Wednesday 28 October 2015

October 28th 2015 Day 1

9F ES
    Today we worked on a chapter 1 practice test.  We also had time to review all the answers. Their test is on Friday October 30th 2015.

7F FLA
    Students had a double block to work on their Novel Study final project. They should be done their Rough draft and be starting on the good copy. Project is Due Monday November 2nd 2015.

Film 8
      We continued watching Enchanted.

7H SS
    Today we discussed the government of New France. We will continue this discussion tomorrow!

Monday 26 October 2015

October 26th 2015 Day 5

Homeroom 7H  Don forget about our magazine  & Cookie Dough Fundraisers.... Selling them helps you earn money that can go towards the fee for your Christmas activity!!

Health 7E
   Today we finished off watching Matilda. We discussed why it is so important to be true to who you are and not be afraid of being unique.
    During our second block we started talking about how to stay organised at school and at home. As it is the end of October I gave students time to re-organize their binders and lockers  with my help and the help of our SWAT students.

SS 7H
  Today we did some mapping. Learning where the first 2 colonies of New France were located. We Learnt that Pierre de Monts founded Port-Royal and that Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Québec.

ES 7F
 Today we finished off our representations of the story of Jacques Cartier. We then proceeded to learn a bit more about Samuel de Champlain and how he help found Acadia.

Film Studies 8
We finished Mary Poppins and started our final Film in our live action meets animation unit. We are watching Enchanted (2007)

Thursday 22 October 2015

October 22nd 2015 Day 3

9F ES
     While I was away students worked on questions regarding how the media affects how laws are passed.

7H SS
     Today we continued talking about Imperialism. Students also learnt some new vocabulary words that we will use a lot in Chapter 2.

FSL 8
    We started our second unit on clothing.

9F ES
   This afternoon we debated the bills that the students made. We had a great class pretending to pass laws such as creating a cafeteria, and rejecting law such as making gym classes longer. We have 2 more laws to complete debating and we will do so in our next class.

7F FLA
   Today was our reading period in the library.

Monday 19 October 2015

October 19th 2015 ELECTION DAY

ELECTION DAY!!!!

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I voted!!

Here are some links to some live feeds of the election coverage :

Global New Live Stream
CBC Live Results
CTV Election Coverage


7H Students don't forget a non microwavable lunch tomorrow for the field trip!! Please Dress for the weather!!


Friday 16 October 2015

October 16th 2015 Day 5

Health 7E
       Today we started watching a movie that discusses the theme of being true to yourself and not letting others tell you who you should be. We will continue watching Matilda next week. This movie fits nicely into our unit on being Unique.

7H SS
    Students wrote their chapter 1 test. Those that did not finish will be given more time on Monday to finish the test.

7F ES
     Students wrote their Chapter 1 tests. If they needed more time they were asked to come in at lunch to finish it.

Film 8
  WE continued watching Mary Poppins and then went and watched the volleyball game in the gym that was taking place for our Panthers Tournament.

Thursday 15 October 2015

October 15th 2015 Day 4

7F FLA
     Today we discussed the Student vote that happened in the afternoon. As we didn't have social yesterday I gave my students an extra period to study for their social studies test that will take place tomorrow.

7F ES
    Students continued studying in partners. Students Voted in our afternoon period! :D

FSL 7
   We finished off our presentations. We then started our end of the Unit movie. We are watching Matilda in french. Unfortunately the subtitles weren't available, to make up for it I am stopping the movie every few minutes to explain some parts of the movie. Luckily the majority of the class has seen this movie in English.

7H ES
   Today the students had the whole period minus about 10 minutes to study. Those Ten minutes were used to participate in our Student Vote! Test is Tomorrow.
 

Wednesday 14 October 2015

October 14th 2015 Day 3


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 Thursday October 15th your kids are voting..............................do your part on October 19th as well !!

9F ES
   This morning students finished up taking down notes on the political party that I grouped them into.

