Canada and Newfoundland's response to the call to war. We will continue with this and other information next day. Foldables due on Thursday if not done already. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had a busy day! We finished up the last two questions on the Tell Tale Heart. All questions should be done for homework if not completed in class. I will do a homework check tomorrow. Students were also given a study guide for their short story test on Nov. 20th. Students were also introduced to their short story writing assignment: a short story. They will be doing this all through Google Classroom. Students will have 4 classes booked in the tech lab to write a short story. I will visit each story and make live edits and suggestions. Due date for the final draft is Nov. 25th. Please do not forget the following dates: 1. Final copy of book report due tomorrow (Nov. 13th) 2. Wind chime presentations on Friday Nov. 15th. November 7, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are to be commended for their behaviour at the Remembrance Day assembly. Thank you to all who performed. Thank you to all who sat and listen attentively at this important event. Reminder: no school tomorrow or Monday. Tuesday will be day 5 on your schedule. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We are finished discussing chapter 3. Review! The chapter 2 Science test was returned to students this week. Have a look. PowerSchool has been updated. The Science Unit test (Chapters 1, 2 & 3) will be on Monday, Nov. 18. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students must finish off questions 1 and 2 of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' if not completed today in class. Please remember all up-and-coming dates! Art Assigned By: Kathleen Vaughan Sketchbooks must me submitted by Thursday, November 14th. Four sketches must be complete from the sketchbook activity list. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins WW1 foldable is now done for class time. You must finish this on your own time. Submission deadline is Nov. 14 November 6, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We're working on a Science lab this week. Also, we are finished discussing chapter 3. Review! The Science Unit test will be on Monday, Nov. 18. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished an in-depth analysis of 'The Tell-Tale Heart.' This can be found on Google Classroom if you did not get it all copied in class. We will begin questions on tone, mood, and theme next class. Reminder of dates Short Story test - Nov. 20th Wind chimes project and presentation - Nov. 15th Final copy of the book report - Nov 13th Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their last time in class to work on their War foldable. The questions and the guide are available on Google Classroom if you did not bring it home. If you are not done your foldable, it is due on Nov. 14th. No more class time will be given for it. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students completed a practice round of their weather and clothing conversations with me. I will be assessing this for a mark in class on Nov. 13th. By the practice rounds today, everyone will do wonderfully! November 5, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder: Friday, Nov. 8 and Monday, Nov. 11 are holidays. There will be no school. Students are asked to wear black and red on Thursday for our Remembrance day ceremony. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We're working on a Science lab this week. Also, we are almost finished discussing chapter 3. Review! The Science Unit test will be on Monday, Nov. 18. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked in class to analyse The Tell-Tale Heart. We will continue this next day. Reminders of important dates: 1. Final copy of book report is due on Nov. 13th. 2. Wind chimes project and oral presentation due on Nov. 15th. 3. Short Story test Nov. 20th (study guide to be distributed tomorrow and available on Google Classroom now) November 4, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were treated to a video today outlining this month's awareness activities: they will center around learning disabilities and ADHD Don't forget: Thursday afternoon is our Remembrance day ceremony and students are asked to wear black and red on this day. You will be provided with a poppy here if you do not have one. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up 'The Monkey's Paw' work and did a pre-reading activity, as well as began reading the last of the short stories: 'The Tell-Tale Heart.' We will continue this next day. Short story test was announced today: Nov. 20th. You will read an unseen short story and answer questions in DPEEL format on the story. Other dates to be aware of: 1. Nov. 13th - Book report essay due. All students were shown how to double space a Google doc and a Word doc today. Formatting, grammar, word choice, it all counts for this essay! 2. Nov. 15th - 'The Jade Peony' wind chimes presentation begins. Students will be graded on their speech and their wind chimes as a visual representation of their culture and heritage. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We're working on a Science lab this week. Also, we are halfway finished discussing chapter 3. Review! The Science Unit test will be on Monday, Nov. 18. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked again today on their WW1 foldable about the causes of war and the declaration of war. We will continue this again next Socials class. The due date is Nov. 14th French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students submitted their written work on weather, clothing and months of the year. This will be graded asap and returned to you. Marks will be on Powerschool as well. Students began preparation for a speaking activity today. We will continue these conversations (quel temps fait-il, quels vetements portes-tu?) next class. November 1, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We spent some time doing samples of the two Science Literacy assessments students will be doing soon - Case Study and Data Analysis. Students have a copy for review. We'll be doing a Science lab next week. October 31, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Have a safe and happy Halloween, everyone! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Book report templates are due tomorrow. These templates were distributed to you on Sept. 13th. That's a month and a half. Upcoming dates: Nov. 13th - Final 5-paragraph essays of the book reports due. Nov. 15th - 'The Jade Peony' wind chimes and oral presentation French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students will have their last class tomorrow to finish up the writing assignment on weather and clothing. If this is not completed in class tomorrow, it will be set for homework, and due on Nov. 4th. October 30, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded that there are regular classes in the morning. No costumes, please! During lunch, students will be permitted to change into their costumes for afternoon festivities. Reminder: No masks or hoods allowed for safety reasons. Students were treated, this afternoon, with a guest speaker: Ms. Miles came in and gave the class some tips on 'Surviving Junior High' Thank you, Ms. Miles for preparing this presentation and for helping the 7-3s organize themselves, take accountability for their own actions, and take care of themselves. If anyone would like to review this presentation, it can be found at the link below: https://skjhcounselling.weebly.com/surviving-junior-high-school.html Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed the causes of the war and the timeline of the declaration of war. I then presented students with their first project: a foldable on the causes of the war and the timeline of the declaration. This will be worked on in class for 3 periods. What is not complete after this time will be sent home for submission on Nov. 14th. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students performed a listening test today. Marks are now available of Powerschool. Students will get their test pages back once everyone has completed this activity. I hope you enjoyed the spooky tale! Students then continued with work on 'The Monkey's Paw' question #2. We will continue this work next ELA class as well. No set homework to complete tonight. October 29, 2019 Art Assigned By: Kathleen Vaughan All Romero Britto assignments should be submitted to be. Pop art piece is due Tuesday, November 5th. First sketchbook check is on Thursday, November 7th. I will be collecting your sketchbooks on this day!! Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Halloween day: Students are invited to bring costumes to wear beginning lunch time. Classes are as usual in the morning. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We spent some time doing samples of the two Science Literacy assessments students will be doing soon - Case Study and Data Analysis. Students have a copy for review. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students should now have their 5 dictionary terms completed. If not, it is for homework. We also began work on the questions for 'The Monkey's Paw.' Students should be almost finished question #1. We will continue these next day. Tomorrow is your listening quiz! Book report template (ie: rough copy) is due NOV 1! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students will have one more class to work on their 24 sentences of weather and clothing. After this, it will be set for homework and due in on Nov. 4. October 28, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued work today on the short story 'The Monkey's Paw.' We worked on dictionary skills and expanding vocabulary. Most are almost done this. So, we will spend about 10-15 minutes next class finishing this up. Then we will begin the paragraph response questions about foreshadowing, irony, setting, atmosphere. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed the causes of WW1 and looked at a timeline of the declaration of war. They then watched a video which highlighted these points exactly. It can be found on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8A_8gUc3Y French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on a writing evaluation: taking components from our work on weather and clothing over the past 2 weeks, and creating 24 sentences about weather during months of the year and the clothes you could wear. Most students are done. Those who are not will get one more period to work on these. After this, they will be set for homework and due Monday, Nov. 4th. October 25, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Scholastic book orders due Monday Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Students completed the Chapter 2 quiz Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Short Story listening quiz: Oct. 30th I placed our work on 'The Monkey's Paw' on Google Classroom. This was practice for your listening quiz. As of now, I have 9 first drafts of the book report submitted to me, and returned to students. That means I'm still waiting on 17 templates! Due date is Nov. 1! October 24, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students watched a video promoting Jamarama today. Please wear your pajamas tomorrow and bring in a donation for the Janeway. Scholastic book orders are due on Monday, Oct. 28th French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished off the clothing notes. They have now been placed on Google Classroom - along with the weather notes. If you missed any lesson on either of these or would like to make sure you have all pronunciations and translations written correctly, please access the digital copies there. Homework tonight: memorize the other half of your 'porter' verb. You must memorize them for reading and writing purposes (so, know how to spell them, and know what they mean). They are: nous portons, vous portez, ils portent, elles portent. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned about other countries involved in the outbreak of the war: Serbia and Bosnia Herzegovina. They also learned the four causes of the war: 1. The arms race, 2. Trouble in the Balkans, 3. The Black Hand, 4. The assassination on archduke Franz Ferdinand. We will watch a video about this, then I will be explaining their first project: which will comprise of summarizing this information. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins We have moved on to the second short story: 'The Monkey's Paw.' I hope you enjoyed reading it today! We will continue with activities on this story over the next few classes. One of those activities will be in preparation for your listening test next Wednesday! October 23, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Friday: Jamarama day! Please bring in a donation and wear your jammies in support of the Janeway! Scholastic book orders due on Monday, Oct. 28th. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Your ELA listening test has to be moved from Oct. 29th to Oct. 30th. Sorry for this confusion! Students were introduced to their representing and oral project today: a wind chime. This project links to heritage and culture, and is based on the short story we just finished called 'The Jade Peony' This project is entirely done at home. But I have made it very clear that if a students wants my help any step of the way: from crafting the chimes, to writing their small speech, or practicing their speech, they can. All they have to do is ask! Due date: Friday, Nov. 15th. Consult Google classroom for the document which explains the project. Did you complete your Jade Peony work? If not (and I have done two homework checks on it) you will notice on Powerschool that you have a little red 'L'. That means you did not have your work done in the expected time. If you have a check mark, good for you! You are keeping up with class expectations. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We are finished chapter 2. REVIEW. Students completed the online multiple choice quiz. Students can review these before the test. I will be taking many from the online quiz for the actual quiz so they are very important to review. Chapter 2 quiz is Friday, October 25. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned about the verb 'porter' (to wear). We also began terms on clothing. For homework tonight: commit to memory (for speaking, and writing) je porte, tu portes, il porte, and elle porte Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students studied and identified on a map the two major alliances in WW1 - the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. October 22, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We are 4 finished chapter 2. REVIEW. Students completed the online multiple choice quiz. Students can review these before the test. I will be taking many from the online quiz for the actual quiz so they are very important to review. I have posted the marks for the first Science lab on PowerSchool. Chapter 2 quiz is Friday, October 25. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students revised the appropriate answers for questions 1 and 2 of 'The Jade Peony.' Students then worked on questions 3 and 4. This is now set for homework. A homework check was done today, and another one will be done tomorrow. Test date announced: Short Story listening test on Oct. 29th. It will be mainly comprehension questions. You'll have to listen well to a spooky tale! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up their notes on weather. Everyone was then quizzed on 'Quel temps fait-il?' Great job to all who spoke! We began writing these weather statements and will continue this next class. October 21, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder: Stuttering awareness day is tomorrow, Oct. 22. Please wear green to support this. Friday is Jamarama. Please wear your PJs and bring in a donation for the Janeway. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We are 4 finished chapter 2. REVIEW. Today students completed the online multiple choice quiz. Students can review these before the test. I will be taking many from the online quiz for the actual quiz so they are very important to review. Chapter 2 quiz is Friday, October 25. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students presented their 10 commandments. Those who did not present today due to absence will need to confirm a time with me at lunch or after school to present. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on questions 1 and 2 of 'The Jade Peony.' If these are not done, they are set for homework. Please follow the DPEEL format Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received a study guide and all notes for ch. 15 of Social Studies. It is a study of WW1 and accomplishes our 'National Empowerment' unit. There will be 4 evaluations worth 4% of their mark each. For a total of 16%. October 18, 2019 Art Assigned By: Kathleen Vaughan Your Romero Britto assignment must be shared with me no later than Tuesday, October 22nd! kathleenvaughan@nlesd.ca Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We are 4 finished chapter 2. REVIEW. Chapter 2 quiz is Friday, October 25. Mathematics Assigned By: Daniel Morgan Reminder of open book ICA on Monday Oct 21st. Unit 1 Test will take place on Thursday Oct 24th. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded that your groups will be presenting their versions of the 10 commandments in class on Monday. I even gave students 10 minutes of ELA class to do any final preparations. ALL students will be presenting on Monday. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students concluded their analysis of The Jade Peony. We worked on: foreshadowing, symbolism, point of view, and briefly discussed conflict. Students will begin their independent seat work on the questions next class. October 17, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Unfortunately, I had to leave at lunch. We will continue meeting for door decorating again tomorrow. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We are 4 fifths through chapter 2. REVIEW. Chapter 2 quiz is Friday, October 25. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students analyzed the short story The Jade Peony. We found evidence of stereotype, foreshadowing and symbolism. We will continue analyzing it tomorrow before students begin their questions. The story and the questions are available on Google Classroom. Mathematics Assigned By: Daniel Morgan Math ICA will be on Monday Oct 21st. This is an open book assignment. There are notes and practice quizzes on the google classroom. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students spent the entire afternoon working on their Religion 10 Commandments tablets and preparing for their oral presentations. Presentations will be on Monday, Oct. 21 October 16, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Halloween door decorating continues at lunch for those interested. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began reading the short story 'The Jade Peony.' It can be found online, and a digital copy of our worksheet for it is available on Google Classroom. We will begin analysis and worksheet completion next class. Dates to remember: 1. Rough copy of book report - Nov 1 (pass it in sooner if done) 2. Final copy of book report - Nov. 13 (pass that in sooner if done, as well.) October 15, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Interested students met today at lunch to plan our Halloween door decorating. This will occur every lunch time except for day 6. Newcomers are welcome! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We are two thirds through chapter 2. REVIEW. I have returned the chapter 1 quiz. Check with your child. I also posted the marks on PowerSchool. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on their 10 Commandments projects. These are in-class projects that should not need any work at home, if students are using class time wisely. These will be presented to the class on Oct. 21. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received their `Future Self portraits`back today. Marks are on Powerschool. Please consider my comments if I had any. Students had a lesson today in the political candidates for St. John's South-Mt. Pearl. They also learned about the major political party platforms. This Friday, students will participate in Student Vote! And. like all voters, should be educated on who they are voting for! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded that their rough copies of their book reports (jot note template) are due on Nov. 1. Get them in before that date and I`ll get them back to you earlier. After you receive your template back, you will be tasked with creating a 5-paragraph essay on your novel - a book report. October 11, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Daniel Morgan I am hoping to have a Math In Class (open book) Assignment next Friday Oct 18. The quiz will be returned for study material on Tuesday. October 10, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Thanks for all your donations for both our 'Fill the Tractor' campaign, and the KES breakfast. Have a safe and happy long weekend! Happy Thanksgiving! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We are already halfway through chapter 2. REVIEW. October 9, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Great job with the Fill the Tractor donations! Keep them coming tomorrow morning! Reminder: Picture orders are due in to me by tomorrow. Or, you can order them online. KES Breakfast program: students are asked to donate $1 or $2 to this initiative to keep the breakfast program up and running for the 2019-20 school year! Please wear green tomorrow in support of mental health awareness! Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned about the Jewish/Christian belief of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt. They then learned about Moses and the 10 commandments. After this, they watched a small portion of the film 'The 10 Commandments'. Finally, I introduced their in-class group project: a current version on the 10 commandments for the ELA classroom. Please see the rubric for how you will be evaluated. This is available on Google Classroom. Presentation date of your 'tablets' is Monday, Oct. 21st. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up a group activity on plot development for the short story 'Higher Animals.' So far, we have reviewed characters and plot. We will begin another short story next week. We will then review setting, conflict, and symbolism. October 8, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Thanks again for the non-perishable food donations! Let's keep them coming! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds The Science lab we did last week and worked on yesterday is due on Thursday, Oct. 10th. Please ensure your child completes this assigned homework. We started chapter 2 today. REVIEW. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued work on their character sketch paragraph. These will be evaluated by me and returned at a later date in order to write a final copy. We will be returning to our plot analysis of 'Higher Animals' tomorrow. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Do you have your Future-self portrait done? It was due today. I will be asking individuals about it tomorrow. If it is not completed, I will make contact home. Check Powerschool. If you see a check mark next to your name, I have yours! October 7, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Thanks to those who brought in donations today. Please keep them coming! We now have a total of 51 items for our class! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Students were given time and lots of direction to work on their Science lab write-up. This is due on Thursday, Oct. 10th. Please ensure your child completes this assigned homework. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on a group plot structure activity today where each student worked in a specific group tasked with summarizing a part of the plot of 'Higher Animals.' We will continue this another day. The goal of this was to let everyone have a turn picking out plot elements. Each student will need to know plot structure for this short story unit, for our novel studies, and beyond. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Most students finished up their 'Future self portrait.' If you did not, it is for homework tonight to be submitted to me tomorrow. Students also received their case studies on Empowerment back. Way to go, 7-3s! You impressed me with your understanding of a difficult concept, and a dark period in Canadian history! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins All 'Qu'est-ce que c'est' presentations are done and marks are on Powerschool. I will give students individual rubrics next Core French class. Students began a new section today. We are learning weather and clothing. Then we will learn school subjects and times. This will all lead to a written evaluation, a reading evaluation, and a speaking evaluation. October 4, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Students completed Chapter 1 quiz. We will be doing a Science lab this week. Each student will do their own lab write-up. I have posted information on Google Classroom for the students to review. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had a reading period. Important dates to remember: Nov. 1 - template for the book report due. Nov. 13 - final copy of book report due. