End of January News

The Grade 8 fundraiser will begin soon. Chocolate bars should be here Monday and the Mini Peel cards have already arrived. Please keep careful track of all money collected.

Money will have to be returned to the school by February 20.

Students continue to work hard on literature circles.

Geography Test Thursday Jan 30

Math test on Ratio and Rate on Monday Feb 3.

We are keeping our fingers crossed for an outdoor recess sometime. We've seen a lot of UNO over the past few days :)

We are at Amherst!

We went for our visit to Amherst today. We were able to see many of the programs in action. It was a great time! The students are pumped for Grade 9.

Welcome Back

Well last week was certainly interesting. Here's hoping the weather is better this week.

January 14 ( Tues.) is Shadow Day at Amherst. We will be walking to the high school around 9:30. The students will move around the school in a group checking out all there's to know about Grade 9 life. Students will be eating lunch in the cafeteria that day. Please be sure to dress appropriately for the weather.

In literacy we have started literature circles. All the students have selected the book they'd like to read and have formed their groups.

Ratio and Rate is the topic we will be covering in Math for the next couple of weeks. We will also take a look at many real-life math topics such as dicounts (my favourite), sales tax (not really my favourite), commission and interest.

We will be finishing our cell unit in January and continuing with Geography. Another topic we will cover this week is Healthy Food Choices. This is a great topic to start conversations at home.

Don't forget that Friday January 17th is a PA Day.