FALL and OCTOBER Activities

FALL season has arrived and students have been busy!
Everybody has settled into routines and have completed units in:

-Literacy
-Reading Comprehension
-Numeracy
-Functional Math skills

Postcards have arrived to the destinations we sent them:
-Finland arrived in 27 days, travelling 7,543 km
-Massachusetts arrived in 28 days, travelling 4,064 km (taking longer than postcards to Europe)
-Germany arrived in 23 days, travelling 7,866 km
One of our postcards was even picked as a Favorite for a postcrosser in France!  We do live in a Beautiful city!
Students located these locations and plotted them on maps.  We await the arrivals of postcards to Russia, China and the Netherlands!

PEER TUTORS

Meet Diarmuid

Diarmuid is a grade 10 student.  He is easygoing, kind and very helpful with our students.  He is currently attending Photography class with Brennan.  Both seem to be having an awesome time, as they finish a project on underwater photography!  We are lucky to have Diarmuid!

Meet Meghan

Meghan works in our classroom, with a sunshiney personality and a quiet confidence.  The students enjoy working with her.  She brings a shining spirit to our room!

Student Corner

Meet Nick

Nick is a grade 10 student.  He has been working very hard since the beginning of the school year.  Recently, Nick has scored 100% in his Bright Lights reading program.  Also, for 3 weeks in a row, he 'Aced' Math Wizard multiplication.  Nick made a pretty cool car in woodworking too!  Nick chose an interesting writing topic from the Journal Jar.

If I was principal of my school for a day....

I would give everyone detention, I would tell announcements all day on the P.A., I would talk to all the students, and I will ask them how their day went and what courses they're taking.  I would have assemblies for all the students to talk about sports.  I would speak to the Grade 12s to talk about graduation.  I would speak to the Grade 8s about high school. 

KEEP UP the great work Nick!

Meet Cole

Cole is a grade 9 student.  He is working hard with Ms. Bowkett, practicing his sight words and continuing to build his reading vocabulary.  Cole has a great sense of humour and is FUN to be around! 


SIGNS of FALL

Mr. Deutsch's class went for Nature walks and brought back evidence of Signs of Fall!  They decorated our display cases with beautifully colored Fall leaves. 

Ms. Fuller's class researched and answered the question 'Why do leaves change color?'

CHLOROPHYLL became the new word in our class!

SCIENCE EXPERIMENT

Rock Candy

Students gathered together:
-glass jars
-water
-sugar
-a wooden skewer & a clothespin

After proposing their hypotheses, we boiled water and stirred in 22 pounds of sugar, separated into individual jars.  We are presently observing and waiting!

Some skewers already have sugar crystals attached to them.
Stay Tuned for the final conclusion!

Looking forward to:
-Halloween Activities
-news from Mr. Deutsch's pumpkin patch trip
-Daylight Savings
-Remembrance Day Reflections!