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder: those who have not been evaluated for their ‘qu’est-ce que c’est” entrevue, you will be presenting on Monday! October 3, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their second class on their Future-Self portrait. Some are done. Others are still working away. You will have one more class to work on this, after this, it will be set for homework. There is a date change in the due date. It will be due now on Tuesday, Oct. 8th. If not completed in class time on the 7th. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 1 quiz is tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 4. Review :) Today students we had computer issues in school so not all students were able to do the online practice quiz. But they can do it at home. It is in their Gmail account. Email me if there are any issues charlesimmonds@nlesd.ca I will be taking multiple choice from the online practice to put on the test. Yes, you read that correctly. Students can still have access and review these multiple choice. Also, they should have the worksheets done. I also usually take a couple of things from there to put on the test. How much of those worksheets does your child have done. Are they reviewing them? We will be doing a Science lab next week. Each student will do their own lab write-up. I have posted information on Google Classroom for the students to review. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued their speaking evaluations. Also, all remaining students who did not have a practice round yet, got up and practiced today. Way to go everyone! Next class, those who practiced today will present their final 'entrevue' for a note scolaire! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to a character sketch by analyzing the short story 'Higher Animals' We will continue working on this and developing our writing skills again. We will also be analyzing the plot structure of the story as well. October 2, 2019 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began their first oral evaluations today. Three groups presented for a mark. All other groups had their practice session. Those groups will present for a mark tomorrow. I am very impressed with your French oral speaking skills! Way to go 7-3s! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 1 quiz on Friday, Oct. 4. Review :) On Thursday, students will do an online practice quiz. I will be taking multiple choice from the online practice to put on the test. Yes, you read that correctly. Students can still have access and review these multiple choice. Also, they should have the worksheets done. I also usually take a couple of things from there to put on the test. How much of those worksheets does your child have done. Are they reviewing them? We will be doing a Science lab this week. Each student will do their own lab write-up. I have posted information on Google Classroom for the students to review. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to their final project for Unit 1: a 'Future Self-portrait.' In this document, students must prove to me that they have truly grasped the idea of empowerment by answering questions, considering their own futures, and by categorizing different situations. Students will have two more classes to complete this work. If it's not complete in class time, it will be set for homework and due on Oct. 7th. I don't foresee many people needing to take it home. I believe that with concentration, all students can be finished this by Friday of this week. Mathematics Assigned By: Daniel Morgan Unit 1 Quiz is on Wednesday Oct. 9th There is some great practice on the google classroom! Code: vty866 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins We started reading our first short story: 'Higher Animals.' We will conclude it next class with a focus on plot development and character development. October 1, 2019 Health Assigned By: Daniel Morgan Health Journal #1 is from today is due next Thursday, Oct 10th. Answer the question prompt from class (written or typed) and keep the short activity log. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 1 quiz on Friday, Oct. 4. Review :) On Thursday, students will do an online practice quiz. I will be taking multiple choice from the online practice to put on the test. Yes, you read that correctly. Students can still have access and review these multiple choice. Also, they should have the worksheets done. I also usually take a couple of things from there to put on the test. How much of those worksheets does your child have done. Are they reviewing them? We will be doing a Science lab this week. Each student will do their own lab write-up. I have posted information on Google Classroom for the students to review. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their Unit one Case Study. Those who were absent will write it upon their return. Students have one more piece of work for this unit: an in-class project. I will introduce it next day and you will begin work on this during class time. If you work efficiently, there should be no reason to be working on this at home. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students did a practice round for their 'Qu'est-ce que c'est' oral presentations. 4 groups practiced in front of the class. Those 4 will be evaluated for a speaking mark tomorrow. Everyone else will have their practice round tomorrow and will be expected to present for their mark on Thursday. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Don't forget the 'Fill the Tractor' food drive! Thanks to those who have already donated! Picture orders due by Oct. 10th. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Have you finished your book report novel yet? If so, start writing your template (the long sheet). The rough copy - the template - is due on Nov. 1st. But get it in sooner if you are done! Once you get the rough copy back from me, you will be expected to write (or type) a 5-paragraph essay about your book (based on the 5 sections of the template). This is due in on Nov. 13th. September 30, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 1 quiz on Friday, Oct. 4. Review :) We will be doing a Science lab this week. Each student will do their own lab write-up. I have posted information on Google Classroom for the students to review. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students did an in-depth analysis using the 'THEIVES' method for reading expository texts for their case study tomorrow. The case study is found on pg. 16-20 of your textbook and the questions I give to you tomorrow will be based on that reading and on the general notion of empowerment and disempowerment discussed do far. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received their grammar tests back. Please review it for any commentary I have made. Also, check it over and make sure I have given you everything you deserve. I can make mistakes! :) We began looking into short stories byt going over some terms (students were provided with a list of terms and their definitions). We also began notes on the four major parts of a short story: the plot, characters, setting, and theme. Once we review this, we will begin short story analysis in class. This section will have a reading test, a listening test, and a representing evaluation. You will also be tasked with writing your own short story at the end of our unit of study. Reminder: Book report deadlines are approaching. 1. The template (on long paper handed out in class) is due on Nov. 1. Get it in earlier if you wish, and I will give it back to you earlier! 2. The final book report (5-paragraph essay) is due in on Nov. 13th. September 27, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Don't forget the food drive! Thanks to those who have already donated! Picture orders due by Oct. 10th. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Review of Chapter 1 is complete. Chapter 1 quiz on Friday, Oct. 4. Review :) We will be doing a Science lab next week. Each student will do their own lab write-up. I have posted information on Google Classroom for the students to review. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their ELA Grammar tests. Marks will be available on Powerschool some time soon - perhaps even this afternoon. I'll pass them back ASAP. September 26, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Review of Chapter 1 is complete. Chapter 1 quiz on Friday, Oct. 4. Review :) We will be doing a Science lab next week. Each student will do their own lab write-up. I have posted information on Google Classroom for the students to review. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed all notes and checked their binders to assure they had a full set of notes. We also corrected the 'Common mistakes' sheet together. Finally, I distributed a revision sheet as extra practice for tomorrow's grammar test. Please study tonight with your notes, your study guide, your worksheets. But, that's not all: Please review the tips I gave to you for studying and make sure you are studying to help you with how you learn BEST! If you find yourself in a situation where you do not have access to your notes/binder, they are all posted to Google Classroom. Not joined yet? (there are 5 people not yet on!) Join tonight. The code is: sevcl7t Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished their study of empowerment by examining those who do not have it. This leads us into our first case study nicely. Case study: Tuesday, Oct. 1 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued practicing their interviews with their partners. The presentation date is still scheduled for Oct. 2nd. However, I may be revising that,as it seems that students may need another class for practice. I will discuss this with the students tomorrow. September 25, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Keep those donations coming for our Fill the Tractor campaign! Picture orders are due in to me or submitted online by Oct. 10th Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 1 quiz on Friday, Oct. 4. Review :) Also, I have posted the marks to the Lab Safety quiz on PowerSchool. Have a look and see how your child did. Students will get their quiz back tomorrow. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up their study of the parts of speech. We also worked on a 'commom mistakes' sheet today that people did well on! I passed out a study guide for your test. All notes, study guide, and a sampling of the worksheets are found on Google Classroom. Don't have the code? You should. But here it is for you: sevcl7t Your test is Friday. Tomorrow will be a revision class. Happy studying. September 24, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Thanks to those who brought in donations for our 'Fill the Tractor' campaign! Let's keep those non-perishable donations coming in! Pictures were sent home today. If you'd like to order online, or send in your order form and money to me, the deadline is Oct. 10th Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 1 quiz is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 4. Review :) French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were working together with partners to complete their 'entrevue' using the 'Qu'est-ce que c'est' and 'C'est un/une/le/la/les' style we have been using in class. Students will use another class to practice and will be expected to deliver their 'entrevue' to the entire class on Wed. Oct 2. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued learning the concept of empowerment: cultural, political, and economic empowerment to be exact. We will move on to the other two next class. Empowerment case study: Tuesday, Oct. 1st. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students corrected conjunctions and moved on to prepositions. We have our grammar test coming up in three days. Are you studying? Grammar test: Friday, Sept. 27th. September 23, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Today was the beginning of our Fill the Tractor campaign. Please bring in non-perishable food items in support of the food bank. Art Assigned By: Kathleen Vaughan Make sure you have your monochromatic painting plan ready to go for September 25th! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds The Lab Safety quiz is Wednesday, Sept. 25. If you were not able to see me during Curriculum night, last night. I have a power point that I presented. Email me at charlessimmonds@nlesd.ca if you would like a copy. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to their first evaluation. They were paired up to create a “qu’est-ce que c’est” interview. Students will have 2 classes to work on their writing, visuals and pronouncing. I will be evaluating their oral presentation on Wed. Oct. 2 Mathematics Assigned By: Daniel Morgan Finish the Divisibility Foldable if it was not completed in class. The foldable must be passed in on Wednesday Sept. 25th!! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued discussing empowerment. Remember you will be writing a case study on empowerment (reading an article based on the idea of power and authority) on Oct. 1st Due to the high number of students without their texts today, I have issued a warning: anyone without their text tomorrow must spend recess with me. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students corrected adverbs work and began conjunctions. Please have the first page of the worksheet completed for homework if not done in class. September 20, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds The Lab Safety quiz is moved to Wednesday, Sept. 25. If you were not able to see me during Curriculum night, last night. I have a power point that I presented. Email me at charlessimmonds@nlesd.ca if you would like a copy. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students read their novels for the book report. Most students have informed me what they will be reading for the report and I have okayed their choices. If you have not yet informed me, I have sent you and your guardian a reminder email that you must do so this weekend. Please do this so I can verify if the book is appropriate for you. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students whose parents / guardians did not receive Powerschool user names or passwords last night during Curriculum Night were sent home with them today. Please log on to Powerschool via a web browser or download the app. It is a very useful tool to track progress and attendance. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students revised school items and rooms of the school. This is in preparation for a speaking piece I will introduce next week. September 19, 2019 Art Assigned By: Kathleen Vaughan All Element of Design posters should be in to me.(Due date Sept 16) If you have not passed it in, get it in ASAP! Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students participated in the Terry Fox Walk. Our class raised over $33, and the whole school raised just over $300. Thanks for your support! Students also visited the tech lab to ensure they had access to the school network. All students could access it and have changed their passwords to something they have promised me they will not forget. All students but 4 could access their gmails. A request has been sent for those individuals to get new passwords so they can access Google in order to participate in Google Classroom activities in school this year. Mathematics Assigned By: Daniel Morgan Use your @nlesd.ca account to sign into Google Classroom! Password:vty866 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds My apologies, but the Lab Safety quiz is moved to Wednesday, Sept. 25. This is to ensure that students who receive accommodations get the supports on the same day as all other students in the class are writing the test. This ensures other students do not lose class time in Science. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up their verbs study and moved on to adverbs. Numbers 1 and 2 on the adverbs worksheet are set for homework if not completed in class time. Grammar test date: Friday, Sept. 27th. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students discussed empowerment and authority in class today. We then began to examine the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Empowerment Case Study date: Tuesday, October 1st. September 18, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please bring donations for the Terry Fox Walk tomorrow! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds My apologies, but the Lab Safety quiz is moved to Wednesday, Sept. 25. This is to ensure that students who receive accommodations get the supports on the same day as all other students in the class are writing the test. This ensures other students do not lose class time in Science. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students corrected the first two verbs worksheets and continued work on the last three. These sheets are now set for homework if they were not complete during class time. September 17, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please make note that if the Terry Fox Walk goes ahead on Thursday, we will be collecting funds in support of Cancer research. Also, have you signed in to the Google Classrooms for my subjects? There are still many who have not. Please follow the steps below: 1. Sign in to their NLESD gmail account. 2. Click on Google Classroom (found in the upper right-hand 'waffle' of choices) 3. Join the following classes: -ELA sevcl7t -Socials 9rjj86 -Core French ir3epp -Religion xe07k0w Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received notes and activities on verbs. Please make sure you have the first two activities completed if not done in class: 1. Activity 65 on verbs and direct objects. 2. Activity 67 (just the paragraph) on verbs and direct objects. I will be checking for completion of these two activities tomorrow. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Apologies but the Science lab safety quiz is moved to Tuesday, Sept. 24 as I do not have this class again til that date. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began Unit one today. There will be no test for this first unit. Students have three evaluations: 1. Map of Canada - already completed. 2. Case study - in about two weeks. 3. In-class project - to be completed in class in approximately a week and a half. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students corrected the 'Qu'est-ce que c'est?' worksheet and we then got into partners and worked on 'Qu'est-ce que c'est?' Flash cards. Most students seemed to enjoy this a lot and feedback suggested that 14/22 students learned something new by do it. September 16, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are encouraged to bring in a monetary donation this coming Thursday. We will be participating in the Terry Fox Walk in support of Cancer research. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were reminded to have a novel decided by this coming Friday. Rough copies of your book report template are due on Nov. 1. Final 5-paragraph essays are due on Nov. 13th. We continued grammar work with pronouns and adjectives. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Science lab safety quiz is moved to Monday, Sept. 23. September 13, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were asked to do some homework this weekend for all my courses: 1. Sign in to their NLESD gmail account. 2. Click on Google Classroom (found in the upper right-hand 'waffle' of choices) 3. Join the following classes: -ELA sevcl7t -Socials 9rjj86 -Core French ir3epp -Religion xe07k0w French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on their'mots scolaires' and did a fantastic job of pronouncing these words with the expressions 'Qu'est-ce que c'est?' and 'C'est un/une.' They then worked on the worksheet of the same activity. We will correct this next class. No set homework. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their second day to work on their map of Canada. Most finished in class time. If you did not, it is for homework. I will collect them on Monday, September 16th. This map will be evaluated for a mark on Powerschool. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Science lab safety quiz is Friday, Sept. 20. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received a 'study tips' sheet. Keep it an reference it when studying, please! Students also discussed their book reports. All students must have a novel (okayed by me) chosen by next Friday, Sept. 20th. They must have their rough draft of their book report in to me by Nov. 1. Their final 5-paragraph essay will then be due on November 13th. We continued work on pronouns. September 12, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students started a mapping activity on the provinces and capitals of Canada. We will conclude this activity in one more class. What is not completed then will be sent home. This must me returned to me for evaluation by Monday, September 16th. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students concluded their 'salles de classes' work, and began the study of more school words. We will continue this next day. No set homework. But revision is always useful! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students corrected their work on nouns. We moved on to pronouns and began that work. We will continue next class. No set homework. But revision is always useful! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Science lab safety quiz is Friday, Sept. 20. September 11, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Science lab safety quiz is Friday, Sept. 20. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their reading period today. Some students signed out material from the library. Please take good care of it. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on the rooms in the school. They matched terms on the Smartboard and all had a chance to speak in class. We will move on to another school concept next day. September 10, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on an activity to help them better understand empowerment: the key concept of the year. We then began a map of Canada (since we are studying Canadian history). This will be the students' first evaluative piece. We will continue this work over the next few days. This will be due on Monday, Sept. 16 if not completed in class time. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students revised nouns: common and proper. We then worked on a worksheet about finding nouns and creating proper nouns from common ones. If this was not completed in class, it is now set for homework. I will do a homework check next class. September 9, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Tomorrow is day 5 on your schedule. electronic copies of your schedules were emailed out to parents today. Please contact me if you did not receive one. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins We completed a 'Multiple Intelligence' assessment for me which will allow me to get to know them better. Tomorrow you will receive study tips based on your results. We will also begin the curriculum. September 6, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Monday will be day 4 on your schedules. Please come prepared for those courses. If you have not yet handed in your information forms to me, please do so on Monday morning. These were due today. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins I checked all binders to verify that all were organized into 5 sections (Poetry, Grammar, Novels, Short Story, Speech). If yours was not completed, it must be done for Monday's class. Students began a multiple intelligence test which we will complete together and I will analyse. This will help me get to know each learner better. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received course descriptors for Socials Studies and we did a group activity on equality versus equity. This leads nicely into the topic for this year's Social Studies program: empowerment. Textbooks will be distributed next class and we will begin the course. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received course descriptors for French and began a scavenger hunt activity for different rooms around the school. Unfortunately, due to too much chatter, we had to cut the activity short and return to class. The remaining rooms which were left were discussed in the classroom. All answers can be found on Google Classroom. Once students gain access to the Google Accounts, I will set them up on Google Classroom for all my courses. September 5, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please make every effort to return the documents below by tomorrow: 1. A blue coloured Tech Agreement form which needs to be read, and signed by you and your child. 2. A white sheet with Medical information (please fill this out even if there is no medical condition) 3. A purple Early School Closure form 4. An orange coloured Media Consent form (please tick the appropriate box and sign this) 5. A white coloured Demographics form. If there are no changes to be made, return it as is. If you need to add new information or fix out-dated information, please make those changes on the right-hand side of the sheet below the 'Changes' column. ****Tomorrow is picture day!**** Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received the course descriptors for ELA 7. We also organized our binders into 5 sections with tabs. Homework for tonight: complete this organization if not done in class time. You should have the following divided sections in your ELA binder: 1. Poetry 2. Grammar 3. Novels 4. Short Story 5. Speeches September 4, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please read, sign, and return the following documents by Friday, Sept. 6th: 1. A blue coloured Tech Agreement form which needs to be read, and signed by you and your child. 2. A white sheet with Medical information (please fill this out even if there is no medical condition) 3. A purple Early School Closure form 4. An orange coloured Media Consent form (please tick the appropriate box and sign this) 5. A white coloured Demographics form. If there are no changes to be made, return it as is. If you need to add new information or fix out-dated information, please make those changes on the right-hand side of the sheet below the 'Changes' column. June 18, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued work on the short story practice examples provided to the class on Friday, June 14. One such example can now be found on Google Classroom. The other one, you can continue on your own. Tomorrow from 8:45-10:45, you will be writing your ELA final exam. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins All students should have their Louis Riel activity submitted to me now. This will be your final evaluation for the year. If it is not submitted, it is up to you to do it ASAP. June 17, 2019 Music Assigned By: Alanna Fitzpatrick If you have not submitted all of your assignments, you must do so ASAP. 0% has been put in PowerSchool for any missing work, and parents have been contacted. June 14, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students who did not get a chance to conclude the Louis Riel assignment today will have time on Tuesday for this. This assignment was performed over three class periods and will be evaluated to be added to your final grade in Socials. Do your best! Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please remember that Monday is a PL day for teachers. School is open for regular classes on Tuesday. And exams begin on Wednesday. The 7-3s are writing all exams in room 213. They are as follows: Wednesday, June 19th - ELA Thursday, June 20th - Sciences Friday, June 21st - Math June 13, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Due to my absence yesterday, I will post homework/class progress for the past two days: June 12 - students worked on knowing the five major aspects of literature in both Home Child and Among the Hidden. These aspects are: theme, conflict, characters, plot, and setting. This was useful review, not only as practice for your unseen story, but in the event you receive a question which asks you to reflect back to another work you studied: now you can review those two major works! June 13th - we played a poetry revision game. We then looked at model paragraphs for answers. Students were then tasked with creating a paragraph like the model one given. This should build up your confidence in creating well-rounded, fully-supported responses. June 11, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students did a viewing activity today on Among the Hidden. This was great preparation work for your exam, as there will be a viewing section on your exam. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were presented with futur proche. After learning how to formulate it, they read a small text (as a group) and summarized the reading by using this verb tense and words they already knew. They collectively created three solid sentences in the French language! Way to go! Keep this in mind for your last few classes. This activity will come up again. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned about Louis Riel and the Red River Rebellion. Tomorrow, you will be placed in groups in order to complete the assignment associated with this topic. This will be collected in for your final mark in Social Studies. Everybody must remain focused and contribute to this project. Hang in there! Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Permission to study at home/ or to study here at study hall must be submitted to me by Friday. June 10, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens We began unit 8 today and covered parallel and perpendicular lines. Students should be working on their exam review and going over their notes and old tests and assignments. I will be around everyday after school for an hour for students to work on math and ask questions pertaining to their exam review. Students will not be permitted to stay if they have been wasting class time, and if they show up and are disruptive or wasting time, they will be asked to leave. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Today was the due date for the Among the Hidden novel study projects. Tomorrow, you will write a short viewing assessment about the novel, then we will begin exam review in earnest. Please come prepared with your binder, as I will be making reference to all major units studied this year. Technology Ed. Assigned By: Tammy O~Brien Students had a final class to work on their final tech projects. There is quite a few not passed in yet but there is no other class time to work on these. I stayed after school to help students complete these but there was many student who were not finished who did not stay. I Am staying after school again tomorrow to help students complete these. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began learning about les phenemenes canadiens. We will spend the rest of the year doing activities on strange Canadian phenomena. It should be fun! June 7, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed short story terms and played Jeopardy game! I hope you had a bit of fun. But mostly, I hope you made note of some of the terms that threw you off. Now you will know what to focus your studies on. Don't forget what I said today. Knowing the terms is only half the battle: you need to apply that knowledge. So, next week, we will be doing practice short stories. Use these, along with all your short stories you have done this year as study tools. We will move on to more review next week: we will be reviewing poetry (primarily terms, as poetry will not be on the exam, but figurative language could be), narrative essays, novel studies, and proper paragraph structure. If you have not started your studies yet... START! There are still a few students not done their 3 novel study projects: Those are due in on Monday, June 10th. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned about the western expansion by the homesteading program. They also learned about the marginalized/disempowered Chinese railway workers. This will set you up nicely for your in-class project which will span three classes next week. This will be your final project of the year. You are expected to be here. You are expected to perform to your absolute best. No exceptions. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up their class time on the Grand Voyage final project: a Google Classroom brochure. This should be turned in to me now. If not, it is now for homework. I may start correcting these this weekend. Otherwise it will be next week. Get it done before I begin correcting it. It will not be something you want to worry about leading up to your exams. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Next week is the deadline for the study hall/study at home permission forms. Please bring these in. June 6, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their last working class on the novel study projects for Among the Hidden. All three projects are now for homework if not completed in class. These are due no later than June 10th. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Study for exams! Please bring in your exam study hall/study at home permission sheet. Technology Ed. Assigned By: Tammy O~Brien Design portfolios (storybook projects) are due on Friday June 14. I am staying after school today and Monday to help students get these completed. June 3, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens A reminder of your inclass assignment on Wednesday and Test on Friday. This is on all of unit 7. You should also be working on the exam review (pink sheets) that were given in class. Make sure you have these with you during class time in case you finish other work. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had day one of four to work on three Among the Hidden projects. After Thursday's class, no more class time will be given. Projects are not due until June 10th. If you need extra time or help after Thursday, YOU MUST COME SEE ME! I will be more than happy to work out a time with you to sit down and help! :) French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Grand Voyage projects continued today. Students have one more class in the tech lab to work on these. Due date: June 7th. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began looking at the western provinces and how they formed throughout the 1870s and 80s. We will continue with this for the remainder of the year. If you did not finish your Canada circa 1873 map today, you will have about 10 minutes to conclude it next class. May 31, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Today's Socials class was, instead, and exam preparation class prepared by Ms. Miles! Thanks so much to Ms. Miles for giving some great tips, and a little prize to all the 7-3s! Please be advised, however, for Socials, you had your confederation booklet to hand in today. So, if that was not submitted today, I will be looking for it on Monday! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had day 3 of 4 in the tech lab working on their travel brochures. If you are missing time on this, the entire assignment is found on Google Classroom. The due date is firm and final for June 7. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to the novel study projects. Please see an explanation of these on the ELA Google Classroom page. Students will have 4 working classes in school (that means next week, you will have Monday - Thursday to work on these.) After this, if you are not finished, you will have to complete the remaining work at home or after school hours. Final submission of these projects will be June 10th. May 30, 2019 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Even though there were some tech difficulties, students got about 20 minutes of internet access to work on their Grand Voyage brochures. The deadline, at this point, will still remain the same. I have booked three other classes in the tech. lab: more than enough time to complete your brochures if you are working! However, if other tech, issues arise, I MAY consider a due date change. The due date is June 7. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on a brainstorming activity about theme, setting, plot, conflict and characters of Among the Hidden. I will introduce your novel study activities to you next class. This novel study is INDIVIDUAL. I expect quite focus and concentration in order to complete these assessments. May 29, 2019 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to their projet final for this unit: a travel brochure. Students had time to pick a place and begin preliminary research on that place today. Over the next four periods, we will find ourselves in the tech.lab in order to complete the online Google Classroom brochure. If you miss class time, it is all found online, so you can work on it at home. The due date is firmly June 7. I will be evaluating what you have completed on that date. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Unit 4 test on Thursday, June 6! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins We finished our examination of the colonies and their decisions to confederate or not. Students were given ample class time to conclude their booklets. I collected in most completed booklets today. If yours is among one of those I did not collect in, it is now set for homework. I will be collecting these in next Socials class to evaluate. No exceptions. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their day in the tech. lab to type up their descriptive paragraphs. Most have turned them in. If you have not yet, this is now set for homework with a final deadline of this Friday. Please click 'turn in' so I know you are done. If you do not, by Friday, I will grade whatever it is you have completed. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please remember your permission forms for study hall at school or study time at home. I need all forms regardless of which option you choose. Thanks! May 28, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Today was editing day! I hope you all took away something from the suggestions your editors gave you. I also hope you concentrated and gave your best effort at editing. This will only improve your own writing style! Tomorrow's classes are reversed due to tech. lab availability. You will be going to the tech lab during period 5 to type your final copy of the descriptive paragraph. Great work today to all the editors! May 27, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their descriptive paragraphs today. Please note that tomorrow, you will be placed in peer groups to edit another student's work. Wednesday, you will be in the tech lab to type up your final copy for submission on Google Classroom. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned how, when and why PEI and Nova Scotia decide to confederate. You will be given about 10-15 more minutes next class to finish this section of the booklet up. Then, we will be moving on to NL and finishing up the booklets next class. May 24, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their final reading comprehension quiz today. I also introduced the first of 4 projects related to this chapter: a descriptive paragraph. Students began writing today, will continue writing on Monday, will peer edit on Tuesday, and will type up a final copy of Wednesday. (See the image posted to Google Classroom as well.) If any of these classes are missed, students must keep up with the work on their own. The typed copy will be through your ELA classroom on Google Classroom, so that can be accessed in school or at home. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned about the Province of Canada, and the Colony of New Brunswick, and how they presented the idea of confederation to their public. We will move on to NS. PEI and NL next class. May 23, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins We have now finished reading the novel Among the Hidden. Tomorrow, you will have your last reading comprehension test. After this, I will be presenting the class with their projects for this novel study. These projects will entail reading, writing, and representing outcomes. Students will have choice in some projects. Students will be working on all of these INDIVIDUALLY. You will be encouraged to use your notes, the novel, and any other aid to help you. But you will not be given permission to share your work with others. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Due to our missed class this morning, I have given you a choice: hand in your booklets for ch. 7 (up to #12) today, or first thing tomorrow morning. Please note that if you choose to hand it in tomorrow morning, I expect it at 8:15. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students completed their imperative activities. You are all set to start your 'projet final' for this unit. I will be introducing this next class. It will be a Google Classroom assignment. Use your notes and the template I will give you to complete this work. You should NOT be copying/translating/pasting. May 22, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are responsible to have numbers 1-12 completed in their Social Studies booklets. I will be taking them in tomorrow to spot check. This will be for a mark. So if it is not completed, your mark will reflect your effort. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 11 quiz on Wednesday, May 29. Unit 4 test on Thursday, June 6! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students read silently chapter 27 and 28. Tomorrow we will finish the novel together. This means I will be introducing your projects, and you will be writing one final reading comprehension quiz. Stay tuned! Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please return the study permission form to me as soon as you can. May 21, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens A reminder of your math test on Unit 6 tomorrow. You wrote the in class assignment for this last Wednesday and they were given back today. Please review your notes. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students read chapters 25 and 26 today aloud. Next class will be a silent reading period of chapters 27 and 28. Please keep in mind that your third reading comp. test is coming up after chapter 30! Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please return your study hall permission forms as soon as possible! May 16, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students read independently chapters 23 and 24. Next class we will read together chapters 25 and 26. As we are concluding, keep in mind that there is one more reading comprehension quiz, then you will be presented with your final novel study project. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students got their Grand Voyage tests back. Mark are on Powerschool. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Enjoy your extra long May 24th weekend! :) May 15, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were given a workbook for ch.7. We discussed confederation and why some colonies wanted to unify. You are responsible for knowing this information and completing the questions regarding this. I will be randomly taking in your workbooks and assessing your work for a mark. You should have questions 1-5 completed. If not, it is now homework. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their second reading comprehension test for this novel Among the Hidden. These will be corrected ASAP. If marks on this one were higher than the previous test, they will be reflected on Powerschool. If marks were lower or the same, the mark already in Powerschool will remain the same. We also read ch. 21 and 22. Students then considered the guided reading questions with friends. Tomorrow's class we will move on to chapter 23 and 24 and students will be reading silently. May 14, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students silently read ch. 19 and 20 of Among the Hidden. Please recall how this novel study will go: I will read two chapters aloud, you will read two chapters silently. If, for any reason, you find yourself falling behind. YOU NEED TO COME AND SEE ME. The expectation of independent reading and comprehension is on YOU for half of this novel. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Tammy O~Brien Please bring back Swimming Field trip permission forms and money to Ms. O'Brien by Thursday at the latest. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students have passed in their rites of passage projects and their Social Studies booklets. If one of these was not completed, tomorrow is your deadline before home contact must be made. Students were given their chapter 7 booklet.. We will begin this tomorrow. Please bring your text and this booklet to class. May 13, 2019 Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their last working class on their Judaism rite of passage invitation. It is now set for homework. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were informed today that their booklets for ch. 6 are due tomorrow. These should have been completed prior to your test last week. If they were not, students were given time to conclude them if they finished up their religion invitation. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins We read ch. 17 and 18 of Among the Hidden. The students will read ch. 19 and 20 silently tomorrow. Which means Wednesday they will write their comprehension test for chapters 11-20. It should only take 5-10 minutes. After this, we will continue reading the novel. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned about the imperative tense. They also learned several words in the imperative, like 'discover, come, see, visit, explore', etc. These words will be enforced over the next few days of activities. They will also be useful for the final project for this unit which we will be beginning soon. May 10, 2019 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students did some word find, and survey review on places and modes of transport. I then set students to work on pages 8-11 of the text. They were to review the three tourist posters and try to find information they have already built upon this year: ex: 'Une activite' in which they would look for their 'faire' verb, or 'modes de transport' in which they would try and find a mode of transport word they just recently learned. This is a pre-learning activity to the next portion of this unit. Many students found this effective and could pick out quite a bit on their own. I will begin lessons on these topics next class. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had a silent reading period in which they were tasked with reading ch. 15 and 16 of Among the Hidden. Then they were to work through the guided reading questions for these chapters. Please remember we continue with 2 chapters every day. If you find you are falling behind, please find a way to catch up. You can read on your own, or you can come see me. I will be more than happy to work with you through this novel study outside of class time. Students will be writing another quick reading comprehension test once we get up to chapter 20 completed. This is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday of next week. It will take approximately 5-10 minutes. After this, we will continue reading the novel. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students started their Jewish rites of passage invitations. Students worked well. We will have one more class to complete this. If invitations are not complete after that time, they will be sent home for homework. May 9, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins We read ch. 13 and 14 of Among the Hidden together. Tomorrow we will be reading silently chapters 15 and 16. Please keep up-to-date with this novel. If you are not caught up and would like help/clarification you must come see me. We will continue to progress by two chapters every day. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their listening/ writing/reading test today. Look for marks on Powerschool soon. But be patient, I am still correcting your Socials tests from Monday! :) Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder that students are working on Religion projects on Jewish rites of passage. Please bring the appropriate materials to class. This work will continue tomorrow, and (if work ethic is strong and you still need more time) Monday. May 8, 2019 Music Assigned By: Alanna Fitzpatrick Please bring headphones for tomorrow's music class!!!!!! May 7, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens We went over 6.3 today. We will finish the last few examples at the end of the handout tomorrow. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Listening, writing, reading test on Thursday! Review sheets were distributed last week, notes are online. We will review tomorrow and, if time allows, practice a mock test in preparation for Thursday's test. May 6, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 10 Science test on Wednesday, May 8. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their Social Studies tests today. Next class we will move on with Religion. Please come prepared. I will announce the date of submission of the ch. 6 booklets during tomorrow's class... though everyone should have them done now. May 2, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Review class will be tomorrow! Test on Monday! See previous post for the test format. Happy studying! Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Finish page 229 #'s 1-3 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students participated in an oral activity with the word 'voyager' and their modes of transport. Good job to everyone! Review sheets were distributed in order to prepare for Thursday's test. It will be comprised of reading, writing, and listening sections. May 1, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds This is a change from yesterday's note: Chapter 10 Science test on Wednesday, May 8. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Since Monday we have begun our second novel study: Among the Hidden. Students have now finished 4 chapters. This novel study, students will be reading two chapters independently, then I will read the next two aloud and we will answer questions and discuss significant topics. I have iterated that students need to keep up with daily readings (whether independent, or as a group) so if students fall behind, miss class time, or get stuck, they need to seek me out and stay behind. We will continue reading new chapters every day. There will also be three reading comprehension tests during this analysis. After we have concluded the novel, there will be a final project as well. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished off the chapter today and finished off their booklets. test is Monday, May 6th Format is: Multiple Choice True and False One question all students must answer A choice of 2 other questions to answer. Notes are on Google Classroom. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Listening, writing, reading test coming up on May 9th. April 30, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 10 Science test on Friday, May 10. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins A reading, writing, and listening test has been planned for our 'Grand Voyage' Unit. It will be on Thursday, May 9th. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please keep in mind that you have your ch. 5 test coming up on Monday, May 6. April 29, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed everything covered before Easter. We will finish off the chapter next day and prepare for your test on Monday, May 6th! Music Assigned By: Alanna Fitzpatrick PLEASE BRING HEADPHONES FOR TOMORROW'S CLASS!!!!! :) Body Percussion assignment marks have been posted in PowerSchool. April 17, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 6 test will be on Monday, May 6th April 16, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are continuing their speech presentations. Congratulations to everyone! You are all doing wonderfully. April 15, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students started their final evaluation round of their speeches. Great job by everyone who presented today! Way to go! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned to use the appropriate prepositions for traveling to all provinces and territories in Canada. Please review this, all genders of provinces, and all their articles. You will be having a test some time soon after Easter break on this information. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed how newspapers played a role in the evolution of government in the 1800s. They read a case study and answered questions in their booklets on Joseph Howe. If you are missing class time, please be aware that as we move through this booklet, we are moving through your notes. You are expected to complete this booklet as this will act as your notes after Easter when we have our test. April 12, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Final presentations for speeches begin on Monday. Please come prepared to deliver your speeches on Monday for a mark. April 11, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded that final evaluation rounds of their speeches will begin on Monday. Order will be randomly selected, so everyone must be prepared on Monday. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned about prepositions a, en, dans, de today. We will be combining those with our Canadian provinces/territories so you can formulate sentences about traveling to and from different places in Canada. April 10, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up their practice rounds of their speeches. Please be aware that if you needed to add time, you were given suggestions today of how to do so. Everyone who presented did a terrific job! You should be very proud of yourselves! I can't wait to here them all again next week, but this time polished off and with (a little) less stress behind them, now that you've tackled the first round! Way to go! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued their study of the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions today by watching a portion of the docu-series 'Canada: a People's history.' We will continue on with the political changes in BNA. Your test for this chapter will be after the Easter break. I will plan it in the coming days, but will make sure you do not come directly back to it. There will be a few days leading in before the test. April 9, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens In class assignment on Unit 5 will be written on Friday, April 12. The test will be written on Wednesday, April 17. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began their practice rounds on speeches. Great work, from those who presented today. Please consider the feedback from me and your other respectful classmates. Great work everyone! April 8, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Students will do their Science Literacy in class assignment tomorrow. They should review the ones we've done in the past and remember the ideas about the Independent and Dependent variables that I have reviewing with them. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on a dictionary skills sheet today which we will continue at a later date. Tomorrow, all students will be asked to deliver their speeches at the podium for a practice round. Bring regular books, however, if we finish up early, we will continue our dictionary work. April 4, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Most students are done or almost done their Narrative essays. Tomorrow is your last class time to work on this. I will begin evaluating them this weekend. If you have not finished by tomorrow, please let me know! Speeches: practice with the podium will begin on Tuesday, April 9. Presentations for a mark will be the following week. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Islam booklets are overdue. All students and parents have been made aware if you have not submitted this. Please get these in or I will have to enact the evaluation policy! April 3, 2019 Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students who do not have their Islam booklets in have been made aware, and emails have been sent home. These are now overdue. Get these in please. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began ch. 6 today in Socials. Students will be presented with brief information from me via the notes, but the majority of the detail will be done independently through their booklets. This ch. 6 booklet will be the in-depth notes which should be used for study purposes. I will also be collecting this booklet in for a mark after the test. Please make every effort to stay up-to-date with the class on this booklet. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Many students are concluding their narrative essays. At this point, I have read and suggested edit to all students. If I do not get a second chance to edit your work before Friday, you must take my suggestions and apply them to the rest of your work. I will be reviewing these essays over the weekend, so the last day you will get to work on these will be Friday. Please budget your time wisely and conclude the essay. April 2, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their 2nd period for their narrative essay. Students have until Friday to conclude this. I have edited about 1/2 the class by now. I aim to have edited all by tomorrow. The rest of your work will be self-editing by following my suggestions. Speeches will resume next week: Nest Tuesday, there will be practice podium rounds. Followed immediately by final presentations of speeches during the week of April 15-18. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Islam booklets are now overdue. I will be asking for these tomorrow. If they are not submitted to me, emails will be sent to notify home April 1, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to their Narrative essay today. We spent two periods in the tech lab working on these. You will have 2-3 other periods (depending on class progress). Please work efficiently during class time. Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Work on the adding fractions sheet you were given today. You will complete a work sample tomorrow. Books can be used. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up their Islam assignment. If this is not complete, it is now homework. Please finish this up. I will be looking for these tomorrow. March 27, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished watching the film 'Akeelah and the Bee' and worked on their paragraph which summarizes a 'turning point' for Akeelah in this film. Please make sure your paragraph follows the PEEL format we have often discussed this year. Next class, I will introduce your final assignment for this 'Turning points' unit. Please make sure that you have everything else up-to-date in your booklet thus far, because once this final assignment it complete, I will be collecting in these booklets for evaluation. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins There will be a quick speaking assessment on April 2. Students are to use the vouloir verb and the name of a country (complete with the article) in a sentence about a classmate. Have you been going over those articles? If not, please do! March 26, 2019 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed the articles le, la, les, l' as they pertain to the names of places. We did an activity in class which is now on Google Classroom. Please review these places and their articles. You will need to know them for an upcoming portion of a writing and listening test (date to be determined) Students were also introduced to their first evaluation for this new unit of Le Grand Voyage: a speaking assessment. This will be done entirely in class time and will not need much preparation outside of class time. Students will be assessed on April 2. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students practiced in small groups for their speeches. Please note, due to circumstances beyond my control, every deadline from here-on-in gets pushed back by a week. I mentioned this in class today, but just so you have it written down: 1. Practice speeches with the podium will now be April 9. 2. Speeches delivered for a final mark will now be April 16. This means everyone gets an extra week to prepare! Please use this time wisely and do just that! Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are working on a booklet about Islam. This work will be done in class over the next few Social Studies periods. The booklets should all be completed by this Thursday. If they are not, the rest will be set for homework. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins It was announced today that tomorrow we will be raising funds for a family in the Goulds who lost their home to fire last week. Please bring a donation, you can wear your hat and/or pjs with a monetary donation! Let’s help this family out! March 25, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their ch. 5 test today. Our next few classes will be Religion. Please come prepared for that shift in your schedule! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began the film 'Akeelah and the Bee' today. Over the next few classes we will finish this up and make time to do the paragraph which corresponds with this in your Turning Points booklet. HOWEVER: tomorrow's class will be used for speech practices. You will need your speech on cue cards and have it rehearsed a bit in order to deliver these. Your classmates will complete a small feedback page which will help you in your preparation for delivery of the speeches. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students just began a new unit in Core French, so new booklets were distributed. As always, students must retain their own copies and submit them back to me once we are finished the unit. March 22, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 5 test on Monday! Happy studying! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Speeches should be on cue cards ready for our small group practice rounds on Tuesday. Cue cards have been available on my desk for the past several days. Have you taken yours? Next Tuesday, March 26, everyone will be delivering their speeches in front of the class as a practice. The following Tuesday: April 2 - speeches will be presented for a mark. March 21, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued working on their Turning Points booklet. We read the short story 'The Nest' and answered the questions in that activity. If you do not have these 5 activities completed, you are behind. Please set aside time to catch up: that time can be with me or on your own. We are moving on to the next activity during our next ELA class. How are your speeches coming along? Students should be transferring their rough copies on to cue cards now. Cue cards are readily available on my desk. Next Tuesday, March 26th we will be practicing our speeches in small groups for feedback. If you are not prepared to present, you will miss out on an opportunity to practice your speeches and receive feedback! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Science unit test on Chapter 7, 8 & 9 on Wednesday, March 27. We have completed the online multiple choice pre-test for chapter 9. Students have access to review multiple choice for chapters 7, 8 & 9. All answers to the worksheets are also posted on Google Classroom. Review previous chapter quizzes as well. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed and organized notes in preparation for Monday's test. Students then played a review game on Kahoot. Happy studying over the next few days! Any questions or concerns, let me know! The test format is: 1. Fill-in-the-blanks 2. Long answer question 3. Mapping French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had day one of two days in the tech lab/chrome book lab to do their Google Slide Show on a famous person. This project was discussed last week. It is also found on Google Classroom. Students will need to finish this project up by tomorrow afternoon. So concentration and hard work need to be at the forefront of your academic performance. If something impedes you from finishing up tomorrow afternoon, you need to inform me. Otherwise, I will be grading your work after school tomorrow. March 20, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their second working class on activity #4 in their Turning Points booklet. Please keep up-to-date with these activities. If you are falling behind, work on them on your own time, or stay back with me. I have a few students staying back tomorrow afternoon. Should you be one of them? Speeches need to be placed on cue cards and ready to present in small groups on March 26th. Cue cards are readily available on my desk! Please take them! If you are not ready for this date, you will only be placing yourself at a disadvantage. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder that you have a ch. 5 test coming up on Monday, March 25th. Please get reviewing. Notes can be found on Google Classroom. However, you have all been supplied with a full set of notes in your binders. Tomorrow's class, we will conclude a final point, plus play a revision game. Happy studying! Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins 50 50 tickets: please return these as soon as possible! Last call for used eyeglasses. The Lions Club will be picking up the donation on Friday. Thank you to those who already donated! March 19, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up the chapter today in preparation for the test on March 25. The notes are now found on google classroom. Students should all have their study guides. Please start preparing for your test! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their peer-editing day today. Those who were ready, I believe, found it to be a useful practice. Those who were not prepared for today, unfortunately missed out on a great opportunity to get feedback on their work. Please be mindful of the rest of the dates leading up to speech delivery time. Please make every effort to be ready on these dates: Tuesday, March 26th - Good copies on cue cards for an in-class practice in small groups, in which you will get feedback. Tuesday, April 2 - In class practices complete with the podium and full-class delivery. You will be getting feedback from me and your peers. Tuesday, April 9 - In class delivery for a speaking mark. March 17, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Math test for unit 4 will be moved to Wednesday, March 20th March 15, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to another 'Turning Points' activity: a creative writing piece. You will have one more period to work on this. If you were absent, you are responsible for what you missed. Please remember: Tuesday's class will be for speeches, so please bring in your speech on paper so a peer in class can edit it for you. If you fail to do this, you will not get another opportunity for peer editing. NOTE: I will not be allowing you to leave class to go and print your speeches. This needs to be done BEFORE CLASS TIME. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned more about the Irish in BNA. We then began discussing the French. Why are the Habs known as they Habs? You should know now! :) Ch. 5 test - March 25. Your study guides were distributed today. March 14, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins I hope everyone enjoyed their Winter Fun Day! Tomorrow is a regular school day. Come prepared to learn and grow! It will be day 5 on your schedule. March 13, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students completed activities 2 and 3 in their Turning Points booklets. We will be moving on to another activity during our next ELA class. Speech reminders: Tuesday, March 19, rough copies ready and brought to class for peer edits. Tuesday, March 26th - Good copies on cue cards for an in-class practice in small groups, in which you will get feedback. Tuesday, April 2 - In class practices complete with the podium and full-class delivery. You will be getting feedback from me and your peers. Tuesday, April 9 - In class delivery for a speaking mark. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 5 Socials test: March 25th! Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please return 50/50 tickets at your earliest convenience. Please submit extra eye glasses if you have any. March 12, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were sent home today with a booklet of 50/50 tickets. Please try your best to see if you can sell these and return the stubs to me along with the money as soon as possible. If you do not think you can sell them, please return the unsold tickets to me as soon as possible as well. If you'd like more, I have extras. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students should be working on their speeches. Up to this point, I still have 4 students who have not presented their proposal sheets to me. Please get these in. Your rough draft of your speech needs to be completed for March 19th. March 11, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins We recently began a booklet on Turning Points. So far we have discussed a person we admire. Students had an oppurtunity todat to hear about other classmates' people they admire. They then critiqued them on how to improve these paragraphs. This is in preparation for peer editing of speeches. Speeches: Students should be writing them, unless you have not consulted with me about your topic. There are still 3 students who have not. You need to give me your proposal ASAP. Rough drafts are due next Tuesday for peer editing! Speeches are written outside of class time. Music Assigned By: Alanna Fitzpatrick Your in-class evaluation is TOMORROW! Please review your rules for naming the notes of the treble (FACE, EGBDF) and bass (ACEG, GBDFA) clefs! Use the sites posted in our Google Classroom class to help you practice. Please remember that your rules must be MEMORIZED! You will not have a notes sheet to use for the evaluation. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up the documentary called 'Whose Land is it Anyway' on First Nations land claims and the repercussion of the land treaties. We will be moving on the the European immigrants of BNA soon. Your test will be announced later this week. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds On Wednesday, students will do an in-class assignment with aspects of graphing as we have done previously with the Science Literacy. Students just need to review aspects of how and where to place independent and dependent variables on a graph, as well as coming up with a title. Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens A reminder that your ICA on Unit 4 on Wednesday. Test is Tuesday, March 19. March 9, 2019 March 8, 2019 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students submitted their mots interrogatifs foldables today. This was a great way to help organize all your question words in preparation for your test on Monday, March 11. We spent today's class reviewing and doing exemplars in preparation for the test. Happy studying! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Yesterday, students did a case study on major industries by regions in BNA. I will be collecting these in next week for a mark. Please get them done if you did not clue up in class, or if you were absent. March 7, 2019 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Mots interrogatifs foldables are due in tomorrow. We will practice for our Reading test during tomorrow's class. The reading test is on Monday. March 6, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder to bring in glasses if you have extra unusable pairs for 'Team Broken Earth' French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Mots interrogatifs foldables due for Friday, March 8. Work on these will help you better understand your question words in preparation for your reading test next week, March 11. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Speech proposals were written today. If you do not have yours handed in to me for verification, you do not have permission to write your speech! If this was not finished in class today, it must be submitted to be tomorrow. The faster I can approve your proposal, the faster you can start writing. Please review the deadline dates posted here the other day. March 5, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 8 Science quiz on Friday, March 8th. Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens We'll start 4.6 tomorrow. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to their speeches. Today and tomorrow you will need to propose a topic to me. Once it is accepted, you may begin writing your speech. You will be doing most of the writing on your own time. So carve out time you'd like to stay with me, take it home for homework, or stay at homework haven. There are many ways to get this done! Please review the following dates: Tuesday, March 19, rough copies ready and brought to class for peer edits. Tuesday, March 26th - Good copies on cue cards for an in-class practice in small groups, in which you will get feedback. Tuesday, April 2 - In class practices complete with the podium and full-class delivery. You will be getting feedback from me and your peers. Tuesday, April 9 - In class delivery for a speaking mark. These dates are also on Google classroom. If you are late, not prepared, incomplete on any of these timelines, you are only hurting yourself because you are missing out on feedback. You will still have to deliver your speech on April 9th! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up their Mots interrogatifs foldables. These will be for homework if not done in class today. Due date: Friday, March 8. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students and parents are asked to contribute their used eye glasses to 'Team Broken Earth.' If you have any lying around, please send them in with your child and I will collect them. These will be put to good use for someone in need of vision correction in the developing world. February 27, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Unseen poetry test - This Friday! Poetry booklets, with all poems completed will be collected in on Monday, March 4 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Mots interrogatifs reading test - March 11. Music Assigned By: Alanna Fitzpatrick Marks for your Alphabet Story Assignments have been entered into PowerSchool. You need to be practicing your rules for the lines and spaces of the TREBLE and BASS CLEF staff! You need to MEMORIZE these rules! Your in-class assignment is scheduled for MONDAY, MARCH 12. Copy and paste this link to practice with the games we used in class: http://www.emusictheory.com/practice.html https://www.musictechteacher.com/index.htm February 26, 2019 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder: tomorrow in honour of our Pink Day festivities, please wear pink to proclaim you will stand up to bullying! February 25, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Science quiz pushed to tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 26. STILL WAITING FOR SOME SCIENCE PROJECTS! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Student analyzed the last poem today. If you did not attend today, you missed this. An image of our analysis can be found on Google classroom. You are now responsible for ALL questions in the poetry booklet. Reminder: unseen poetry test on Friday! Poetry booklets will ALL be submitted on Monday (March 4). Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins School clothing orders will be taken tomorrow! February 22, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Unseen poetry test: March 1! get preparing! This also means I will be collecting in your poetry studies on March 4th. No excuses for late submissions will be accepted. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students must review all question words from their notes. On Monday's class I will give anyone with questions a chance to ask those questions and I will do my best to clarify anything for you. If there are no questions, I assume everyone has a FULL UNDERSTANDING of all of these words and is ready to write a test for me on March 11. February 21, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins ch. 4 quiz tomorrow! format: A. 20 multiple choice questions B. do 2 out of 3 short answer questions Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students will have an unseen poetry test on March 1! This also means our poetry study is coming to an end. Therefore I will be collecting all poetry books on March 4. No extensions will be given. You have had plenty of time to complete each activity and even more chances presented to you to stay behind and clue up any missed work or work you have fallen behind in. YOU and only YOU must take ownership of your own education! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds The Chapter 7 science quiz is now moved to Monday, Feb. 25. I had hoped to give it tomorrow but made a mistake in the days I have certain classes, and a couple already have tests soooo the quiz will be on Monday. This is a small chapter that only took us 1 class to complete, so not a lot for the students to worry about. February 20, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens A reminder that you have a quiz on 4.1-4.4 on Friday, February 22. Finish both sides of Pizzazz sheet given in class today. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Don't forget about your quiz on Friday! Students will get their in-class graphing projects back tomorrow in time for review. February 19, 2019 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Hello Parents; A final reminder that the major Science projects for this year are due on Monday, Feb. 25. If your child is doing, Researching a Scientist, Science in the media or Researching a Career then these are digital projects that are to be completed in a Google format and emailed to me on Sunday, Feb. 24. Students have instructions on how to do this. If your child is doing a model or a game then it is due on Monday, Feb. 25. If your child is doing an experiment then the experiment write-up has to be completed but not all the results need to entirely done. Your child needs to chat with me about their experiment so I can check that everything is okay. If your child is doing a bridge then it must be in school on Monday, Feb. 25 for me to take pictures and verify it is done properly. Students will get their bridge back that week to take home. They will get a letter for you that will have our school time for the Bridge competition at the Geo Centre on Sat, March 2. All bridges must attend this competition to fulfill the project assignment. Please check with your child to see how things are going with their project. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up their in-class assignment on graphing today. Don't forget,you have a chapter 4 quiz on Friday! February 15, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 4 quiz - Friday, Feb 22. Start getting organized! Students are halfway through an in-class assignment on graphing and using statistics to formulate conclusions and predictions. We will finish this up in class. This work will be graded and placed on Powerschool. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up 'The Road Not Taken' and began a crossword terms study in preparation for Tuesday's poetry terms test. February 14, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Poetry terms test on Tuesday, Feb. 19! We will do a review tomorrow. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are concluding their statistics in-class assignments. Your test is scheduled for next week: Friday, Feb. 22. Study guides have been distributed and notes are available on Google Classroom if you do not have access to the paper copies distributed two weeks ago. February 13, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 4 quiz - Friday, Feb. 22. Students received their study guides today so you should begin your studies tonight. Please bring colouring things and your rulers to class over the next few days. You will be doing your in-class assignment on graphing statistics and drawing conclusions. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds A couple notes for Students & Parents; 1. Monday, Feb. 25 is deadline day for the major Science project this year. If there are any issues with your child's project please contact me over the next couple of days. Do not let your child leave the work for the last weekend. 2. Chapter 7 quiz is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 22. 3. Tomorrow & Friday we will be doing two Scientific Literacy quizzes. No study needed, just a review of how to complete a graph. 4. Changes to PowerSchool in Science will be completed by this Friday. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Poetry terms test - Tuesday, Feb. 19. Please remember that Monday is a holiday, so you must bring your terms home over the weekend to study. Any excuses of forgetting them and forgetting about the long weekend will not be acknowledged or entertained. I have mentioned this several times in class. February 12, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins ch. 4 quiz: Friday, Feb. 22 We are working on graphing data and analysing it. Please remember to bring rulers, and other geometrical devices to class! Music Assigned By: Alanna Fitzpatrick Today in class we started our work on note naming for the treble and bass staff. If you did not finish your sheets in class, please be sure to have these fully completed and ready to pass in at the BEGINNING of next music class. You will not have time in class to work on them. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on the 'The Dragon's lament' today. We analysed the poem, plus students were tasked with creating their own 'laments.' These will be collected when I take in your full poetry booklets after we have completed this unit. We only have a few more poems to go. Be prepared for test dates, and a final date for your booklet coming up soon! February 11, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Macavity posters were due today. If you did not submit, I will be contacting you shortly. We finished up work on 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' today. We will be moving on to a new poem tomorrow. If you are falling behind, you need to catch up on your own time. Come see me, take your work home, stay for homework haven... there are possibilities for you, but YOU have to do it! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed 'combien' questions. Most did fairly well with this! You're getting it. We worked on 'comment' today. We will move on to a new question word tomorrow. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 4 quiz: Friday, Feb. 22. We reviewed imports and exports. We also discussed how our economy is embroiled in politics, especially with our biggest economic contributor, the US. Finally, we looked at analyzing economic data (being out own mini-economists). Please bring rulers and other measuring tools to class next day, as we will be plotting data through graphs. February 8, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins There are still a few poetry terms foldables outstanding. Please make sure they are submitted to me ASAP Students analyzed the ballad 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' today in class. We will clue this up on Monday. I announced this today, and have been echoing this since September: If you find yourself falling behind/not comprehending, it is up to YOU to come see ME! I will be more than happy to stay with you and explain things, help you work through, give you time to write out answers. But you must come and see me. There are 25 of you and one of me. I need to keep up with curriculum and keep pace with most students. But if you NEED extra time / help I will be more than happy to give it to you! Some students have been availing of this, but others have not. Macavity posters are also due! Get these in ASAP! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked through different stations of 'combien' questions. They counted desks, students, countries, candies, magnets, pages, dice. then they practiced responding to these questions. I think everyone had a bit of fun! Students are to work through how to respond to 'combien' questions. I'll be asking everyone a 'combien' question on Monday. Your answer must include the il y a + the number + the thing. Or, it could be a 'combien ca coute' - which will be ca coute + the price. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Christianity history internet search activity: there are still a few outstanding! Please get these in! February 7, 2019 Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please pass in your religion internet search activity if it is not complete. There are still several outstanding projects! Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Tomorrow is hat day! Bring in a dollar to support the food sharing association. February 6, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up Macavity today, so as of now, all questions should be answered. I also introduced the representing project which goes with this assignment: a wanted poster of Macavity based on the descriptions in the poem. This is due on Feb.11, however, most students are close to finished, so I will be collecting it in on Friday as well. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Today the 'internet search' activity was due but many still do not have this done. Please get this in as soon as possible or I will have to enact the evaluation policy. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Hat day this Friday (along with $1) in support of the Food Sharing Association. February 5, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens We completed circumference problems in today's class. February 4, 2019 Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Internet search project is due on Wednesday! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on a listening poem today. If you were absent, I will need to deliver this poem to you at an alternate time. Please keep up-to-date with all the poems we analyse in class. I will be collecting in your booklets at the end of this unit for a mark. February 1, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Poetry terms foldable due on Monday! Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Internet search on Christianity and its history in NL due on Wednesday, Feb. 6th Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Science Unit test is Wednesday, Feb. 6 on Module 2. This date will not change. Please be reminded that the students have access to the work on Google Classroom and they can review their online practice quizzes as well. January 31, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Poetry terms foldable due on Monday, Feb. 4. We analysed a poem called 'Richard Cory' today. Please see Google classroom for our analysis. Students were set to work individually on interpreting and answering questions on this poem. They will have approximately 20 more minutes to work on this next class, but then we are moving on. These questions will be graded once the poetry unit is complete, so students must keep up-to-date with incomplete work at home. Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students did an online scavenger hunt for Christianity in Newfoundland and Labrador. This is the only class time you will get for this. I will be taking these in next week (Feb. 7) Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Science Unit test is Wednesday, Feb. 6 on Module 2. This date will not change. Please be reminded that the students have access to the work on Google Classroom and they can review their online practice quizzes as well. January 29, 2019 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received their listening and writing tests for jouer/faire today. Marks are on Powerschool. These tests were well-done. Don't forget, we are not done with jouer/faire, because you have a speaking evaluation tomorrow! Be prepared! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began a foldable on poetry terms today. This was the only class I will give to work on this. The rest of this must be completed at home. Due date: Monday, Feb. 4 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins test de ch.3 - demain! We spent some time studying today as a class. We reviewed all terms on the study guide and found the definitions in the notes. I hope this helps with your study tonight. For those who do not do this as a study technique, I hope you learned something new. This can help you organize your thoughts! January 28, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Tomorrow is your socials test! A few students stayed around this afternoon for help, but not many! Happy studying! Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Sketchbook activities and the 7 elements of Art poster are due in by the end of the day Wednesday! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Speaking evaluation on Tuesday! Your last practice session will be tomorrow! Come prepared to work and practice a lot. January 25, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Test is Tuesday. We worked on review sheets today. Test is Tuesday. We worked on review sheets today. Anyone who is missing assignments in math and health will be given a letter on Monday with list of missing assessments. These things can all be found on Google classroom and must be completed and submitted by next Friday. Videos for Health can be found on YouTube. Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Art Sketchbook activities are due by Monday, Jan. 28th. A list of activities have been posted to our Google classroom! January 24, 2019 Health Assigned By: Laura Clemens Finish Bad Blood worksheet if not finished in class. This can be found on google classroom for Health. Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Review for your test Monday. January 23, 2019 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on their faire/jouer partner work again. Presentation of these will be on January 30th. We have one more practice class. Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse All sketchbook activities are due by Friday, Jan. 25th. The list of activities has been posted to Google classroom! Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Finish worksheet given today. Assignment is tomorrow and is open book. Make sure you have your books and notes with you. Test on Monday. Sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 only. No models are being tested. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 3 test: Jan 29th January 22, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 3 test - Jan 29th. Please bring calculators to class tomorrow! Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Finish worksheet on BEDMAS with decimals. In Class Assignment will be moved to Thursday, January 24. The test will be on Monday, January 28. This is on sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 only. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Jouer/Faire oral presentations will be Jan. 30th. Most work and practice will be done in class if you use your time wisely! January 21, 2019 Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Today students worked on completing a poster assignment on the 7 elements of Art. This is due on Wednesday, day 4! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their listening and writing test for jouer/Faire today. I will have these back soon. They will go into two spseparate categories on Powerschool. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 3 Socials test coming up on Jan 29th! Get the studying started! January 17, 2019 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please note: The Listening and writing test originally planned for tomorrow has been moved to Monday, Jan 21! It is still on Jouer and Faire with sports and activities. January 15, 2019 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students did a great job on their Home Child group assignments! Way to go. Marks should be collated relatively quickly. But due to absences, it may take me a few days to assess everyone and post them to Powerschool. Those who were absent today, please be advised that the group has presented so I will be calling on you individually to present your piece. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Congratulations to Maggie: a student in our homeroom. She won an art competition with MADD! Her art will be used for promotional purposes for the organization, she won some money herself, and her homeroom class gets a pizza party! So everyone should be congratulating and thanking her! :) It was determined today that we will have the party on Friday, Feb. 1 during last period! More details will come soon. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students should be preparing for a listening and writing test for your jouer and faire verbs coming up on Friday. We will be working through a worksheet tomorrow which will help you if you are still having difficulty. January 14, 2019 Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Students worked on a poster assignment on the 7 elements of Art this will be due by the end of our next Art class! STOP MOTION VIDEOS ARE WAY PAST DUE. UPLOAD YOUR VIDEO TO OUR GOOGLE CLASSROOM ASAP! January 11, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Some students did not hand in foldables. These were due today. Please hand them in on Monday. Powerschool will indicate if it has been submitted or is missing by the end of day. Students completed a performance check on adding and subtracting decimals today. If this was not finished, this needs to be finished at home and passed in on Monday. Powerschool will also indicate if missing or submitted. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Home Child presentations on TUESDAY! Be ready! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Faire and Jouer listening and writing test on Friday, Jan. 18th! January 10, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Please make sure your foldables are finished for tomorrow! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Chapter 5 Science test is Thursday, Jan. 17. Students just completed a lab and we need to do another one to help with certain concepts for Chap. 5 quiz so I've had to push back the quiz. I'm hoping to keep the schedule for Thursday. Remember everything is on Google Classroom for them to use and review. We'll do the online multiple choice practice quiz next week to help students prepare. I have updated the students marks on PowerSchool. Have a look. Most students marks have improved well since parent-teacher meetings. Please email me if you have any questions or encourage your child to email me if they need help. Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Students began working on a poster assignment on the 7 elements of art. We will continue this next class. STOP MOTION STUDIO PROJECTS MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA GOOGLE CLASSROOM. These are now past due and were due before the break! Get these in asap. January 8, 2019 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Foldable was given in class today and an explanation was given. Underneath each flap, students have to explain how to do the conversion and give examples. These will be graded and have to be submitted on Friday. We continued working on 3.3 today (adding and subtracting decimals) January 7, 2019 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received their ch. 15 test back today. We reviewed in class. Please review and come to me with any questions Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began work on their group novel study. Presentation date is set for next Tuesday, Jan. 15th!! December 19, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Congratulations 7-3s! You won the Christmas door decorating competition! We will be having Timbits, chips, and a Christmas move last period tomorrow afternoon as our reward. Students have decided to add the following: 1. This will be a PJ party: please bring PJs with you and you can change into them during last period. 2. Students can feel free to bring in their own extra snack. Please abide by all allergy standards, however! 3. We will be chatting, listening to music, etc. for the first 20 minutes while we eat. After this, I will play a movie and students are expected to partake in the viewing. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Any students with outstanding foldables or battles booklets MUST get these in to me tomorrow! December 18, 2018 Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Students worked on completing the stop motion video project. This is due no later than this Thursday! Please upload your video to our Google Classroom! December 14, 2018 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Test on Wednesday. A reminder to students who have missed classes due to illness, band or choir: It is your responsibility to get the notes and materials you miss when absent from class and to catch up on the material you missed. This material will still be on your test on Wednesday and you are expected to know it. If you have missed notes/classes, the notes and video links can all be found on my webpage. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 15 test on Monday! It will include: 1. Fill-in-the-blanks 2. Multiple Choice 3. A Table to fill in 4. 2 out of 4 long answer (using proper paragraph structure) questions Please, also clue up your battle booklet if you are not finished. Not only is this a great study tool for this section, but I will also be collecting in these booklets on Tuesday! December 13, 2018 Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Stop motion videos will be completed in class next day! Please ensure you have all material, props etc. to do your video! You will have two class periods with the iPads for the project. This is due next Wednesday, December 19th! December 11, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received a notice last week that our school is asked to help the Parish hall with some Christmas hampers. We are asked to provide 2L bottles of pop to help the Parish Hall out. if you can give, please send in some with your children Thanks in advance Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens A reminder of your in class assignment on Friday, December 14 and your test on Wednesday, December 19. These assessments are on sections 31., 3.2, 3.7 and 3.8. Please review your notes Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed the Second Battle of Ypres and the Battle of the Somme today. Your homework is to clue up the summaries of these battles in your 'journalist proposal' booklets. We will be moving on to a new battle tomorrow. Your test is Monday, Dec. 17th. All notes are now on Google Classroom. December 10, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Tomorrow, students are asked to wear winter themed attire: such as hats, scarves etc. to class. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds The Chapter 4 Science test is now Friday, Dec. 14th. It was meant to be Thursday this week but in checking with the students, 90% did not have the required worksheets finished even though they had a long weekend and the answers are online for review! Parents must help your child be organised and follow what they have as work/review. I have proposed you get an agenda to help your child to be organised and I have outlined the Science program as efficiently as possible to help you and your child be prepared for any upcoming Science related work. Please talk to your child about ensuring that they come to class with their book, writing materials and an agenda to help them stay on top of things. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 15 test - Dec 17th! Notes are now posted on google classroom! We are cluing up with our 'newspaper articles' booklet on three major battles. This will act as your notes for study purposes. I will also be collecting this in for a separate mark after the test! Happy studying! December 5, 2018 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Finish the worksheet given in class today on converting decimals, fractions and percents. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Tomorrow is the deadline for 50/50 tickets. Please return these to me tomorrow: sold or unsold. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students saw their foldable marks. These are not on Powerschool yet and if parents have booked an appointment to see me tomorrow, I can show them to you as an example of your child's work. Ch.15 test date: Dec 17 December 3, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students attended the library today to browse through the book fair. You will be scheduled to go down to purchase from the fair on Wednesday (Dec. 5). Please bring in $ then if you intend on purchasing at the book fair. 50/50 tickets - please remember to return these on or before this Thursday - sold or unsold. Fundraiser continues for our Christmas family in need. Many have contributed even again today! Thank you 7-3s for being so generous! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 15 test is scheduled for December 17th. Though this is still two weeks off, this is a content-heavy chapter. Please be reviewing regularly so as not to be overwhelmed the night before! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students did a fantastic job at their practice rounds for their presentations on 'Les personalites' The next time we meet for CF, we will deliver them again. But this time, for a mark! Great work everyone! November 30, 2018 Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Students worked on preparing backdrops, construction cut-outs and images for Stop Motion video project. Students will be given time to do the project using the iPads next week! November 28, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are invited to continue giving to the fundraiser for our adopted family from Iris Kirby House. Tomorrow, Nov. 29, we will be hosting a hat/jersey day. Donate $1, and you get to wear your hat! Also on Thursday, if you have extra money, bring it to support the GSA rainbow bale sale at recess time! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Today was our last class to work on the 'Toward War' foldable. Please have this ready for submission for tomorrow! Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Today students worked on their storyline, made a list of props and mapped out ideas for their Stop Motion videos. Students can download the free STOP MOTION STUDIO NFB app at home if they like, to become familiar with the features French Assigned By: Nicole Collins I introduced another French speaking evaluation today. Students will be working toward 5 sentences which they will present to the class on Monday, Dec. 3. November 27, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are invited to continue giving to the fundraiser for our adopted family from Iris Kirby House. On Thursday, Nov. 29, we will be hosting a hat/jersey day. Donate $1, and you get to wear your hat! Also on Thursday, if you have extra money, bring it to support the GSA rainbow bale sale at recess time! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are busy working on their 'Toward war' foldable. This is due in on Nov. 29th. November 22, 2018 Health Assigned By: Laura Clemens We finished Cyberbully. If you were absent you can youtube the video and watch where you left off last class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be6gjjWdUw4 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Don't forget that tomorrow is PJ day. Bring in a loonie and support our adoption of a family from Iris Kirby House. We will provide them with gifts for Christmas! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins We are now working on a foldable about the causes of the first World War and the timeline of declaration of war. This will be due on Thursday, Nov. 29th. Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Finish example d-i on page 14 of the handout. Reminder that you have a quiz on 3.1 on Monday November 21, 2018 Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Today, students completed storyboards for stop motion video project. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are contributing very well to the fundraiser for the Iris Kirby Hours family we adopted! Way to go, 7-3! Friday will be a PJ day. Students can donate $1 to wear their PJs to school! November 20, 2018 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Finish your worksheet. Quiz on Monday on section 3.1. November 19, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students only have one more class to clue up their short stories. I am editing as quickly as I can. Please be patient as you wait for my edits. The final deadline is November 23. I will be evaluating all stories via google classroom) on this date Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins 50 50 ticket reminder! Please sell if you can and return the stubs and money to me. Thanks to the students who so graciously gave already today to the Mustang Motivator's fundraiser for a family. I know with your help, we can give this deserving family a great Christmas! November 16, 2018 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds The Module 1 Science test is moved to Friday, Nov. 23. I will be updating PowerSchool for the final time before the report card on Tuesday, Nov. 20. Remember the Unit test will be on all 3 chapters of the Unit. I'm available after school for Homework Haven in my classroom, most days but certainly on Thursdays. Students can come to review and ask questions at that time or email of topics they would like for me to review. November 15, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please sell the 50/50 tickets if you can. Draw date is Dec. 6th, so all tickets must be accounted for before that date. If you can not sell them, simply return them to me. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Your first book report is due tomorrow. Please be aware, you should have 2 parts to submit: 1. your template (rough draft) 2. your final copy Currently, students are working on their short stories via Google Classroom. This is a fantastic way for me to edit their work as they are writing. HOWEVER, students need to know their google usernames and passwords as well as their network username and passwords. Without this, they will not finish in the class time allotted. Due date for their Short Story is Nov. 23rd. November 13, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were sent home today with 50/50 tickets. This is a fundraiser for our school. If you could sell 5 tickets, it would be greatly appreciated! If you cannot, simply return your tickets to me and I will assure that another seller gets them. If you can sell more than 5, I have plenty more books to give to you! Just let me know! Thanks in advance for this initiative. It really is a great way to help improve technology equipment and other endeavours throughout the building! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students should have their book report well underway now. It is due this Friday! This includes: 1. A written template in which you answer specific questions I have posed. 2. A 5-paragraph essay based on those questions, but coherently written with transitional words and phrases, introductory, and conclusive sentences. November 6, 2018 Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Finish Forget Me Not Art piece and hand in by Thursday morning! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds I have updated PowerSchool with 2 more sets of marks. Check it out. The Unit 1 Test is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 20 right now. We are doing several bits of work (Science Literacy quizzes & Unit mini-assignments) in the meantime! Remember the Unit test will be on all 3 chapters of the Unit which is why students should be reviewing chapters 1 & 2 right now. We'll get to chapter 3 next week. I'm available after school for Homework Haven in my classroom, most days but certainly on Thursdays. Students can come to review and ask questions at that time or email of topics they would like for me to review. November 5, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Upcoming dates: Nov. 8 Windchimes due Nov. 13 Short Story test Nov. 16 - book reports due (2 parts: the template and the 5-paragraph essay) Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Students have a 'Foldable' of work from chapter 1 that is due tomorrow. Chapter 2 Science test was returned to the students on Friday past. Please review with your child. Again all tests are the same format - Part A is Multiple Choice which many (or all) have already been seen from the online pre-test quiz, and Part B is a variety of short answer questions, some of which are taken from their worksheets. If your child is using an agenda and reviewing regularly (5 of 7 days) they'll be fine. How much time they spend doing that review will depend on their individual abilities and strategies used. November 1, 2018 Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their last working class on the origins story for Aboriginal spirituality. Finish this off tonight for homework and submit this to me tomorrow. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Wind chimes assignment due Nov. 8th. Keep working on your independent novel study and book report. It's now officially November! Time is ticking! Due date: Nov. 16. Short Story test announced today: It will be on Nov. 13th October 31, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please remember your permission slip and $ for the swimming field trip next week! Happy Halloween! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Wind chimes representation project: Due Thursday, Nov. 8th. Please start sooner than later! This date will be here before you know it! October 30, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please fill out the permission form and return it along with money for your swimming field trip next week. Deadline to return: Thursday, Nov. 1 Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Students completed their 8 page Animation flip books.These will be graded on effort, detail, originality etc. October 29, 2018 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Finish pages 18-20 of class notes that we were working on in today's class. Due to Dept of Education field testing and the online district assessment, your in class assignment will now be written on Friday, November 2nd and your test is still scheduled for Thursday, November 8. October 26, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins ELA listening test on Tuesday, Oct. 30 Please note: October is coming to an end. You should be well underway with your novel and your book report. I met with all students today to see where you were. Please take my suggestions seriously. Your Nov 16th deadline for both your template and your 5-paragraph book report is fast-approaching! Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Today we started Animation flipbooks. Also, students should continue working on sketchbook activities. Ensure they are original, colored and detailed ! October 25, 2018 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Everything is set for the chapter 2 quiz on Monday, Oct. 29. Students have completed the online practice quiz for multiple choice. They should have all worksheets completed as well seeing as the answers are on Google Classroom. A note that I have returned to students their chapter 1 quiz. Have a look to see how your child did. I will be posting Science marks on PowerSchool on Friday, Oct. 26. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Chapter 2 test will be tomorrow! The format, which was discussed in class, will be: 1. Matching 2. Short Answer questions 3. Long answer (paragraph PEEL) questions. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Listening test on Oct. 30th! It'll be spooky... Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Make sure you log into our google classroom and finish your integer check. When it is completed, make sure your press submit so I get your completed copy to grade. Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Make sure you log into our google classroom and finish your integer check. When it is completed, make sure your press submit so I get your completed copy to grade. Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Make sure you log into our google classroom and finish your integer check. When it is completed, make sure your press submit so I get your completed copy to grade. October 24, 2018 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Unit 1 Tests were given back today. We corrected the questions at the end of the section 2.3 handout. There will be a study check tomorrow (This is not the same as a quiz). Students are reminded that my personal web page is up and running. The link can be found on the homework page. All notes, extra practice and NLESD video links and resources can be found there. Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Unit 1 Tests were given back today. We corrected the questions at the end of the section 2.3 handout. There will be a study check tomorrow (This is not the same as a quiz). Students are reminded that my personal web page is up and running. The link can be found on the homework page. All notes, extra practice and NLESD video links and resources can be found there. October 23, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students will have a short story listening quiz on Tuesday, Oct. 30. October 22, 2018 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds A reminder that all materials for chapter 2 are posted on Google Classroom - Study Guide, Power Points, Worksheets (with answers) and text. We will be doing an online practice quiz this week with the Chapter quiz on Monday, Oct. 29. October 19, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Tuesday: In-class chapter two case study! Friday: Ch. 2 test All notes and the study guide are now on Google classroom Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Today students got to work with the digital cameras and test out different features. Students also created a 2 page flipbook for our animation unit. This will count for a mark! See me if you were absent. October 18, 2018 Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Finish p. 54-55 #'s 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Picture re-takes are Thursday, Oct. 25 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Chapter two case study: Tuesday, Oct. 23 Chapter two test: Friday, Oct. 26 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students should be reviewing their mots scolaires. We also began 'les matieres' today. Please review. We will continue with this over the next few classes. Please note: You will have a speaking evaluation some time next week. The date will be announced later (depending on your work speed and practice time). This can be quite a scary thing for students to have to speak in a second language. We will work through ALL aspects of what you have to say, you will formulate what you WANT to say, you will have PRACTICE time, and you will have a PARTNER beside you. October 17, 2018 Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Photography timelines are due! Please pass these in as they will be graded. October 16, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students received notice to day of two up-coming evaluations: 1. Ch. 2 Case Study - Oct.23. Student will come to class, read an article and answer questions on it. Notes and texts are permitted and encouraged. This is not a test. But it will be evaluated. 2. Ch. 2 test - Oct.26. This is a test and study should be commencing shortly for it. It will be designed to take the full period and will consist of terms and longer questions. Notes will go up on Google Classroom very soon. Please note, worksheets, class discussions, and readings in the text are all sources you should be using to study, not just my Powerpoints. Happy studying! October 15, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students must come tomorrow ready to write their final copy of their practice character sketch. This will be submitted at the end of class for a mark. Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens A reminder to students that the Unit 1 Test is on Wednesday, October 17th. The Inclass assignment will be given back tomorrow :) October 12, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please be reviewing your 'mots scolaires' vocab. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students found themselves in a bit of trouble today for unruly behaviour. Please consider my words over the weekend, and come in on Monday ready to start fresh, and with academic intentions. October 11, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students should now have all gmail, and network problems solved! Please make sure you are logged on to my Google Classrooms. If you are not, I sent you an invitation, please read your gmail tonight and accept my invitation. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are working on a practice character sketch. You will be given approximately 15 minutes to finish this up next class. If this means you need to work on it a bit at home tonight, you should be doing so! October 10, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished our lesson of 'mots scolaires' (school words). We then played an energetic game to solidify these terms. Please keep reviewing them. We will be playing more games, and doing more activities with this vocab. Take note: Core French tests were returned and marks are on PowerSchool. Any questions, please come see me. Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens In class assignment on Friday Oct 12 Finish p. 41-42 #'s 1,4,5 and 7 Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Today we worked on sketchbook activities and created a timeline for the history of photography! We will complete this next day! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up and corrected a worksheet on the pre-industrial, Aboriginal economy. No set homework, but consistent review is needed. This is a hefty chapter of information. You should stay on top of your terms and concepts well before I announce a test. Take note: Socials case studies were returned and marks are on PowerSchool. Any questions, please come see me. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students analysed character development in a short story. Please review all notes because we are almost ready to clue this section up and move on to the next important piece of short story analysis. Also, reminder: your Book report is due on November 16. All students must bring their chosen novel to our reading period on Wednesday, Oct.17 so I can assure you have all started in on the report. October 9, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to new vocabulary on 'Mots scolaires' Please go over this tonight. We will be doing work with this vocab tomorrow. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were working independently on an 'Aboriginals' worksheet. Please finish this off tonight if not done in class. I will be doing a homework check tomorrow. October 5, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Have a great long weekend! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students need to have their novels for their independent book report chosen (preferably began reading) by next day 2. That's Wednesday, Oct. 17. If you do not have one chosen by this date nor do you have it with you to read during our reading period, one will be chosen for you. October 4, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins If the Terry Fox Walk occurs tomorrow, don't forget your donation! Please bring in non-perishables if you can, for the Parish Hall food bank. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds The chapter 1 Science quiz will be on Thursday, Oct. 11. Again, everything is online in Google Classroom for review. The students will be doing an online pretest of multiple choice questions. Note from my message on Curriculum night that I use many of these questions in the actual test! So they can even review at home once the pretest is done in school. Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens Finish the study check/worksheet given in class today. It will be collected tomorrow. October 3, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded that we are collecting food donation for the Parish hall. Please bring in, if you can. Also, weather permitting, Friday will be our Terry Fox Walk. Please bring in a donation for Friday. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students have their test tomorrow on: Part A: writing (jours de la semaine, je fais) Part B: Reading (salles d'ecole) Part C: listening (temps, jours, je fais, salles) October 2, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded to prepare for your Core French test on Oct. 4. I went over the format today: Part A: writing (jours de la semaine, je fais) Part B: Reading (salles d'ecole) Part C: listening (temps, jours, je fais, salles) Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens We completed 1.6 today. Review your notes. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please bring in non-perishable food items for our food drive! Photo orders are due in by tomorrow. Some students have been asking about re-takes: I'm not sure when re-takes are just yet, but I will let you know as soon as I know. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds A note to parents to advise that I will be out for the rest of the week. There is a chapter 1 quiz scheduled for this Friday. I am working with the substitute to try to ensure the test goes head as scheduled. This may or may not happen but I will advise before Friday. The main thing to know now is that I have put the power point, the chapter 1 text and the answers to the worksheets online on Google Classroom. For some reason I can't find the chapter study guide but the students have a paper copy of that. Have your child navigate to Google Classroom through their gmail account. The class code is - d0p6ag3 September 28, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins If you wish to order pictures, please hand in your order form before Oct. 3 Please note: We are collecting food for our Thanksgiving food drive. Please bring in non-perishable food items to help support the Parish Hall food bank. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students will have a writing and listening test on Thursday, Oct. 4th on the following topics we have been studying this far: 1. Salles 2. jours de la semaine 3. Je fais 4. Temps Art Assigned By: Rebecca Howse Today we did optical illusion Art! Please have 2-3 sketchbook activities done for next class. September 27, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote an in-class assignment today on disempowerment. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Review what we have completed in Science so far - ecosystems, abiotic & biotic factors! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Grammar test tomorrow! Happy studying! I think everyone enjoyed their (Kahoot) review class today! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Test on Thursday, Oct. 4th: 1. Salles 2. jours de la semaine 3. Je fais 4. Temps September 26, 2018 Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Review what we have completed in Science so far - ecosystems, abiotic & biotic factors! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Grammar test this Friday. We are continuing with revision in class, but you should be reviewing at home as well. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins French test on Thursday, October 4th. I will be testing the following objectives: 1. Les salles 2. Les jours de la semaine 3. Je fais... 4. Le temps Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins We are collecting food for our Thanksgiving food drive. Please bring in non-perishable food items to help support the Parish Hall food bank. September 25, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on their grammar booklets as revision for their upcoming test on Friday. Please organize and begin home study if you have not already done so. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We started the first Science Module - Interactions withing Ecosystems. Review - What is an ecosystem? What are abiotic and biotic factors? Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished off their 'Empowerment' booklets. There will be no more class time for this. Please finish off these tonight for homework. I will be collecting this in tomorrow. On Thursday, you will be writing a case study on disempowerment. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had a revision class today on 'salles', 'je m'appelle/ il ou elle s'appelle', 'jours de la semaine' and 'je fais' September 21, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Your grammar test is Friday, September 28th. Start organizing yourself now! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We started the first Science Module - Interactions withing Ecosystems. Review - What is an ecosystem? What are abiotic and biotic factors? Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please work for half an hour on your empowerment booklets! You will only get 20 more minutes of class time before it will be due. September 19, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had a mock test on 'salles' terms and continued work on days of the week and je fais. This will end soon, so there will be a quiz soon. Please keep up-to-date! Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds Safety quiz on Thursday, Sept. 20. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned about conjunctions and prepositions today. We also did examples in worksheets and corrected. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins We clued up our discussion on empowerment today. Next class please bring colouring things and your textbooks. You will be working on your project. September 18, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students should still be reviewing the second column of 'salles' vocab. We are working on days of the wee and 'je fais' in class now. This will clue up soon. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Scholastic book orders due tomorrow! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were notified today that almost all lessons in grammar have been taught, so review in preparation for a test must begin. I will announce the test date next class. September 17, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins We continued with our look at 'jours de la semaine' by analysing the 'faire' verb and how to say you are 'doing' certain activities. This will continue. Students should be familiarizing themselves with the vocab on 'salles de classe' (the second column) Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Scholastic book orders are due by Wednesday! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins There are still a few students who do have not passed in their maps of Canada. Please do so by tomorrow. Otherwise home contact will be made. September 14, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Good work on your French 'salles' vocab 'test' today! :) Please learn the other side of the page for another 'test' next week. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins I collected in all Canada maps. If you were given an extension due to missed class time, you are expected to have it in to me on Monday. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Scholastic book order went home today. The deadline for orders is Wednesday Sept. 19. Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens We corrected the remainder of 1.1-1.2 worksheet. Worked on a second worksheet (1.1). This does not have to be finished for homework, but students are reminded of the quiz on Monday on sections 1.1-1.2 so it would be excellent practice. September 13, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder: This was last night's work: Please make sure you have the 'adjectives' examples (1-10) completed on your worksheet. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Have you been reviewing the first side of your French vocab? You have French tomorrow! Start reviewing! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students have now had two classes to work on their map of Canada. This is now set for homework. Please follow ALL instructions and write legibly. I will be collecting these in tomorrow. September 12, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please get all important information forms back to me as soon as possible. Note: all parents should have received an email from me yesterday. If you have not, please contact me so I can add you to my mailing list. Mathematics Assigned By: Laura Clemens We worked on the worksheet for 1.1-1.2 in class today. We will finish and correct in class tomorrow. Quiz on 1.1-1.2 Friday. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins We discussed pronouns and adjectives. Please find the links to the songs below (remember my issue with the 'Adjectives' song?!?!) If you do not have #s 1-10 on your adjective worksheet complete, this is for homework. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koZFca8AkT0&index=2&list=PLLGL68XV1Chopaue3rR6VG1YjR69ua5cH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y5SlAZIkTI Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder: tomorrow afternoon during period 4, we will have Socials instead of ELA September 11, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on a map of Canada. You will have tomorrow's class to clue this up. If not done in class time tomorrow, it will be set for homework. Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please be advised that tomorrow you have two periods of ELA. On Thursday, your ELA class will be Socials! September 10, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please be aware that another document was sent home today: 'Early School Closures' must be filled out an returned to me tomorrow. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are to spend 10 minutes tonight reviewing the first side of their 'Salles d'ecole' vocab. Yes, that means memory recall! Language Arts Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students can access the nouns song via the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk4N5kkifGQ Enjoy! September 7, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins All students are asked to return the following forms to me by Monday morning: 1. Media consent form (don't forget to check the appropriate box) 2. Demographics sheet (any changes noted) 3. Technology agreement 4. Medical plans 5. Field trip permission June 8, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Due to unforeseen circumstances, the ch. 6 test has been pushed to next Tuesday, June 12. Please prepare for this! June 5, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Your last test of the year is this Friday! Ch. 6. All notes and a copy of the booklet are found on my website. May 31, 2018 Technology Ed. Assigned By: Tammy O~Brien Final Tech projects are due June 11. This is a major project worth 60% of the year. Many students have a lot of work to complete on this. I will be staying after school in the Tech room tomorrow Friday June 1st, next week on Monday June 4th and Thursday June 7th so students can get these finished. Homework haven is available on Tuesday June 5th as well as an option. May 30, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch All activities related to the novel study are due in by Tuesday June 5th. Study guides have been given out to students today. May 25, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 6 Socials test has been set for Friday, June 8. This will be your last test of the year. However, not your last EVALUATION of the year, so attendance is important! May 18, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students: Please be aware that I have reserved the tech lab for one last clue-up class for French (depliant) and Socials (booklet and brochure). Next Wednesday. All three projects have a firm and final deadline for this day. Anything not submitted to me that day will appear in Powerschool as a 0 until it is submitted to me. May 16, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Janet Critch Students are reminded to bring in ASAP permission forms regarding studying at home during exams. Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel Study - students are to keep working on their novel booklet - due in by next Wednesday the latest May 10, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Among the Hidden. Grammar activities are due in on Friday. Students continue working on novel study booklet (esp. Elements of the novel, Placing events in order, and even some students have started in on the conflict page). Also students should keep taking notes on looking out their window for the descriptive essay. Will be working with this next week. May 9, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel Study: students should complete the first 2 pages (Elements of the novel and the activity). If you don't have a copy home with you, go to Google classroom (xdr4x4) to obtain one. Grammar activities completed for Friday. May 7, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Among the Hidden. - All chapter questions due in Tuesday May 8th. Grammar Activity sheet - due in by Friday May 11th. May 3, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students have been introduced to their brochure final project for this unit. Research is under way for the Canadian provinces and territories. Please be advised that a digital copy of the brochure - as well as a physical printed off copy - must be submitted to me by May 16. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are working on their 'Life in BNA' workbooks.Keep up-to-date. I will be collecting these in early next week. April 25, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students wrote their ch. 5 test today. They should be marked and returned by early next week. April 18, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Please note: For those who would like to improve their mark on the last reading quiz, You can re-take the quiz this Friday (April 20) at lunchtime. If you received a mark you are satisfied with, you do not need to come. This is not for an extra mark, this is a replacement mark! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 5 test: Wednesday, April 25! All note shave been handed out and we are discussing them in class now. Notes will be added to my website on Friday. April 16, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 5 test will be on Wednesday, April 25th. Students are equipped with their study guide, and (as of today) all notes. We have not reviewed all information but will continue to do so up until the end of the week. Notes will be placed on my website by the end of the week. April 11, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded that they have a reading quiz on the 'modes de transport' this Friday, April 13. This should not take more than 15 minutes, so come prepared with your books. If you have lost your notes, a PDF can be found on my website. March 28, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned about modes of transportation in French. We will continue this after Easter as well, but please note: there will be a 'modes of transportation' reading quiz (associating the word with a picture) on Friday. April 13. The list I handed out in class today can now be found in PDF form on my website. March 26, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins All students should submit their graphing project to me tomorrow if you have not already done so. Please honour your due dates! March 19, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Turning Points narrative - due in Tuesday March 20th. Speeches have to be ready to go by Thursday March 23rd. March 16, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students have no officially finished all studies on chapter 4. Notes can be found on my website if you have an incomplete set of notes due to absenteeism. Ch. 4 test: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 March 15, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students have received all notes for chapter 4. If you were absent for a bit, it is up to YOU to make sure you have a full class set of notes (see the folders in class, or go online to my website: the PPT will be placed there by tomorrow afternoon). Ch. 4 test - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 Music Assigned By: Alanna Fitzpatrick You need to be practicing your rules for the lines and spaces of the TREBLE and BASS CLEF staff! You need to MEMORIZE these rules! Your in-class assignment is coming up on MONDAY, MARCH 19. If you have any questions, please see Ms. Fitzpatrick before Friday. Copy and paste this link to practice with the games we used in class: http://www.emusictheory.com/practice.html https://www.musictechteacher.com/index.htm Here is the link to ALL ABOUT THAT BASS CLEF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY-hJ9WZ6lk Here is the link to I KNEW YOU WERE TREBLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2TLtRu6Hqk March 14, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Janet Critch Students are asked to bring in the sold and unsold 50/50 tickets ASAP Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Book Report #2 is due in by Friday March 16th. This book report was assigned at the beginning of January. You can find the outline on Google classroom. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins ch. 4 test, Wednesday, March 21. Get organized! March 13, 2018 Music Assigned By: Alanna Fitzpatrick You need to be practicing your rules for the lines and spaces of the TREBLE and BASS CLEF staff! You need to MEMORIZE these rules! Your in-class assignment is coming up on MONDAY, MARCH 19. If you have any questions, please see Ms. Fitzpatrick before Friday. Copy and paste this link to practice with the games we used in class: http://www.emusictheory.com/practice.html https://www.musictechteacher.com/index.htm Here is the link to ALL ABOUT THAT BASS CLEF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY-hJ9WZ6lk Here is the link to I KNEW YOU WERE TREBLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2TLtRu6Hqk March 12, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded of the ch. 4 test coming up on March 21. Also, please bring geometry sets and colouring utensils to class for our graphing work. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students got their reading quiz (question words) back today. Some marks were great! Some: not-so-great! If you would like a chance to improve your mark, you have one opportunity: this Wednesday after school, you can come see me and I will give you a second chance. If you can not make it, you need to speak to me BEFORE then. Afterwards, it's too late and your original mark stays. March 9, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 4 test will be March 21. Happy studying! March 7, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students, be advised, I will be collecting in the Habitat for Humanity journal next class. Those who are not finished this will receive a 0 in powerschool until the work comes in to me. Parents will be notified. Please get this in! Music Assigned By: Alanna Fitzpatrick Marks for your Alphabet Story Assignments have been entered into PowerSchool. You need to be practicing your rules for the lines and spaces of the TREBLE and BASS CLEF staff! You need to MEMORIZE these rules! Your in-class assignment is coming up, and will be discussed in class on Thursday. Copy and paste this link to practice with the games we used in class: http://www.emusictheory.com/practice.html https://www.musictechteacher.com/index.htm Here is the link to ALL ABOUT THAT BASS CLEF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY-hJ9WZ6lk Here is the link to I KNEW YOU WERE TREBLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2TLtRu6Hqk March 6, 2018 Music Assigned By: Alanna Fitzpatrick Marks for your Alphabet Story Assignments have been entered into PowerSchool. You need to be practicing your rules for the lines and spaces of the TREBLE and BASS CLEF staff! You need to MEMORIZE these rules! Your in-class assignment is coming up, and will be discussed in class on Thursday. Copy and paste this link to practice with the games we used in class: http://www.emusictheory.com/practice.html https://www.musictechteacher.com/index.htm Here is the link to ALL ABOUT THAT BASS CLEF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY-hJ9WZ6lk Here is the link to I KNEW YOU WERE TREBLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2TLtRu6Hqk March 5, 2018 Music Assigned By: Alanna Fitzpatrick Marks for your Alphabet Story Assignments have been entered into PowerSchool. You need to be practicing your rules for the lines and spaces of the TREBLE and BASS CLEF staff! You need to MEMORIZE these rules! Your in-class assignment is coming up, and will be discussed in class on Thursday. Copy and paste this link to practice with the games we used in class: http://www.emusictheory.com/practice.html https://www.musictechteacher.com/index.htm Here is the link to ALL ABOUT THAT BASS CLEF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY-hJ9WZ6lk Here is the link to I KNEW YOU WERE TREBLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2TLtRu6Hqk March 1, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Poetry term test - Friday March 2nd. Unseen poem test - Tuesday March 6th. February 15, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder: Ch. 3 test: Wednesday, Feb. 21 February 14, 2018 Music Assigned By: Alanna Fitzpatrick If you did not finish your alphabet story today in class, please make sure to have this fully completed and ready to pass in at the BEGINNING of TOMORROW'S class. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 3 test - Feb. 21. I will, as usual, be hosting a review class on the 20th if you wish to attend. February 13, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Poetry: Over the next few days we will finishing off some poems/activities we have been working on. Here is a list of thing we will complete by Thursday: 1. Richard Cory - questions #1,4 and 5 2. Poetry Term Foldable - if not already passed in -then due ASAP. 3. Macavity poster - if not already passed in then due in ASAP. 4. The _____ Lament - drawing and poem - due in by Thursday. 5. Pop quiz either Wednesday or Thursday. There will be another pop quiz either Wednesday or Thursday. (Need to study figurative language (4 types), sound devices (5 types), Types of poems (7 types) and other poetry terms in poetry note booklet. February 8, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Poetry Foldable is due in tomorrow. Wanted Poster (for Macavity Poem) due in tomorrow. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students have been working on a monthly family budget. You have one more class booked in the tech lab for this activity. If you do not get it completed in class time, you are always welcome to stay with me to complete work. Otherwise it must be done at home. Due date: Feb. 15th February 7, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Janet Critch Students are asked to bring in their forms and money for Winter Fun Day. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students looked at mortgages and started a household budget today. This is due next week. It's on google classroom. The class code is 9rjj86 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Poetry Foldable is due in on Friday, along with their Wanted Posters. Poetry Pop quiz either Thursday or Friday February 6, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Poetry foldable - due in Friday Feb. 9th. MaCavity Wanted poster due in on Friday. Pop quiz some time this week. February 5, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Poetry Foldable due in by Friday. Students are to come to class tomorrow prepared to work on their wanted poster. Students should be reviewing their poetry terms - never know when there will be another pop quiz. February 1, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Poetry Foldable due in next Friday Feb. 9th. Details are in Google classroom. January 30, 2018 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Janet Critch Students are asked to wear blue or white tomorrow for Bell, Let's Talk. Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Punctuation: students are to complete worksheets on Capitalization and End marks(punctuation) for class tomorrow. In addition, for those students who failed to completed the 4 Kinds of Sentence worksheets (assigned last day 1 and due in today), these must also be passed in tomorrow. January 29, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their last class to work on their google slide show about the celebrity they chose. You must use Jouer, Faire, Aimer, and personality traits discussed in class to complete this activity. There is an example on our google classroom page. I will correct these on Thursday. Don't forget, your listening test on Jouer, Aimer and Faire is this Thursday! Art Assigned By: Donna Walsh ALL ART ASSIGNMENTS DUE THURSDAY FEB 1 January 25, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Poetry: Students are to do question #1 and 5 (a and b), as well as completing the end rhyme for the poem 'On a Night of Snow'. Students should be reviewing their figurative language terms and their sound device terms. Art Assigned By: Donna Walsh SKETCHBOOKS AND FLIPBOOKS DUE FEB 1 any outstanding work must also submitted French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Listening test on aimer/jouer/faire: next Thursday: Feb 1! January 24, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Poetry: On a Night of Snow. Students are to do question #2. The Poetry workbook can be found on goggle classroom. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins All foldables are now overdue. If they do not come in by the end of the week, I will have no choice but to place a 0 in Powerschool. Contact home has been made. Please do your work! Today, students started a google classroom activity in which they must create a Google slideshow on a celebrity of their choosing. They must incorporate the traits de personalite, jouer, faire, aimer, and la negation. If you were absent, please join my google classroom asap and get started! The class code is ir3epp January 23, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Poetry - students have to answer questions 1,2,3 on the poem 'I'm Nobody' In addition students should study what is figurative language and what are the 4 types? French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students have a listening quix next Monday. Jan 29. Please review your aimer, faire, and jouer verbs! jouer a, faire de, and jouer de foldables are now due. Please pass these in tomorrow if you have not already done so! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Those who did not complete the capitalism and socialism worksheet should have in ready for tomorrow. I will be reviewing these. January 19, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Short story test marks on Power School. January 18, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Unseen short story test - Friday Jan.19th. Short story term test grade is now in Power School. January 17, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Short story term test - Thursday Jan. 18th. Unseen short story test - Friday Jan. 19th. Art Assigned By: Donna Walsh Reminder: Ensure all sketchbook activities and Flipbooks are handed in by the end of term (Feb 2) January 16, 2018 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder: I will be collecting in your 'jouer a' and 'faire de' foldables tomorrow. Please have these ready to pass in. Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Short Story term test - Thursday Jan.18th. Unseen short story test - Friday Jan. 19th. January 15, 2018 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded about the ch. 2 quiz taking place tomorrow. We spent today's class reviewing for this. The substitute also spent Friday's class reviewing with you. Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Language Short story term test - Thursday Jan. 18th. Unseen short story test - Friday Jan. 19th. January 12, 2018 Art Assigned By: Donna Walsh Only a handful of classes left before the term ends on Feb 2 Get all your work in ASAP 3 new sketchbook activities Flip Book **** Take work home if you need to January 11, 2018 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Short Story term test - Thursday Jan.18th. Unseen short story test - Friday Jan. 19th. January 8, 2018 Art Assigned By: Donna Walsh Welcome Back! We have 3 assignments left for this course! We started flipbooks today but continuing with our sketchbooks throughout. Please take them home if you need extra time. All work due at end of term which is early Feb including work that you forgot to pass in! We may also have a journal entry to do too! Heads up :) Please remember to continue to look for class news on my website as I don't use this one as often. Link below https://sites.google.com/a/nlesd.ca/mme-walsh-s-homework-site/home December 22, 2017 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Joyeux Noel! Passez des vacances merveilleuses! December 18, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were shown a documentary on Aboriginal life and how the treaties (loss of land) have affected their societies and continue to do so. We also learned about residential schools. It was an eye-opening day for many students! Your case study is WEDNESDAY. Get organized! December 14, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded about your in-class open-book test next Wednesday! Get yourselves organized! December 12, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished off the study of the Aboriginal pre-industrial economy, and began a study of the European immigrants' economy. We will continue this next day. NOTE: you have an in-class open-book assessment of ch. 2 on Dec. 20th French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Studens learned how to put two sentences about aimer (+verbe) and traite de personalites together! Great work! December 11, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students got their ch. 15 tests back today. Please review all comments I made and keep these in mind for future reference. You were also made aware that you will have an open-book in-class assignment next Wednesday: Dec. 20th. It will encompass the major concepts of economies, production, distribution, and the Aborignal and European economies of the 1800s. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students did their listening quiz. if you missed it, you will be asked to complete it tomorrow. We also began our study of the verb 'aimer' which will help our vocabulary immensely for our futur work in this unit. December 6, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel Study - due in on Thursday Dec. 7th. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to ch. 2 (Unit 2). Study guide and notes were distributed. Please note: Your battle booklet (which should already be completed) is due on Monday Dec. 11. Please indicate which battle you would like me to evaluate. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished of the practice listening quiz in preparation for Monday's quiz. We then played a game on :Ou est Charlie' to review our 'places in the school' December 5, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Short story: A Wish called Arnold. (Page 46). 1. Define conflict. What kind of conflict is in this story? Describe it. (Hint: Did the main character have some kind of problem to solve? What was the problem?) 2. How did the conflict in the story get resolved? (Solved) Novel Study due in by Thursday Dec. 7th. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins You will have a listening test on Monday Dec 11. We did a practice listening test today to better prepare for it. It will be comprised of your traites de personalites. December 4, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Catch me Once Catch me Twice. All novel activities are due in by Thursday Dec. 7th. November 30, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished Vimy and the corresponding worksheet. We are now officially done the chapter! Test Monday! After school tutorial tomorrow! November 28, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Today was our last look at the Battle of the Somme and your last chance to fill out your journalist propositions for this battle. We will move on to Vimy next class. You are now responsible for finishing off Ypres and Somme on your own time. Ch. 15 test: Monday, Dec. 4th. You should be well into your studies now. November 27, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Catch me Once Catch me Twice. Grammar activities - due before Thursday Nov. 30th. Novel study activities - by Dec. 6th. Book Report - due by Thursday Nov. 30th. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students examined the Battle of the Somme. We will fill out our 'journalist' form tomorrow and move on to the Battle of Vimy Ridge. If you have not yet started preparing for your test, please start tonight. Ch. 15 test: Dec 4. All notes are on my website now. However, you are responsible for your foldable, your Flander's Field project, your study guide, and your battles booklet. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on their 'personalites' interviews again. We will practice and present these next class. Students also got their marks back from their last presentation. Marks significantly increased! Way to go everyone! November 23, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on their first of three important battles: The Second Battle of Ypres. Tomorrow, we examine the Battle of the Somme. Don't forget, these 'journalist' sheets are your notes for this section. Please keep good notes! I handed back the Flander's Fields project today. Parents, and students, please review my comments. I want you to become critical thinkers! Reminder: your test for this unit is Dec. 4th. Start your studies now! Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Catch me Once, Catch me Twice. Continue to work on novel study. There is a copy on Google classroom if you need another one. Novel test: Friday Nov. 24th. Book report is due by Nov. 30th. November 22, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Ch. 15 test date has been set: DECEMBER 4! Start planning your studying now! There is a lot of info to know. You should be using your foldable, your notes, the text, worksheets, videos to understand the impact of WW1 on Canadians and Newfoundlanders. We are on our final section: a comprehensive study of three allied battles. This booklet will also be a resource for study materials. All powerpoint notes have been added to my personal website. November 21, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Catch me Once Catch me Twice. The novel study was passed out today (a copy can also be found on Google classroom. The due date is before Dec. 6th. Novel Test: Friday Nov. 24th. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished watching the documentary on trench life and the horrors of the battlefield. This doc will supplement your notes for this section and could be a valuable resource to reference in your test if need be! (hint, hint, nudge, nudge!) French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on presenting their classmates based on their personalities (notes given in class). Presentations will be tomorrow. November 20, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Catch Me Once, Catch me Twice. Today we finished reading the novel. Students have until Wednesday to pass in their chapter questions. Novel Test: Friday Nov. 24th. Art Assigned By: Donna Walsh All SKETCHBOOKS and/or MISSING WORK is to be handed in no later than NOVEMBER 22 November 16, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Flanders Field Project is due tomorrow! Please get this in to me! Art Assigned By: Donna Walsh ALL SKETCHBOOKS TO BE SUBMITTED BY NOVEMBER 22 - WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER THIS DATE AS MARKS ARE DUE. Please continue to use my website for details on homework, assignments, and work done in class. https://sites.google.com/a/nlesd.ca/mme-walsh-s-homework-site/home November 15, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Flanders Field projects are due on Friday! Get them done! Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Catch me Once Catch me Twice. Today we read chapter 13 (questions #32 and 33) and chapter 14 (question #35). Chapter 7-12 question due in by Thursday Nov. 9th. Reminder: Book Report due date by the end of Nov. November 14, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins The Remembrance day poem questions and art project is now set for homework. This must be in to me no later than Friday. Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Catch me Once, Catch me Twice. Today we read part of chapter 13 (up to page 162.) Chapter 7 - 12 questions due in by Thursday Nov. 16th. Reminder: book reports are due in by Nov. 30th. November 9, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder to students who wish to re-submit their foldable project, it must be done for Tuesday. No late submissions will be accepted. Your original mark will stay. Also, please note that you will not gain any new marks for visuals (2 possible points), you are only looking to improve your marks now on the questions (28 possible points). November 8, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students got their foldable marks back. Those who wish to improve their marks have an opportunity. However, you MUST follow these guidelines. No exceptions: 1. It must be passed in to me by Tuesday, Nov. 14. No extensions granted under any condition, otherwise the original mark stays. 2. The incorrect questions must be answered on the original question sheet, and attached by paper clip or staple to their foldable, or it will not be marked. Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Listening test grade is now in power school. November 7, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Catch me Once, Catch me Twice. Today we read chapter 10 and 11 (students have to finish reading this chapter for class on Wednesday). Chapter 10 - no questions. Chapter 11 - #29. Listening Test - Wednesday Nov. 8th November 6, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Today students worked on journals. They were allowed to take their journals home if they were not finished and pass them in on Tuesday. Listening test is Wednesday Nov. 8th. There is nothing students can study - they will listen to a story and answer a few question on the story. November 2, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Catch me Once, Catch me Twice. Today we read chapter 8 (no questions) and chapter 9 (questions #23 and 24). Chapter 1-6 questions are do in today but students may pass them in tomorrow during library period. Listening test - Wednesday Nov. 8th. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their speaking evaluation today. Some students did very well! Way to go! I also distributed the Mosaique texts. Please remember these texts are issued to you. If you lose them, you are responsible to replace them. Place your name on the inside cover and note the number associated with your name. November 1, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Catch me Once, Catch me Twice. Today we read chapter 7 and assigned questions 19 and 20. Chapter 1-6 questions are due in tomorrow. Listening Test - next Wednesday Nov.8th. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began their analysis of the 'Who enrolled' text in the book (p. 279) using the THIEVES technique. We will continue this next day. October 26, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Today we worked on our journal. Students who didn't finish in class were allowed to take it home and finish for homework. October 25, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Journals - tomorrow is journal writing. Please ensure you have a journal to write in. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins This was your last class to work on your 'causes of war' foldable. I will be collecting these in tomorrow. No excuses! October 24, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Catch me Once, Catch me Twice: today we read chapters 3 and 4. Assigned the following questions 7, 8 and 11. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked on telling time and their class schedule. We will continue with this next day. October 23, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Novel: Catch me Once Catch me Twice: today we read chapter 2 and assigned questions #5 and 6. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their first full class of the foldable on the causes of WW1. We will have one more class on this, after that it will be for homework! The foldable is due on Thursday the 26 of October! October 20, 2017 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their listening quiz. These will be graded and on poweschool by Monday. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began consultations with regards to their case study marks. I will be calling each student up to my desk to show him/her where they went wrong, where they went right, and suggestions for future improvement. If I did not consult with you today, you had the option to at least see your mark. If you did not come up, the mark is on powerschool now. Also, I will be keeping these case studies as examples of work up until parent-teacher interviews. After this time, I will pass them back to students. Students were also introduced to their first of 4 evaluations for this unit: a foldable. You will have two classes next week to complete this protect. If you are not done, it will then be set for homework. Therefore, the due date for this project is Thursday, Oct. 26. No exceptions! October 18, 2017 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded of their listening test on Friday. You have had lots of advanced warning, we have discussed and modeled what it will be like. Happy studying! October 16, 2017 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder: Listening test on Friday! October 13, 2017 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Tammy O~Brien Students need to bring a photograph for Tech class Monday. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded that next Friday (Oct. 20) you will have a listening quiz! Please start reviewing your material now! Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Grammar retest marks are now in power school. If you do not see your child's grade there then it just means they were not finished and will do so on Monday. October 12, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Grammar test (on parts of speech) is set for Friday Oct. 13th. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were told that their first listening evaluation will be on Oct. 20th. Prepare and start revising now. It will include: numeros, jours de la semaine, les matieres, les mois, les endroits de l'ecole. October 11, 2017 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished off work on 'Les matieres' (school subjects). We will look at places in the school building next day. Please be prepared and start revision. Your listening evaluation will be Friday, Oct. 20th! It will comprise of numeros, jours de la semaine, les matieres, les mois, les endroits de l'ecole. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students organized their binders and were introduced to Unit 6: WW1. There wil be 4 pieces of evaluation for this unit, all worth 4% each: 1. a Foldable 2. artwork/questions 3. information table 4. final test Today, all students received the study guide for preparation purposes, but also to keep on track of this chapter and the timeline we will use. Please keep this document. October 10, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Grammar - today we started to review parts of speech for the test on Friday Oct. 13th Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their final class to work on their future self portraits. What is not finished in class today is set for homework tonight. I will be collecting all these in tomorrow. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students continued their study of 'Les matieres'. We will continue this next day. October 6, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Reminder: everyone still has one more working class of your future self portrait. This is not assigned for homework over the Thanksgiving weekend. It will be due in Wednesday, Oct. 11 October 5, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Short story: students will continue working on their wind chimes. Due next Wednesday Oct. 11th. Grammar retest will take place next Friday Oct. 13th. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had another day to work on their future self-portraits. The due date has been revised. These WILL NOT be set for homework over the long weekend. You now have one more class to complete them (next Tuesday). After this time, they will be set for homework and due Wednesday Oct. 11. Please note this change! October 4, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Food Bank: students are asked to bring in non-perishable food items for the St. Kevin's Parish Food Bank. Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Wind Chime is due in next Wednesday Oct. 11th. Google classroom code for Language Arts 7-3 is xdr4x4. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students started their 'future self portrait' booklet. They will have one other class to work on this. After that, this will be set for homework. Reminder for those who still have not passed in their case studies: they are due tomorrow. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began a presentation on 'Les Matieres' (school subjects). We will continue this next day. Please note, much like our practice listening evaluation we did yesterday, you will be having a real listening evaluation in the next two weeks. I will let you know when, exactly, as soon as it is planned. October 3, 2017 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Janet Critch Food Bank - students are asked to bring a non-perishable food items for the St. Kevin's Parish Food Bank Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Short Story: The Jade Peony. Students need to start thinking of how to create their own wind chime. Due next Wednesday Oct.11th. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students did a practice listening quiz today (this does not count for a mark on powerschool). There will be a real listening quiz soon (in the next two weeks). You will have at least a week's notice. It will be similar to the one we did today on 'jours de la semaine' but will cover a different topic. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students are reminded of the Thursday deadline for your case studies: 'The Home Children' October 2, 2017 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Janet Critch Fill - the - tractor. Students are asked to bring in an non-perishable food items for the St. Kevin's Parish Food Bank. Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Grammar Test were given back today and grades are posted in Power School. Many students had a difficult time with grammar concepts -over the next 2-3 weeks these concepts will be reviewed and a retest will be rescheduled. If you have any question please contact me vie email or call the school. Thanks you. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students had their last class to work on the case study (Home Children). Students had the option of staying back with me this afternoon - which some did - or finishing it off tonight by Thursday, Oct. 5. I will collect all worksheets in on Thursday. Please do your homework! September 29, 2017 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked very well on their school terms and their word find! We will continue this next class. This is not for homework. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students worked extremely well on their case studies. We will finish these up on Monday. For anyone absent, please refer to pages 16-19 of your text book. You will receive the assignment in class on Monday. September 28, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were introduced to their unit 1 case study. We did not finish it, though. Please come prepared tomorrow, to write, think, and work hard! This will be taken in and evaluated. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students played a number bingo game with M. Alberto, we then began our study of common school words. No homework. We will continue this next class. September 27, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Unit one notes are now online at www.madamecollins.yolasite.com September 26, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished off all the notes for unit 1 today! This means that on Thursday, I will introduce your case study. It will be an article to read based on your knowledge of empowerment. You will have to answer questions on the article. This is not a test, so all materials are welcome: your notes, your text etc. Please feel free to consult your materials in order to answer these questions. Please be prepared to read and write on Thursday. Art Assigned By: Donna Walsh Please visit my site for class info, homework, and announcements https://sites.google.com/a/nlesd.ca/mme-walsh-s-homework-site/ Click link next to my name on Homework site September 25, 2017 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up work on their months activity. Also M. Alberto lead them through a revision of the weather. It was quite fun! There were even prizes! Next class we will discuss school words and numbers! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students discussed more with regards to the charter of Rights and Freedoms and we explored the 'grey areas' on a case-by-case scenario. We also briefly mentioned the 5 types of empowerment which we will examine tomorrow. After this, you will have an in-class case study, then this unit will be complete! September 22, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Short stories - students should be working on their conflict essay due in Tuesday Sept. 26th. Grammar - parts of speech test - Wednesday Sept. 27th. September 21, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Yesterday, students reviewed the concepts found in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.We then did an activity in which students had to determine if certain situations infringed on people rights and freedoms, or not. Everyone had a good time, I think! It also leads to 'grey areas' in interpretation. Great discussion! Today, we distributed texts and discussed the charter a bit more. Next class we will move on to the different types of empowerment. September 20, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Grammar test next Wednesday Sept. 27th. September 19, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students learned about authority as it pertains to empowerment. We then introduced the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We will look in to this in more detail tomorrow. We will also do an activity which demonstrates your rights and freedoms. Your maps are almost all in! I will be correcting them as soon as they are all collected. This will appear on powerschool within the next few days. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed the weather phrases. We then did a listening activity on weather scenarios. Great listening everyone! We will finish it up tomorrow. This will be collected in for your first listening mark in French. September 18, 2017 Language Arts Assigned By: Janet Critch Grammar test - Wednesday Sept. 28th. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Thank you to those students who sought me out to give me your mapping projects! To those who did not, don't worry. It is not your fault! I thought we had Socials today. I will see you tomorrow. Please have your maps for then. September 14, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Empowerment was the topic today. You guys really grasped it! Good job! Please be aware that there were quite a few students without their maps completed. Tomorrow is your firm deadline unless I have told you other wise. If it is not in to me, contact home will be made. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students reviewed 'weather' expressions in French. We then practiced saying these expressions in class by socializing with all classmates and identifying the type of weather they drew. Homework tonight: TEACH (not tell, or say) your weather expression to someone in your household. Teaching means modelling how to say it, asking the student to repeat it, giving advise on improvement, and rewarding positive behaviour! You must do ALL of these things! Please remember your scissors, glue, and colouring leads tomorrow! September 13, 2017 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished their multiple intelligences sheet for me. I will use these to help you find study skills that work with how your brain works! September 12, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students finished up work on a map of Canada. What is not done now is set for homework. This will be evaluated for a mark. If Chou would rather finish it off with me, I will be in my class room from 2:12-3:30 tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday). Please come by and I can help you. I will be collecting now in all maps on Thursday. September 11, 2017 French Assigned By: Nicole Collins We went over the outline for the year, discussed expectations, and danced to a 'robot dans mon chateau'. A great BIG BIENVENUE to M. Alberto: our French monitor from Quebec! He will be with us all year helping with the French language! Please note: my website is up and running. Please visit it! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins We went over the outline, discussed expectations, how to organize binders etc. We started our mapping assignment of Canada. We will continue this next class. Please remember to bring leads/crayons with you to next class to colour all provinces/territories/bodies of water. Please note: my website is up and running. Please visit it! September 8, 2017 Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were told how to organize their binders for Social Studies. Please have all material mentioned in class ready to go for Monday! French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students were told how to organize their binders for French. Please have all material mentioned in class ready to go for Monday! We began a multiple intelligences self-assessment. We will continue this next class. After this is completed, you will be given information from me on the best study/organizational practices for your intelligence strength. Once you have this information, it is expected, and very important, that you keep practicing these skills every day. It was a pleasure to meet you all. We are going to have a great year! January 8, 2010 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Test Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins test Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins test Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins test Religion Assigned By: Nicole Collins test January 7, 2010 Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Welcome back! Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Welcome back! Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Welcome Back! Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins test Art Assigned By: Kathleen Vaughan Sketchbooks need to be in NO LATER than Monday, January 13th. Make sure you have 8 (total) sketches from you sketchbook list completed and labeled. Science Assigned By: Charlie Simmonds We have completed review of chapter 5. The Chapter 5 quiz is scheduled for Wednesday, January 29. There are two labs and plenty of worksheets to be completed in the meantime. This is traditionally one of the most difficult quizzes of the year so students must start now to review. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began a new unit called 'Mosaique' we discussed what mosaic means and how Canada is a cultural mosaic. We will begin the study of personality traits next class. French Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began a new unit called 'Mosaique' we discussed what mosaic means and how Canada is a cultural mosaic. We will begin the study of personality traits next class. Homeroom Announcements Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began a new unit called 'Mosaique' we discussed what mosaic means and how Canada is a cultural mosaic. We will begin the study of personality traits next class. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Welcome back! Art Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began a new unit called 'Mosaique' we discussed what mosaic means and how Canada is a cultural mosaic. We will begin the study of personality traits next class. Social Studies Assigned By: Nicole Collins Students began a new unit called 'Mosaique' we discussed what mosaic means and how Canada is a cultural mosaic. We will begin the study of personality traits next class. back