Monday, 4 February

First, please see the special note from yesterday about this week's art class - bring recording devices!

Also, there is a parent meeting at the school on Tuesday, 19 Feb at 6:30 p.m.

Square heads for practicing colours
(thanks, Joanna, for the composition
idea).

Today we began with a review in French.  We reviewed the colours, twice.  We also reviewed the pronouns and the verb, to be (present tense).  Today we introduced some adjectives in a bis to be able to construct some simple sentences.  Report cards come out at the end of the month and I will be including this sort of thing in this term's oral assessment so keep practicing if you're hesitant.  After French the students left for band.  They had individual practical exams today - I hope everyone is practicing.

adjectives: happy, etc.







After recess we all went to the library to meet with the other classes to meet author Susin Neilsen, who wrote Word Nerd.  The students received a wonderful presentation.  I thought Ms. Taggert was going to explode she was so excited.  Ms. Neilsen showed the students her work as a t.v. writer as well as as a novelist.  She also demonstrated how screenwriting and novel writing can merge.  Some volunteers got the chance to act out a scene from her book.  Everyone seemed to get a lot out of the experience.


After lunch we finished watching the documentary on water.  We took a few notes as we discussed the idea of convergence and how it could apply to this issue. We also took time to consider an individual inquiry question that we could each apply to this topic.  The one on the notes page is mine and may act as a model.  Remember that a good inquiry question is open-ended (and is open to modification - we don't always get it perfect, first time).  There is no homework other than to create a question.  If you were absent, please use the link to finish watching the show.

Link to: "Last Call at the Oasis"

We ended the day with some basketball dribbling relay races in the gym.

FSA testing begins for the grade 7s tomorrow.