This week, May 30th to June 3rd

Calendar Notes:

EMCS Visit/ Class Demonstration: Tuesday, May 31st
EMCS Fun Day: Morning, June 2nd
CAMPING June 14th to 15th at French Beach Group Site (If you have an incomplete mark, it is school as usual for you so that you can get caught up.)
PLAYLAND June 21st
GRADE 8 Fun DAY June 27th
GRADE 8 Leaving CEREMONY and AWARDS June 28th
REPORT CARD Pick Up June 29th

Reminders:

Moderate Risk Forms and $7 is due for camp. Parents can come to the school for a 1:1 meeting, if they missed the parent meeting last week.

Playland Permission forms and a cheque of $80 ($51.50 for those who fundraised with chocolate sales) payable to SD #62 are also due.

Academic Notes:

English: I will be collecting The Outsiders' Projects on Tuesday and you will self evaluate. I will either support or dispute your self evaluation. If you don't have the project done, your mark is I for incomplete. So get it done.

Social Studies: You will be choosing and researching for the "Meanwhile in..." 500 to 1500 AE project. You will be assessing the most connected Fief members for a Middle Ages Dating Game.

French: Avoir Quiz on Tuesday afternoon. So, study how to conjugate avoir, form the negative and ask questions using avoir. Studying is done in your time.

Homework

For your weekend...

May 31st, The Outsiders Project is due for ENGLISH

May 31st, Avoir Quiz for FRENCH

June 10th, Meanwhile in... Inquiry Project is due for SOCIAL STUDIES (start thinking about it)

Camping

Well, I hope not!

Thank you to those parents who could make it to tonight's meeting. For those of you who could not make the meeting, you must either come in person to the school or call to speak with either Ms. Szadkowski or Ms Wiens about the moderate risk forms.

I will be collecting forms from parents who attended the meeting and brought them home to spouses to get signed. If you have any questions, just fire me an email at gbridal@sd62.bc.ca and I will get back to you as soon as possible with an answer.

No your mom is not going camping with you...you have to set it up yourselves ;-)

This week, May 24th to 27th

Calendar Notes:

Camp Meeting in the Library at 7:30 on Thursday, May 26th.

May 31st - EMCS Tour

Academic Notes:

Social Studies: We will negotiate boundary disputes between the fiefs.

English: Monologues continued.

French: Forming questions and answering in the negative using avoir. Do you have a ____? No, I don't have a ____.

Have a Great Long Weekend

Reminder: There is a camp meeting for parents on May 26th at 7:30 in the Library. Camping is considered a moderate risk activity and for that reason, waivers need to be signed. The 7 dollars for food will be collected at this time.

This week, May 16th to 20th

Calendar Notes:

Monday, May 23rd is Victoria Day, no school

Thursday, May 26th at 7:30 in the JMS library - Camp Moderate Risk Briefing and Meeting

Academic Notes:

English: We will be concluding our study of "The Outsiders" with a film on Tuesday. We will be working on technical writing, namely cover letters. Monologues and scripts are the next genre focus.

Social Studies: We will assess who is the most strategic match in the land. Also, we will look at pivotal historical figures from our period. What does it take to stand out in history?

French: We will review avoir and how to form a question using the verb.

May 11th

This sloth's for you, J.S.

Academic Notes:

HCE - Canadian Labour Laws governing child labour.

English Div 5 and 6 - Both divisions were given time to work on their Outsiders booklets and projects. You were very much on task. The booklet is due this Monday, May 16th, and the project is due on Tuesday, May 31st.

Social Studies Div 2 and 5 - You were given time to work on the plague awareness campaign. This is due a week today.

Tuesday, May 10th

Academic Notes/ Homework:

English: The Outsiders Chapters 10 to finish due Monday, May 16th. Final projects due Tuesday, May 31st. Class time will be provided but if you fall behind take the book home to catch up. Remember audio book links can be found on my course links.

Social Studies: The Plague infomercial or awareness campaign due Tuesday, May 17th. Two class blocks will be provided.

Not that plague!

May 9th to 13th

To all the women in your life who mother you...

Calendar Notes:

Get your camp notices in. There are extra forms at school.

Friday is break the rules day for charity.

Academic Notes:

HCE: We will be writing out our resumes using words that we brainstormed in English to describe our personality and our skills (adjectives and verbs).

English: Cover letters and formal letter formatting will be a topic this week. We will continue to work on the Outsiders, don't be surprised if you get a pop quiz on plot to check if you are indeed following the pace that is being set. You should have read to Chapter 9.

Social Studies: You will be creating an advertising campaign to warn against the black plague. There are a couple of people in the Game of Fief who are showing symptoms, so we must alert the public. You will arrange talks with other fiefs to set alliances through marriage. Some of you are determined that the cost of war is worth it and have other, secret plans.

French: The verb avoir continued.

May 3rd

Academic Notes:

English: You were given a block to read and complete activities for chapters 7 to 9. If you are behind, you should catch up at home.

Shopping: You walked to Village to shop for a cookie recipe or for a family meal. We will debrief tomorrow regarding the math of shopping. Getting that right means meeting a budget, getting that wrong means debt and hardship.

Social Studies: You went on a crusade of stations on that subject, The Crusades. You might get a quiz on the main ideas otherwise known as a pop quiz.

French: We reviewed the verb avoir and looked at how to form the negative with avoir. You have a quiz on this topic on Thursday and you have a one page assignment due the same day. For the assignment, you were asked to illustrate an avoir phrase in the positive and negative on a piece of 8.5 x 11 paper.

As always, if you were away, you are expected to make up for notes, lessons and assignments that were given in your absence. You are also expected to hand in work that is past due. 

This week May 2nd to May 5th

Calendar Notes:

Friday, May 6th No School Pro D

Academic Notes:

English: We will continue our novel study and work on reading Chapters 7 to 9 by the end of the week. The booklet should also be completed to Chapter 9. See HCE for the technical language writing unit we will be starting this week.

HCE: We will be looking at verbs that describe skills that you have to construct an impressive student resume for a summer job. By the end of this unit, you will have a cover letter and a resume that you can use to apply for jobs in the future.

Social Studies: Ms Lecat is going to be teaching you about the Crusades and the plague this week. We are so lucky to have this talented student teacher starting out with us.

French: You can say "I have". We will learn how to say "I don't have" or "Je n'ai pas..." This comes in very handy when you are travelling in Francophone countries.