Friday, June 10, 2011

Weekly Update June 10

Congratulations to the Gr. 2-4 Violin Players! The will be seen on CBC News tonight at 6:00 following the sports broadcast.


ELA—Two Reader Responses for June are due June 17. Students are completing either Old Yeller or Firegirl on Monday and will be handing in their Literature Circle Positions and Chapter Questions. They will switch novels on Monday and do a Literature Circle and Chapter Questions on the opposite novel from what they completed. A permission slip was sent home this week for our last unit which is cross curricular dealing with Sex Education. Please have it handed in for Friday, June 17.

Math--Grade 7s started Ch. 12 on Median, Mode and Means. Grade 8s are completing Chapter 12 on Tessellations and will complete a final project/test next week.

Social Studies—The students have been looking at ecosystems and how population density is influenced by the climate.

Science—We concluded classwork on the structures project. The report is due June 15th and the poster and prototype is due June 17th. Other classes will be invited to view the projects during our science class that day. A project on Canadian contributions to science will be due on June 22nd. We will begin that on Monday.

French--We continued to work on our French yearbook to review our year's work.

Dates to Remember:
June 13--Tennis Workshop
June 14--Shops p.m.
June 15—Hot Dog Lunch, No Homework Club
June 17—Reader Responses Due for June
June 20—Lunch Lady Lunch
June 22--Shops p.m.
June 24--Admin. Day, No School
June 27—Kindergarten Graduation @ 9:00, Sports Day, p.m.
June 29—Grade 8 Graduation @ 1:00
June 30—Awards Ceremony @ 1:00, Report Cards Sent Home, Last Day