Monday, October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween

Math test was returned to students today.  Please ask them how they did on it.

P.E. tomorrow - bring gym strip

Music tomorrow - bring instrument, practice sheets due on Thursday

English - practice/memorize In Flanders Field
            - Read: Touching Spirit Bear - to the end of chapter 22 for Friday
            - Read: The Giver - to the end of chapter 18 for Friday
            - Read: Among the Hidden - to the end of chapter 26  for Friday
            - be working on your vocabulary words for these chapters
Science make-up assignments are due this Friday.


Socials - information for Early Man research project


French - finish journal article for Wednesday, Nov. 2

Friday, October 28, 2011

Weekend Homework

English:
    • read Spirit Bear to the end of Ch.16 and Vocabulary to the end of Ch. 12
    • read Among the Hidden to the end of Ch. 20 and Vocabulary to the end of Ch. 16
    • read The Giver to the end of Ch. 14 and Vocabulary to the end of Ch. 11
    • START MEMORIZING IN FLANDERS' FLIED
Science: Make-up project is due Next Friday, Nov. 4th

French: Finish first draft of newspaper article

Socials: Research for Early Man Project

Math: Workbook Sections 2.1 and 2.2

Halloween Dance on Monday at 1:15 to 2:30.  Wear Black and Orange (Costumes at school are not permitted) and bring a non-perishable food item for the Food Bank.

Magazine orders eligible for the next draw need to be handed into the office on Wednesday morning.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Thursday's Homework

Science Tests went home today with at letter.  Please read this with your parent.

English:

  • First summary is due on Friday
    • Spirit Bear Ch. 1-4
    • Among the Hidden Ch 1-5
    • The Giver Ch 1-4
  • Vocabulary due on Friday
    • Spirit Bear to end of Ch. 8
    • Among the Hidden to the end of Ch. 11
    • The Giver to the end of Ch. 8)
  • Read
    • Spirit Bear to the end of Ch. 12
    • Among the Hidden to the end of Ch. 16
    • The Giver to the end of Ch. 11
French: (DUE FRIDAY)
  • first draft of your newspaper article
  • vocabulary test on Friday
  • sheet peux/peu/peut and sont/sons/son

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Wednesday's Homework

English: 

  • First summary is due on Friday
    • Spirit Bear Ch. 1-4
    • Among the Hidden Ch 1-5
    • The Giver Ch 1-4
  • Vocabulary due on Friday
    • Spirit Bear to end of Ch. 8
    • Among the Hidden to the end of Ch. 11
    • The Giver to the end of Ch. 8)
  • Read
    • Spirit Bear to the end of Ch. 12
    • Among the Hidden to the end of Ch. 16
    • The Giver to the end of Ch. 11
French: (DUE FRIDAY)
  • first draft of your newspaper article
  • vocabulary test on Friday
  • sheet peux/peu/peut and sont/sons/son
Social Studies: Those of you who owe Mme Dumas a question sheet about Early Man, please finish it and hand it into her tomorrow morning, first thing


Music: bring your practice sheets tomorrow

P.E. tomorrow - bring gym strip

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Math Test tomorrow

Math - Chapter 1 test tomorrow

English - Read  Spirit Bear to the end of Ch. 8, Giver to the end of Ch. 8, Hidden to the end of Ch.11

French - Feuille de peu peux et peut, et son, sons et sont for Friday and vocabulary test Friday
             - brainstorm ideas for newspaper article

Music- practice sheet due Thursday, practice instrument 15 mins.

Girls' Level 1 volleyball tomorrow morning at 7am and at lunch.
Boys' Level 1 volleyball tomorrow at lunch.

