Wednesday 30 December 2015

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Here are a few reminders for back to school next week!

7H & 7F  Social Studies
   Chapter 2/3 projects are due on January 11th 2016. No more time in class will be given but I am available to supervise filming after school during that first week back.

9F Social Studies
    Chapter 3 projects due on January 6th 2015.


Have a great rest of your break!
 

Wednesday 16 December 2015

December 16th 2015 Day 2

Important Dates:
- Me to We is having a bake sale tomorrow at 12:11 Everything for 1$
- Friday December 18th 2015 = ACTIVITY DAY!! 


Social Studies 7H
       Students continued to work on their projects. Tomorrow we will take a break and have a Christmas treat! Project are due on January 11th 2016.

Études Sociales 7F 
     Students had 2 classes to work on their projects many made great progress on the videos. Keep it up! Project is due on January 11th 2016.

FSL 7
  Today in our first block we practiced our verbs on the website Conjuguemos.com. During the second block we wrote the ER and IR verb test.

FLA 7F
    Today as a treat we watched the Winter movie of Narnia in French!

Études Sociales 9F
    Today was the last study period for the test that will take place tomorrow morning.

Tuesday 15 December 2015

December 15th 2015 Day 6

Important Dates:
   - Me to We Bake Sale tomorrow at 12:11  1$ items!!  
   - Activity Day - Friday December 18th 2015 

Études Sociales 9F
   Today students were given two periods to work on their project that is Due on January 6th 2015, or to study for their chapter 3 test that is to take place on Thursday December 17th 2015 

FLA 7F
  Today we continued working on our  Monde en March reading comprehension. Students are learning how to read texts with different topics and different vocabulary.  Yesterday we started our first Monde en March ( What in the World) talking about the Attacks that happened in Paris on November 13th 2015.

Film 8
Today we started our next unit of Live Action and Si-Fi movies. The movie we started today was Back to the Future (PG). We will continue with this film when we get back in January.

Social Studies 7H 
   Students continued to work on their video/skit projects. The projects are really coming together I am looking forward to seeing them in the New Year.

Thursday 10 December 2015

December 10th 2015 Day 4

Études Sociales 7F 
    Students were given both Social periods to work on their projects. Most have finished their texts and are working on the script before they start filming the projects. Keep up the great work 7F Projects are due on January 11 2016.

FSL 7
    Today I introduced er and ir verbs. We took notes did some practice on paper and then we worked on a verb game online to build up our abilities. Students recorded their best marks in PowerSchool as a formative assessment. We will be having a verb test on Wednesday December 16th 2015. The test will be on the ER and IR verbs. Students are encouraged to use the website for extra practice as well and to come see me if they need more help.

FLA 7F
   Today we went over some more reading comprehension strategies. We worked on going through a text and find the right information when answering questions. Students were asked to highlight the answer to each question in the text and put the number beside it. We practiced this together and then students were given 2 more texts to work on. These are due on Monday ( we do not have french tomorrow) and I will be taking at least one of them in as a sommative assessment. Students were asked to use a highlighter and highlight each answer like we did in practice.

Social Studies 7H
    Students continued working on their projects. All texts are due on tomorrow for the initial feedback & formative assessment. Projects are due on January 11th 2016. 

Wednesday 9 December 2015

December 9th 2015 Day 3

Important Dates to Remember: 
December 10th 2015 - Activity Day permission forms are Due. ***No late forms will be accepted****
December 18th 2015 - Activity Day

Études Sociales 9F
      Today we discussed a few case studies where the Charter of Rights and Freedoms were violated. We got a bit off topic but had a good discussion about how violent videos games & violent news reports or movies have started to influence everyone in a negative way.
     Students were asked to study for our upcoming test on Chapter 3 during our second block or to work on their Chapter 3 projects. Test is on Thursday December 17th 2015 and Project is due on the 6th of January 2016. 

Social Studies 7H
     During today double period students worked on their skit projects. It is awesome to see all students engaged and working  hard on this project! Keep it up 7H!!

FSL 8
    Today we practice our ER verb conjugations by playing some online verb games. Students marks were inputted to PowerSchool  as a formative assessment. There will be a Not so PoP POP QUIZ on the ER verbs on Monday December 14 2015.

FLA 7F
   Today was our reading period in the library.

Tuesday 8 December 2015

December 8th 2015 Day 2

Important Dates to Remember: 
December 10th 2015 - Activity Day permission forms are Due. ***No late forms will be accepted****
December 18th 2015 - Activity Day

Social Studies 7H
     Today we continued working on their chapter 2/3 projects.

Études Sociales 7F
    Today I explained  their Chapter 2/3 projects and divided them up into groups of 4. Students had 3 periods to work on the projects today. They will be due on January 11th 2015.

FLA 7F
    Today we had an awesome french cultural activity. We learnt how to play the spoons and sing a few french cultural songs. We then went outside and had some "Tire sur la Neige"! it was a great class!