7H SS
    Today class was spent explaining the student vote. We then took a short online quiz to see what party shared the same view as the students. Students were asked to then research the party that showed up on their results and look into their platforms.
     At the end of class students were given time to discuses their findings and opinions with fellow students.

FSL 8
    Today we started a film study to end our Animal Unit... we watched Madagascar 2 in French ( with English subtitles). We will be working on a worksheet next class.

9F ES
    Student groups presented their political parties. They will be Voting in Student Vote tomorrow.

7F FLA
   Day 3 is our Library Reading Period. Students read in the library their french book of choice. Don forget to renew if you need too!

Friday 9 October 2015

October 9th 2015 Day 2

7H SS
    Today we presented our seeing is believing projects. We some technical difficulties with some projects and were not able to show them to the class.
    I also handed out a study guide to the students. Their Chapter 1 Test is set for Friday October 16th 2015.

7F ES
     Today we started working on a study guide for their chapter 1 test that will take place on October 16th 2015. 

     We Also discussed the Student Vote and The students shared what they know about each of the Candidates.

7F FLA
    Today we continued in our novel study. We looked at chapter 7 Vocab, Read Chapter 7 and then completed the questions for Chapter 7.

FSL 7
   Today we presented our Schools. Those that were on a school field trip will be presenting next class. We then started in our grammar books!

9F ES
   Today we continued with our research on the political parties. Each group will be presenting its platforms on Wednesday.

Thursday 8 October 2015

October 8th 2015 Day 1

9F ES
    - Today the students were asked to complete 2 different online quizzes that would help them understand where they stood on political questions. These quizzes also helped to show them what party they tend to side with in this election.
   - During our second block, I groups the student sup to research the 5 major political parties. Each groups had a minimum of 5 students what were researching together the Parties Platforms. Tomorrow we will be continuing this research and next week we will be sharing it with each other in order to make our final decisions to make an informed student vote on October 15th.

Link to the Quizzes we did:

I side with Canada Quiz

Political Compass Canada 2015 Test

7F FLA
    GRAMMAR DAY!!
  Today we learnt how to conjugate verbs at the imperfect tense ( Imparfait).
After our note taking students were asked to complete the 3 worksheets on the Imparfait tense for the following day one.


7H SS
 Today was the last class to work on their project. We will be presenting them tomorrow.

Wednesday 7 October 2015

October 7th 2015 Day 6

7H SS
   Students continued to work on their projects that are due Friday. They have 1 more period tomorrow to work on them.

7F ES
    Today we started presenting the project. We will continue presenting on Friday.

7F FLA
     Chapter 7 questions and vocabulary are due for Friday. Tomorrow is Grammar Day, Be sure to have completed all the pages asked.

FSL 8
     Today we presented the Animal projects.  Students were then given their brand new grammar booklets ( to keep) and we worked on the first few pages.

9F ES
   We had a presentation about the elections come in today.

Tuesday 6 October 2015

October 6th 2015 Day 5

Health 7E
   - Today we presented our I am Unique Projects.  We then took a look in the magazine The Grip and read some articles and discussed their importance to the.

7H SS
   - Students worked on their projects. I made a slight modification because of a problem on We Video. Students are now allowed to create a powerpoint presentation but with the same information as the video was supposed to have.

7F ES
  - Today was the last class to work on the video project. We will be presenting these projects tomorrow.

Film 8
  - Today we worked on our progression of sound and color projects. Those that did not finish were asked to complete them for next class.
   - We then began our second unit. Animation meets live action.. First on the Screan----- SPACE JAM!!

Monday 5 October 2015

October 5th 2015 Day 4

7F ES
   - Today we worked on the Voir c'est Croire Project that we started last week. Tomorrow is the last class to work on the project. We will be presenting them on Wednesday October 7th 2015

FSL 7
   - Today we had our last day to work on the Create your own school project. Students handed in the project to me and we will be presenting on Wednesday!

7F FLA
     - Today students worked on and handed in at the end of the period the Mini-A fleur de peau project. Wednesday we will continue reading the book.

7H SS
   - Today was another period to work on the Video project. Project is due on Friday October 9th 2015.

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