Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. McCrea on the birth of their baby boy. I have no other details yet but will email with the exact information when I have it!!! We thank God for his long awaited arrival and hope all are well!!!
The Team Building Retreat went very well this week and the students all seemed to enjoy it. They especially enjoyed lunch! A big thank you goes out to Mrs. Woo and Mrs. Katyrynuik for preparing, serving, and cleaning up our taco lunch. Another huge thank you goes out to Mrs. Young for doing a fabulous job facilitating the retreat.
The students also enjoying a presentation put on by Crew Ministries on Thursday afternoon this week. They all participated and had fun with the songs and skits.
Show and Save Books were due on Friday. If you have not returned your sample book and/or your order, please do so on Monday so that we can complete this fundraising project as soon as possible.
ELA & Religion--The students have been working on persuasive paragraph writing. We reviewed Literacy Circles and will be starting a class novel, Tuck Everlasting. We visited Mrs. Butterfield's Kindergarten class and read our Children's Bible Stories to them. They all enjoyed having the "big kids" read to them. In Religion we have talked extensively about intellectual and emotional thinking/believing in terms of religion.
Math--The Grade 7s are finishing their chapter on Circles and will have a test on Tuesday. The Grade 8s completed Ch.7 on Volume and wrote a test on Friday. They will be starting Ch. 8 on Integers.
Social Studies--The students worked on an assignment comparing primary and secondary sources of information.
Science--We are working on contour maps, then tides and floods.
French--We worked on various spring and easter vocabulary activities.
Important Dates:
April 14--Shops
April 22--Shops
April 23--No School, Professional Development Day
April 24--Spring Tea
April 30--Shops