FSL 7
    Today we had an awesome french cultural activity. We learnt how to play the spoons and sing a few french cultural songs. We then went outside and had some "Tire sur la Neige"! it was a great class!

Études Sociales 9F
     Today we started our chapter 3 project Students were given today to work on it. This project is due on January 6th 2015.   Students were also reminded of their chapter 3 test that will take place on Thursday December 17th 2015. 
 

Monday 7 December 2015

December 7th 2015 Day 1

Important Dates to Remember: 
December 8th 2015 - French Immersion & FSL Cabane à Sucre French cultural activity
December 10th 2015 - Activity Day permission forms are Due. ***No late forms will be accepted****
December 18th 2015 - Activity Day

Études Sociales 9F
      Today we looked at case studies. We learnt why our government suspended certain group's rights and freedoms, because of what was going on in the world. ie: Forcing Japanese citizens into camps after the bombings of Pearl Harbor. Students were then asked to complete the next 2 case studies that relate more to Canadian citizens and not world events. We will be reviewing these tomorrow. Chapter 3 test is set for Thursday, December 17th 2015 

FLA 7F
     Today we finished off the ``litteratie en action`` activity that we started a few classes ago.  Students created graphic organizers in partners to help summarize the texts that they read.  Once finished students were asked to start work on the vocabulary worksheet that accompanied the previous worksheets.

Film 8
    Today we finished our animation unit. We started working on our Flip book animation projects. These projects are due at the beginning of class on the 15th of December 2015.

Social Studies 7H 
     Today we started our unit 2 (chapter 2/3) project.  Students were asked to get into groups of 2, I then assigned 2 groups of 2 to work together. Each group of 4 was asked to .....
Project is Due on January 11th 2016 - There will be no time in class given that first week in January. It will be the week designated to finalizing the videos at home.

Thursday 3 December 2015

December 3rd 2015 Day 5

Important Dates to Remember: 
December 8th 2015 - French Immersion & FSL Cabane à Sucre French cultural activity
December 10th 2015 - Activity Day permission forms are Due. ***No late forms will be accepted****
December 18th 2015 - Activity Day

Health 7E
     Today we continued the presentation from last week about relationships. Students learnt about friendship and resiliency today. They completed some fun activities. Ask them about it!

Social Studies 7H
    Today was their last period to study before the chapter 3 test tomorrow. Students are encouraged to email me with any questions they might have this evening while studying.

Études Sociales 7F
     Today was their last period to study before the chapter 3 test tomorrow. Students are encouraged to email me with any questions they might have this evening while studying.


Wednesday 2 December 2015

December 2nd 2015 Day 4

Important Dates to Remember: 
December 8th 2015 - French Immersion & FSL Cabane à Sucre French cultural activity
December 10th 2015 - Activity Day permission forms are Due. ***No late forms will be accepted****
December 18th 2015 - Activity Day

FLA 7F
    Today students worked with the reading comprehension strategies that we have been learning together, in order to understand 4 different texts in our text book.  Students started off individually reading and completing the 3 of the strategies solo (visualizing, verifying comprehension by asking questions, and interpreting photos) They were then asked to work in partners with someone that read the same texts as them on the graphic organizer together. This activity will be completed during our next block of FLA on Friday Dec 4th 2015.

Études Sociales 7F
    Today was another study period for our test on Friday. I was able to go through all the sticky notes with the students and then had them write out new ones with things they still need some clarification on. I will go over these with the students during our class tomorrow. Happy Studying!

FSL 7
   Students presented their Weather report projects. Well done to all students you guys did a really good job! Next class students are asked to bring paper, we will be starting our grammar unit. Yay verbes!!

Social Studies 7H
       Today was another study period for our test on Friday. I was able to go through all the sticky notes with the students. Tomorrow will be our last study class. Students are encouraged to come and see me or email me if they have any extra questions through out the course of the next two days before their test.
 

Tuesday 1 December 2015

December 1st 2015 Day 3

Important Dates to Remember: 
December 8th 2015 - French Immersion & FSL Cabane à Sucre French cultural activity
December 10th 2015 - Activity Day permission forms are Due. ***No late forms will be accepted****
December 11th 2015 - French Immersion Concert in school gym in the Afternoon
December 18th 2015 - Activity Day

Études Sociales 9F 
    Today we worked on a activity that looked at how the government violated certain right from our charter in certain situations. We looked at how the First Nations were discriminated against based on old treaties, how certain nationality like the Italians, Germans and Ukrainians were treated unjustly because of what was going on during the World Wars.  Students were given two periods to work on this activity, if they did not finish it, they were asked to complete it for homework.

Not so POP POP quiz on Friday!

Social Sutdies 7H
     Today in our double period we studied for our test on Friday. First Period we studied in small groups, and during our second block we played a review game with the whole class.  Tomorrow I will be going through the sticky note activity one on one with each student.

FSL 8
   Today was the students last class to perfect their fashion projects. The red carpet event will be on Friday!

FLA 7F 
  Today was the students reading period in the library.

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