Monday and Tuesday

ELA 7 and 8: Working on writing assessments
ELA 9: Grammar worksheets, "Modern Family", and work class for Adolescence assignment
PAA 7: Sewing machine worksheet due next single class
Media 20: Finished "Super Size Me" and began documentary paper
Science 7: Hot Chocolate lab
CE: Marie Rivier skits and Abi's birthday party

Friday

ELA 7: Ranking writing assessment samples and editing
ELA 8: Ranking writing assessment samples and editing
ELA 9: Read Zits comic strip on page 58 in Crossroads and using RAFTS, create a piece of work on the topic of adolescence. Watched an episode of Modern Family (Lifetime Supply) and discussed the different roles and types of love in a family.
Science 7: Hot Chocolate lab in the Home Ec lab

Thursday

ELA 7: We began our writing assessment with the prompt: you are a billionaire who has one million dollars to donate to a deserving person or organization.
ELA 8: We began our five paragraph autobiography for the upcoming writing assessment.
CE: Listened to "The Little Star of Montpezat" and coloured in our colouring books.
Science 7: Typed the first half of the hot chocolate lap report.

Tuesday and Wednesday

ELA 9: Finished watching "A Lion Called Christian" and read two poems on family
ELA 7: Write Traits handout and RAFTS worksheet
ELA 8: Write Traits worksheet
PAA 7: Cut out apron pieces and practiced paper sewing.
CE 7: Read "The Little Star of Montpezat" about Marie Rivier
Media 20: Began watching the documentary "Super Size Me" with a focus on form and the controversial issues

Monday, January 23

ELA 8:New unit on Survival. We will also start focusing on the six writing traits for the upcoming writing assessment.
PAA 7:Sewing machine introduction
Science 7: Midterm
ELA 9: New unit on Love and Loyalty. We watched a Lion Called Christian and discussed love.
Media 20:Analyzed main stream music videos and discussed who is represented and how.

Sophia Nicole

My three day old niece on Friday.

Semester Two!!

Here we come Semester Two! The 7C's are beginning sewing first so please bring your fabric. We start sewing Tuesday. Grade 7, 8, and 9 ELA will begin with a focus on writing and grammar. After reading the midterms, I found some areas we need to work on. I am excited to begin Media Studies. We are starting where Mrs. Trumier left off.

Wednesday, January 11

ELA 9: Midterm review: Go over each story we have read and write a short summary with a list of main characters.
ELA 8: Midterm review. We will correct the poetry review tomorrow
PAA 12: 12 steps to financial organization notes
ELA 7: Midterm review

Midterms

ELA 7: Monday January 16 9:00
ELA 8: Monday January 16 12:35
ELA 9: Tuesday January 17 9:00
Science 7: Tuesday January 17 9:00

Tuesday, December 13

ELA 8: Corrected chapter 29-32 questions and handed back the ten chapter titles assignment. We read chapter 33 to 41.
ELA 7: Decorated the classroom for Christmas.
SCI 7: Worked on Particle Theory poster or story.
PAA 12: Worked on personal budget and finished watching "Princess".

Start of December

ELA 7: We finished up our mini unit on "The Summer of the Swans" and have began our new unit on Mysteries and Uncanny Incidents. We will be reading lots of mysteries and working on identifying fact verses opinion. Later in the unit we will write a newspaper article about a mystery then revamping that article so it could be featured in National Enquirer.
CE 7: We are in the process of preparing for Christmas through Advent celebration. All the girls have finished the ornaments to hang on our Jesse Tree. Make sure your daughter can explain why she made her ornament and can make a connection to Jesus when describing her bible verse.
SCI 7: We have started a new unit on Heat. After getting deeper into the swing of things, I look forward to more experiments in our second unit.
ELA 8: We are half way through our novel "Holes". This week we will create titles for the chapters and continue listening to the cd and taking turns reading.
ELA 9: We are powering through our unit on Norse and Indigenous Narratives. Tomorrow we will create an introductory paragraph for our character sketches together then work on our own. The character sketches will be due later in the week. Once we finish vision quest narratives we will watch "Brother Bear". The evaluation for this unit will be a re-telling of a Christmas myth. The unit will be finished around Christmas. If Violet continues to keep the class on track, we will watch Thor as a treat at the end as well.
PAA 12: We will start a new unit on Personal Finance tomorrow.

Tuesday, November 22

CE 7: Created ornaments for our Jesse Tree.
ELA 8: We started typing poetry dossiers. We will have tomorrow to type as well and will set a due date together.
ELA 7: "Summer of the Swans" project work period. The girls will have the whole week to work on their projects and we will present informally next week.
PAA 12: Pie lab

Monday, November 21

ELA 9: Read three Pourquoi tales and wrote a paragraph describing the characteristics of Pourquoi tales.
ELA 8: Worked on poetry dossier. We will start typing in the computer lab tomorrow.
PAA 12: Missed mass. Remember we are making the filling for our pies tomorrow and we need every minute to work. Come down to the lab asap.
ELA 7: Started final projects for "The Summer of the Swans". The girls will have the rest of the week to work on their projects.

Thursday, November 17

ELA 8: Worked on poetry dossier. The girls must have five poems completed for Monday or they will be finishing at lunch time.
ELA 7: Read chapter 17-20.
SCI 7: Finish lab reports on Hot and Cold and read page 175-177 #1-4.
PAA 12: Began "It's a Celebration..." assignments.

Tuesday, November 15

CE 7: Finished Abraham and Sarah choral reading. We began working on a prayer mandala that we will finish up next day.
ELA 8: Peer editing using the TAG conference sheet.
ELA 9: Read "That Wasscawy Wabbit" and answered questions. We will read "The Loki Wolf" tomorrow.
ELA 7: Finish up our missing posters for Charlie from the "Summer of the Swans".
SCI 7: Mixtures and Solutions quiz.
PAA 12: Intro to new section on desserts.

Wednesday, November 9

ELA 9: Worked on Nine Worlds posters. They are due Tuesday. Read up to chapter 20 in "The Loki Wolf".
ELA 8: Worked on poetry dossier.
PAA 12: Our reverse tie-dye was awesome. I did not expect the shirts to turn orange, but they turned out great.
ELA 7: Read chapter 13.

Tuesday, November 8

ELA 7: Work on character webs for "The Summer of the Swans".
PAA 12: Reminder that we are reverse tie-dying our black t-shirts tomorrow. Bring your money for the shirts. They are five dollars each.
ELA 9: Worked on the Norse Nine Worlds posters. There is another work class tomorrow. The posters will be due November 15. We read "Iduna's Apples" and "Irraweka, Mischief Maker". Tomorrow we will compare and contrast the two stories.
CE 7: We played two types of trust games. Some of your daughters can not be trusted. :)

Monday, November 7

ELA 8: Circle story writing. We wrote three part stories with different authors for each section.
ELA 7: Read to chapter 12.
SCI 7: Worked on chapter reviews and unit cover pages. Both are due tomorrow. You need to hand in the review asap so I can get it marked and handed back by Wednesday. Remember that the test will be on Tuesday, November 15.
PAA 12: Our tie-dye sat all weekend and looks amazing. Except for a slight hiccup, the shirts were a success. We will miss class because of the Remembrance Day service tomorrow, so we will reverse tie-dye with bleach on Wednesday.

My volleyball team won at Conference this weekend so we move on to regional playoffs. Please pray for our volleyball team.

Just think what Mr Bean's report card would say...

Tie-Dye Fun