MAGAZINE ORDERS DUE TOMORROW IF YOU WANT YOUR NAME IN THE FIRST DRAW.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Monday's homework

Science Test tomorrow

Math test on Wednesday: Complete Revision du module (p. 26-28) in the workbook for tomorrow

French:
  • finish sheet: peu, peux et peut, et son, sons, et sont for Friday
  • Vocab test Friday
Music tomorrow.  Practice sheets due Thursday

English: Read the following chapters for Wednesday:
  • Touching Spirit Bear to the end of Chapter 8
  • Among the Hidden to the end of Chapter 11
  • The Giver to the end of Chapter 8
Young People's Concert tomorrow: Wear good walking shoes.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW

Sciences - Chapter 1 test on Tuesday.  Please make sure to study hard.

Math - Test on Wednesday.

Socials - finish question sheet
            - dig a hole  (see Mme Dumas)

French - Vocabulary test Monday
            - feuille de grammaire

English - Finish reading chapters and vocabulary words for Monday

Music - practice sheet for Thursday

PLAY OUTSIDE FOR A MINIMUM OF A HOURS EACH DAY

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Wednesday's Homework

Maths - finish questions from a to n, test on Wednesday

P.E. tomorrow - bring gym strip

MUSIC - practice sheets, practice instrument (15 minutes)

French - grammar sheet due Monday, test de vocabulaire - MOnday,

Socials - if you do not already have your dates for your timeline, you need them for tomorrow

Science - TEST TUESDAY

English - finish reading chapters, and do vocabulary words

NO SCHOOL FRIDAY

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Tuesday's Homework

Chapter 1Math test tomorrow.

Early Dismissal Tomorrow at 12:30.

Science Chapter 1 Test next Tuesday.

Read your novel for our Novel Study (The Giver, Touching Spirit Bear, Among the Hidden).

Health and Career presentations continue on Thursday.  Be ready to present.  Also please have all written portions complete.

Anyone who went to Me to We, please send your pictures to Bram at Bramt@live.com so that he can include them in a slide show.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Monday's homework

EARLY-DISMISSAL TOMORROW @ 12:30

English - For Monday, finish reading the assigned chapters for your novel.  Remember to take notes of events, characters, etc.  Find and define your vocabulary words for each chapter.  Don't forget to use it in a sentence.
  • Touching Spirit Bear to the end of Chapter 4
  • The Giver to the end of Chapter 4
  • Among the Hidden to the end of Chapter 5
French (Mme Dumas)- Vocabulary quiz on Monday et finir la feuille "dent et leur"

Math- Chapter 1 test on Wednesday

Sciences Naturelles: Finish review questions for tomorrow.  Chapter test next Tuesday.

P.E. tomorrow

Friday, October 14, 2011

Happy Friday

A special thanks to those parents who have sent me their e-mail address.  I am compiling a group e-mail list so I can be sending you notices.

PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCING:  I am available to meet with you all week (Monday and Thursday from 2:45 -4 :30, Tuesday from 1:00 - 3:30 and Wednesday from 1:00 - 3:00).  You can either come by the room to sign up for a time, or send me an e-mail of a time that works for you and I will slot you in.  As this is more of a get to know you/goal setting meeting, I prefer to meet with both the student and his/her parents.

smabee@sd73.bc.ca

Homework:

Math: Finish sheet 1.6

Sciences Naturelles: finish review questions for Tuesday.  We will be marking these in class and they will be good notes for the Chapter test on Tuesday Oct. 25th.   

Health and Career Education:  Those people who have yet to present their Shark Tank project will be presenting next week.  Please make sure that you have your written portion finished as well.  The assignment and evaluation rubric are on-line for you.  You can find them in the Health and Career Tab.

Music: Practice your instrument for 15 minutes.  Practice sheets are due on Thursday.

English:  Good copies of Creepy Paragraph and illustration are due on Monday.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

We Day

Today we tried to watch the feed from We Day in Vancouver, but it's low quality made it very difficult.

Tonight's homework:
Sciences Naturelles:  Chapter review questions are due for Tuesday morning.  Please see yesterday's post on how to access the textbook chapter on-line.  pg 32-33 #1-8, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19

Music: Practice Sheet for next Thursday. 
           - practice instrument for 15 minutes each night.

