I am trying to get this out before my power goes out. Oh boy, it is windy!
Calendar Notes:
Tuesday, January 20th Suicide Awareness presentation
Wednesday, January 21st, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.: EMCS OPEN HOUSE. There will be department displays and a variety of teachers, students and staff there to answer all your questions about what EMCS has to offer.
Friday, January 23rd A hypnotist is coming to our school to entertain ...and turn us all into a bunch of chickens.
January 30th is the deadline for Ski Notices and cheques
Interim's will be going home soon. Stay tuned.
Academic Notes:
English: English: We will continue exploring informational texts. To improve how you compose sentences, we will continue to look at different sentence types. There will be a quiz on Wednesday; questions that you should be able to answer include: What are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions? What is a declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentence? What defines a simple, a compound and a complex sentence? How can you identify a sentence fragment or a run on sentence in your writing? What are the three ways that you can fix a run on sentence?
HCE: We will look at mental health and teens. There will be a suicide awareness presentation on Tuesday.
S.S.: We will explore the feudal system and its impact on society in the middle ages.
French: We will continue to work with human body vocabulary and the verb avoir. The verb, etre, will be reviewed.
Math - students wrote their practice unit exam on Friday. MANY students did not finish and did not come in for extra help to complete it. I will give a bit more time to complete the exam on Monday and review some more. We will go over the exam on Wednesday and the "real" exam will be on Thursday.
Science - Unique organism assignment is due on Monday. We will spend Monday and Tuesday going over the characteristics of living things and students will have a quiz on Friday on these characteristics.
Don't blow away, kids. See you tomorrow.
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