November 30th

8-8 We read an article about genetically modified salmon and anwered questions.
Marcy came in to review high school selection with students.


Selah, Josh, Lucas and Ady, you must meet with Marcy when you are back at school.

All English classes: Reading Response Day

8-8 Please rememeber your permission forms, money and non-perishable food items.

For a prize, what is the name of my dog?

November 29th

8-8 We did our verb test on the present and too many of you failed. Come on 8-8, you need to learn these verbs.
We read some information from the Geography text book about urban and rural communities.

English- we added to our list of parts of speech, (contraction and conjunction)
and started our list of Literary Devices with similes and metaphors.
We began brainstorming about our myths we are going to write.

Who is checking my blog? Come to me and tell me the password and your birth date to receive a prize.
The password is FOOD DRIVE

Good luck!

keep those cans coming!

November 26th

8-5 We reviewed the use of commas and took notes on some of the parts of speech.

8-8 pool, only 13 kids were swimming. Please remember to bring your swim stuff on Days 3 and 6

8-7 English- we reviewed our sentences without commas and took notes on some of the parts of speech.

8-8 English-we reviewed the parts of speech and how to use a comma correctly.

8-8 French- We worked on our posters.
Please study for your verb test on the "présent" Monday

November 25th

8-6 English-we reviewed how to use commas and explored prefixes, suffixes and root words.

8-7 same as 8-6

8-8 Grammaire- We reviewed the present of ER, IR and RE verbs in addition to vouloir and pouvoir.
We also read and worked on our posters.
There is a verb quiz on Monday.

8-5 same as 8-6

8-8 same as 8-6

Good work everyone!

November 24th

8-7 English- we reviewed the parts of speech and identified them in sentences.

8-8 French-students worked on their posters against child labour.

8-5 English- we reviewed parts of speech and characteristics of a myth. We read a couple of myths as examples.

8-8 English-we reviewed parts of speech and identified them in sentences. We reviewed the characteristics of a myth.
We read a myth about how the bear lost ITS tail.

8-6 English- we reviewed the parts of speech and identified them in sentences.

8-8 PLEASE BRING IN SOME NON-PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS IF YOU CAN. Remember to ask your parents before you take anything from your house :)

November 23rd

8-8 We took up the questions on "D'où viennent vos vêtements?" and I returned the verb quizzes to be signed.


8-7 English we read a myth about how the loon got its markings and reviewed verbs, adverbs, nouns and adjectives.

8-5 English we reviewed the characteristics of a myth and identified various parts of speech in sentences.

8-6 same as 8-5

November 22nd

8-8 We read "D'où viennent vos vêtements?" and students answered some questions.
We also worked on our inferencing assignment from our reading about the census.

8-7 We had a very lively discussion about English grammar. Really, it was lively.

8-6 We reviewed the use of your/you're, its/it's, whose/who's, well and good. We read a myth and discussed ITS characteristics

8-5 -same as 8-6

8-8 we did our verb quiz and reviewed the homophones from English.

November 18th

8-6-English- we took up p. 100-101 and discussed the difference between "its and it's" and "you're and your". We also discussed the difference between well and good.

8-8 Silent Reading in support of the Vow of Silence.

8-5 students worked on their comparison paragraphs.

8-8 Art- we drew and coloured our Picasso faces.

Remember to study for your quiz on Monday! Everybody needs to know those 4 verbs perfectly.

Any English students that have not handed in their Fan Fiction Comic to Ms. K, please do so as soon as possible! It is now more than 2 weeks late and will be part of the January report card.

Have a great long weekend.

P.S My hand is fine, I got 5 stitches :(

November 17th

8-6 We took up the work on sentence fragments and apostrophes.

8-8 "Pyramid of Hate" presentation and discussion

8-7 "Pyramid of Hate" presentation and discussion.

8-8 English/French catch up period.

8-5 English-we took up the work on sentence fragments and apostrophes.

November 15th

8-8 French

We read quietly and then did a quiz on the present tense of: aller, avoir, être and faire. We will have a make up quiz on MONDAY.

We then continued to work in our "Monde en Marche" booklets.

All English classes read their reading response books and wrote their responses.

November 12th

Day 7

8-8 We read our French books quietly.
A reminder of our French verb quiz on Monday
(présent of avoir, être, faire, aller)

8-5 we started writing our comparison paragraphs. These will be collected WEDNESDAY during English.

8-7 We started our discussion about comparisons and brainstormed some topics.

8-8 English same as 8-5

8-8 Social Studies- we continued our reading about Hungary and did some work on the questions.

8-6 same as 8-5

All English classes: please make sure your reading book is in classs for Monday. We are starting our Reading Response that day. It will be every day 8 unless otherwise stated.
Have a great weekend.

November 11th

Remembrance Day

8-5 We took up question 8 and started reading about comparisons. Students started their own work in point form.

8-8 POOL

Assembly

8-7 We also shared some answers to question 8, about our goals for life. We started to read about comparisons.

8-8 English-took up question 8 and discussed comparisons.

Social Studies-finished our work on the Census and started reading about Hungary and completing our maps.

Please remember that interview bookings start tomorrow by phone, online or by sending the paper in.

November 10th

8-6 English. We continued work on the questions for "The Way of a Winner" and took them up.

8-7 continued working on the questions. We will take them up tomorrow. Please write about a goal for homework.

8-8 French. We read more about the census and reviewed the present tense of "être", "avoir", "faire", "aller"

8-8 English same as 8-6

8-5 same as 8-6

8-8, you have POOL tomorrow. Please bring all of your swimming stuff to school.