Health and Career: The remaining Shark Tank presentations will take place next week.  If you have made a movie of some sort, please check that it works on my computer before the day of your presentation.  You can also post it to You Tube which we can open at school.

PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS
Next week there is early dismissal on Tuesday and Wednesday at 12:30.  I will be available after school all week to meet with you.  Please e-mail me with a time that will work best for you.  If you would prefer to meet in the morning before school, I can meet with you then.

smabee@sd73.bc.ca

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Picture Day tomorrow

Math - finish drawing all 4 linear relations on the graph paper provided

Sciences Naturelles - La revision du chapitre -p. 32-33 #1-8, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19

Vous allez avoir une periode de travail demain, mais les quesionts sont pour mardi prochaine.  Parce que vous ne pouvez pas amener les textes a la maison, j'ai  mis les pages necessaires sur le blog.  Regardez le "post" en bas.

Music - Practice sheets and compositions due tomorrow

Me to We - Meet at SKSS at 3:15am.  Have Fun and sleep well tomorrow night.  We will be watching the broadcast tomorrow between recess and lunch, so make sure to smile and wave if you see a camera pointed at yourself.

Health and Career - Due to the Me to We broadcast, presentations have been postponed until next week.

Sciences Naturelles Chaptitre 1

Here is a PDF of the first Chapter of the Science Text.  Now there is no excuse for you not to have your homework done.

This link will take you to my school district blog.  You will need to then click on the link there to open the file.

http://smabee.blogs.sd73.bc.ca/les-sciences-naturelles/

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Tuesday's Homework and Reminders

Newsletter Home to parents

Girls' volleyball practice at 7:15 am  Boys volleyball practice at lunch

Me to WE Posters to Mme Dumas by 8:30 tomorrow at the very latest

Music Composition and practice sheet due Thursday

Mme Dumas - the last of the Reportage sur une catastrophe naturelle

Health and Career - product presentations are on Thursday and next Tuesday
                             - written portion due this Thursday

Picture day is on Thursday

Friday, October 7, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving

NO SCHOOL MONDAY -EAT TURKEY

Music on the day you get back - Missing practice sheets and Composition are due Tuesday

P.E. on Tudesday

HCED presentation start on Tuesday

Social Studies - brainstorm 10 important events in your life

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Thursday's Homework

Music - practice instruments 15 minutes each day
           - get parents to sign practice sheet

Le francais - Vocabulaire - test demain
                  - reportage demain

Sciences Humaines - 10 evenement important de ta vie - mardi

Maths - quiz demain

HCED - presentation start Tuesday - you all know when you are presenting

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Homework

Music tomorrow - bring instrument and finish worksheet

P.E. tomorrow - bring gyms strip

Math - finish questions #1-8 on page 29    Quiz on Friday

French - Reportage sur les catastrophes naturelles - Friday
            - grammar sheet due Friday

Health and Career - presentations start on Tuesday

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

October 4, 2011

Le francais - Les catastrophes naturelles - news report due Friday
                   - Feuille de grammaire et mots de vocabulaire - Due Friday

Music - Practice Sheet - due Thursday

Girls Volleyball tryouts tomorrow at 7:15am

Health and Career Projects and Presentations  are due next Tuesday/Thursday.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Back At It

Good afternoon

Today was great and I couldn't be happier to be back at school.  The students created a wonderful banner to welcome me back and I've never felt so special.

There is some homework tonight:
  1. Math - Section 1.5 sheet (due tomorrow)
  2. Projet sur les desatres naturelles - (due Friday)
  3. Science - Fiche de mots cles - (due tomorrow)
Parents: If you haven't sent me your e-mail address yet, please e-mail me as smabee@sd73.bc.ca as soon as possible so that I can get a group e-mail set up as soon as possible.

Thanks