Congratulations to the Band for their performance on Wednesday at Evening of the Arts. They did very well despite the cold.
ELA—Two Reader Responses for June are due June 17. We have been working on our Poetry Unit and the students are currently writing their Poetry Anthology which was given an extension and is due, Monday May 30. The students will present a few of their poems and will have a gallery for all to see their works. In June we will focus on Literature Circles for two short novels with final projects for each. A permission slip will be coming home in the next couple of weeks for our last unit which is cross curricular dealing with Sex Education.
Math--Grade 7s have completed Ch. 10 on Patterns and Expressions and should have brought their test home for signing over the weekend. They start Ch. 11 on Linear Expressions and Equations on Monday. Grade 8s wrote their tests on Friday for Ch. 10, Solving Linear Equations. They will start Chapter 11 on Probability on Monday.
Social Studies—The students are continuing to present their games, essays and trivia that they creating from their research on societies within Europe and the Americas.
Science—We have completed experiments on strengthening spaghetti bridges and have now begun the final project.
French--We continued to work on our French yearbook to review our year's work.
Dates to Remember:
May 31--Snow White Play at Nordale, 1:00 p.m.
June 6--Shops p.m.
June 13--Tennis Workshop
June 14--Shops p.m.
June 22--Shops p.m.
June 24--Admin. Day, No School
