Week of March 26 - 30, 2018

** Easter Holidays: No School on 

Friday March 30, Monday, April 2.

Wednesday HW
1.  20 minutes of reading.
2.  Book report due Thursday April 5
3.  Pourquoi Tale due Wednesday April 4.  Outlined in the Google Classroom
4.  MMS pages 136-37.

Tuesday HW
1.  20 minutes of reading.
2.  Book report due Thursday April 5
3.  Pourquoi Tale due Wednesday April 4.  Outlined in the Google Classroom
4.  Math Quiz:  Metric conversions (e.g., mm to cm, cm to dm or m, m to km) and Perimeter with appropriate formulas learned in class.
5.  MMS pages 134-35.

Monday HW
1.  20 minutes of reading.
2.  Book report due Thursday April 5
3.  Pourquoi Tale due Wednesday April 4.  Outlined in the Google Classroom
4.  Math Quiz:  Metric conversions (e.g., mm to cm, cm to dm or m, m to km) and Perimeter with appropriate formulas learned in class.

Week of March 19 - 23, 2018

** FYI:  We are still awaiting approval of our trip forms for Camp Couchiching.

** FYI #2:  We are 10 weeks away from writing the EQAO assessment.  Students need to be present in class as consistently as possible and make up for absences due to illness, appointments, or travel outside of regular class periods.  I cannot catch the kids up while I'm working on the current day's lesson.


Thursday HW
1.  MMS page 132-33
2.  20 minutes of reading
3.  Read and take notes that you sort in a Google doc on the Africville clips.  Use these notes as a historical basis to write a news article about this Canadian community.  You get to choose the perspective.  Samples are shown on the Google Classroom.  Due this Friday.
Students can make appointments with me before school, at lunch or after school outside my regular help times, but they cannot arrive without prior arrangement.  

Wednesday HW
1.  MMS page 82-83
2.  20 minutes of reading
3.  Read and take notes that you sort in a Google doc on the Africville clips.  Use these notes as a historical basis to write a news article about this Canadian community.  You get to choose the perspective.  Samples are shown on the Google Classroom.  Due this Friday.
4.  A significant number of students have overdue work.  Their names are on the whiteboard in class - fourteen names on it - and it is their responsibility to finish it up by Friday this week.
Students can make appointments with me before school, at lunch or after school outside my regular help times, but they cannot arrive without prior arrangement.  

Tuesday HW
1.  MMS page 80-81
2.  20 minutes of reading
3.  Read and take notes that you sort in a Google doc on the Africville clips.  Use these notes as a historical basis to write a news article about this Canadian community.  You get to choose the perspective.  Samples are shown on the Google Classroom.  Due this Friday.
4.  A significant number of students have overdue work.  Their names are on the whiteboard in class - fourteen names on it - and it is their responsibility to finish it up by Friday this week.  Students can make appointments with me before school, at lunch or after school outside my regular help times, but they cannot arrive without prior arrangement.  

Monday HW
1.  MMS page 80 only
2.  20 minutes of reading
** FYI:  We are still awaiting approval of our trip forms for Camp Couchiching.

Week of March 5 - 9, 2018

** A note about Camp Couchiching
Some parents may have noticed that the first proposed date for trip deposits arrived today (March 7).  However no student has been given a permission form for the trip yet.  This is because the trip has yet to be officially approved by the superintendent.  Relevant forms were shared in a timely way for consideration.  Events in the recent past involving excursions have occurred in which student safety was in question.  An abundance of caution is being exercised to assure students and their families that the excursions are safe and properly supervised.  When the final approvals are secured, permission forms will arrive home with students showing new deposit date schedules.  Mr. Hochberg feels reasonably confident that the trip is still going forward and staff are still engaged and expecting to go.  When more information is available it will be promptly shared.  Thank you for your patience.

Wednesday HW
1.  We finished listening to the online clips in class today.  After two full periods, you will have to view/listen to them at home to complete your note-taking if you feel there is further exposure needed.
2.  Math Quiz:  Thursday, March 8 -- Unit four, lessons 10, 11, 12
3.  We will have two more poems to write (a tanka, and a space-themed free verse poem) before our informal poetry cafe on FRIDAY MARCH 9.  In that activity, students will deliver two poems:  one they've written by themselves, and one they have found that inspires them in some way.  Students who are absent for any reason that day are responsible for presenting to me before then or immediately afterwards for an Oral Communication grade.  No extensions are available in class time.  Bring a mug on Friday if you want hot chocolate during the Café.

Tuesday HW
1.  Bring ear buds or headphones to class (that are inexpensive) to use with our Chromebooks.  If you do not finish listening to the online clips in class today and tomorrow, you will have to view/listen to them at home to complete your note-taking.
2.  Math Quiz:  Thursday, March 8 -- Unit four, lessons 10, 11, 12
3.  We will have two more poems to write (a tanka, and a space-themed free verse poem) before our informal poetry cafe on FRIDAY MARCH 9.  In that activity, students will deliver two poems:  one they've written by themselves, and one they have found that inspires them in some way.  Students who are absent for any reason that day are responsible for presenting to me before then or immediately afterwards for an Oral Communication grade.  No extensions are available in class time.  Bring a mug on Friday if you want hot chocolate during the Café.

Monday HW
1.  Bring ear buds or headphones to class (that are inexpensive) to use with our Chromebooks.
2.  Math Quizzes:

• Tuesday March 6 -- Unit four, lessons 8 and 9
• Thursday, March 8 -- Unit four, lessons 10, 11, 12

3.  We will have three more poems to write (a diamante, a tanka, and a space-themed free verse poem) before our informal poetry cafe this week on FRIDAY MARCH 9.  In that activity, students will deliver two poems:  one they've written by themselves, and one they have found that inspires them in some way.  Students who are absent for any reason that day are responsible for presenting to me before then or immediately afterwards for an Oral Communication grade.  No extensions are available in class time.  Bring a mug on Friday if you want hot chocolate during the Café.

4.  Diamante Poem due tomorrow.