Friday, November 1st, 2019



Housekeeping: 
-  Grade 7 Parents: don't forget on Tuesday to send your child to school with lots of warm layers and a decent pack lunch (our field trip to Sainte-Marie).

- Grade 8 Parents: the permission form for the trip to Aurora High is now late.

- Grade 8 Parents: a list of all high school open house events can be found here

- Tennis balls - bring one to class!  We are still 4 short

- The sign up for parent-teacher interviews came home (the large blue form).  Some items to remember about setting up an interview:
1. It's first come, first serve
2. If you have more than one child in the school, only submit ONE form.  Send it to school with the eldest child.


Kudos to: Ariana, for kicking the winning run in today's epic game of Mattball.  As well, kudos to Lynx for winning 2/3 of the challenges today!

QOTD: "ALL you need is a sharp knife!"  - Mehraeen.

English:

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- Passion Projects (#1) are due Thursday, November 14.

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Math:

- Final preparation for the math test was today.  We practiced 11 word problems (I have put images of them on the google class).  Link here
- Times Tables : we did the baseline evaluation.  If you scored less than perfect you will need to practice DAILY your times tables. The app for the evaluation is here: 30 questions, numbers 1-10, and 5 seconds per question.

- We will be having our integers test the Monday after Halloween.  It will cover the following topics: adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing integers.  There will be word problems...

History:

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- TWITN for next week: Dawson, Nathan, Dorsa, Hunter, Aiden

French:
- There will be no more class time for the french brochures (they are due Monday)

- Join the Duolingo Classroom!  Check it out on the GC!

Science:

- Cell is due Monday

Health/Phys-Ed:

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Art: 


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MUSIC: 

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DRAMA: 

- Present monologues next class (this Thursday)


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