Bible 6:  M:  crossword

Report Cards 6:  students were given their report cards today 

Tests:  grade 6 finally received their Socials tests today (average 63%) and grammar tests (average 56%), but, unfortunately, many of them were put in the portfolio binders this afternoon since we worked on portfolios.  The grade 7 students will get their grammar tests back Monday (avg:  63%).

Declamation Contest:  First of all, I would like to congratulate all the participants on their hard work!  The work is not over for the following contestants:  grade 6:  Nicole Bysterveld, Melissa Gelderman, Leanne Hellewell, Kaylee Lieuwen, and Reuben Louwerse, and grade 7:  Caleb Bos, Shauna Hoogstra, Grant Nienhuis, Jayden Tolsma, and Colin VanWoudenberg.  They will be visiting the different classrooms next week to prepare for the big JCS Declamation Contest next Thursday!











JL
P.S.  Enjoy your long weekend!

Reading 7:  W:  finish "Ryan's Well" with accompanying handout

Grammar 6:  W:  finish Ex. B and C on "Transitive and Intransitive Verbs"

Book Cover 6:  W:  if students wish to participate in the contest for a Book Cover Mom, the School Flooded, they should submit it by tomorrow afternoon

JL

P.S.  Don't forget to dress up as your favorite Book Character tomorrow!

Memory Work 6:  Th:  Ps. 55:10; next Th:  Hy. 13:4, 5

Spelling 6 and 7:  Th:  pompeii, nepotism, kerchief, alien, sleigh; (last week's average for grade 6:  84%; grade 7:  79%)

French grade 7:  Today, we started our unit on France.  They also received their first assignment today which involves a lap book to be finished by our France Day on Friday, December 20.  The lap should be illustrated with a map of Canada and France, a paragraph about a famous French person, a paragraph about a monument in Paris, the French flag, and a French recipe.  Only the French recipe can be written in English.  Students should bring some food which they made according to the recipe to share with their buddy on France Day.  The food should be prepared at home (in other words, it should not be necessary to use the JCS kitchen for this). 

JL  

Bible 6:  Thank you to all the parents who signed the tests that went home on Wednesday (average:  70%).  Sorry, I neglected to mention that they were going home.

Socials 7:  Tests were returned for parent signatures today; the class average was 68%.  Grade 6 tests will be returned Monday (average 63%) for parent signatures.

French 6:  Tuesday's French quizzes will be returned on Monday:  class average was 71%.

JL

P.S.  Last Friday, I took eight entries to the Legion; today I take one entry to the mail for Polar Expressions Publishing.  This week, I posted three more contests on the wall for the students to enter. 

STUDENTS HAVE MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARPEN THEIR PENS IN THEIR QUESTS FOR FAME AND FORTUNE!!!! 

Bible 6:  Th:  questions "Salvation From and For Moab"

JL

P.S.  Tomorrow's focus will be on celebrating a belated "National Child Day" to commemorate the day Canada adopted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child for Social Studies grade 6 and 7.

Reading grade 6 and 7:  Time for  a summary of this week's chapters 2-4!

Valli's 'happiest day' continues as she travels high on top of a coal truck.  This is very exciting for her because it is her very first ride in a motorized vehicle, and she sees green fields for the first time.  Finally, the truck stops, and she is discovered.  After some arguing, the two men take her to a beautiful middle-aged woman.  She seems to be the owner of the large home with many women and children who seem well-clothed and fed (it is a brothel, but Valli never realizes it).  For the first time, Valli doesn't have to eat the leftover food from her cousins, and she also gets her first bath.  It is after the bath, when one of the women is cutting her toenails, that Valli's leprosy is discovered.  She doesn't know why they throw her out so quickly.  Dejected and lonely, Valli wanders around Kolkata until an old man and his goat make her smile.  He advises her to give away the soap she still carries from her bath, and, in so doing, she makes friends with a homeless family whose language she doesn't speak.  She begins to develop the philosophy and behaviours she needs to survive as a homeless person:  she decides that, since everything on earth is borrowed, she doesn't need to own anything.  She resumes her enjoyment of living.

JL 

Spelling 6 and 7:  F:  yippee, zigzaggedness, froufrou, peekaboo, abracadabra; last week's spelling averages:  grade 6:  68%; grade 7:  64%

French 6:  Tu:  students have a French vocab quiz on the last dozen words we learned in French; while we usually have French quizzes on Thursday, the timing of this one is precipitated by reporting deadlines!!

Memory Work grade 6:  Th:  Ps. 50:8; next Th:  Ps. 55:12; students no longer need to learn Amos 3:1-8 because we have too many songs to learn (and a text to review) for the Christmas Concert plus STUDENTS IN GRADE 6 AND 7 SHOULD NOT FORGET ABOUT THE CLASSROOM DECLAMATION CONTEST NEXT WEEK!!

JL

P.S.  Thanks to Mrs. Winkelaar for teaching the grade 6 students today!!

Hi Gr 7 parents,

This evening there may be some confusion regarding the church history test for tomorrow.  It will be a take home test, which the students can start working on in class, but then take home. They are allowed to use their notes, textbooks, and whatever other resources available to them.  As a result, I told them they did not need to study this evening for the test, as there is not anything they will need to 'memorize' per se.  They can read their notes over if you like, but I do not think it will help them do any better on the test because they will have their textbooks available anyways.

Also, there is a volleyball tournament for next Friday afternoon at CCHS. More details to follow.

Thanks,

MR

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Bible 6:  Th:  handout "A Double Portion, Please"

Writing 6:  Th:  prayer

French 7:  Th:  vocab quiz (which was almost halfway done last week until Miss Lanting discovered that the answers were on the wall)

French 6:  Th:  handout "Classifions!"

Readers' Theater 7:  Th:  perform poems

JL 

Memory Work grade 6:  Th:  Ps. 49:1; next Th:  Ps. 50:8; end-of-the-month text:  Amos 3:1-8

Declamation Contest 6 and 7:  Nine students in grade 7 and eight students from grade 6 still need to pick their poems.

Spelling 6 and 7:  F:  resplendent, independent, intermittent, effervescent, feral

Bible 6:  W:  questions "A Typical Pagan King"; students received a review sheet for the test on Friday

Art 6:  W:  manga/pokemon comic is due

JL

Reading grade 6 and 7:  We will be reading No Ordinary Day by Deborah Ellis over the next month.  Deborah Ellis is more famous for her trilogy, The Breadwinner, a story about a girl in Afghanistan.  The book is meant to trigger discussions having to do with our Social Studies themes of child labour, third world countries, poverty, and leprosy.  I intend to keep you up to date on each chapter as we go through it, so that you will be ready for any questions that your children might ask you in connection with the book.

This week, (Tuesday for grade 7, and Friday for grade 6), we will read chapter 1 which finds our heroine, Valli, in her poverty-stricken hometown in India.  Her job is to collect coal to supplement the family income.  She is not allowed to attend the outdoor school that is set up outside behind the tea shop.  She wishes she were a goat so that she wouldn't always be so hungry.  She thinks she has 'magic feet' but doesn't realize that she actually has no feeling in her feet because she has leprosy.  Then she discovers that her 'auntie' is actually just a woman who was paid by her own family to watch over her.  She decides to hop on a truck and run away, but she has no idea where or when the truck will stop.

JL

READING REQUIREMENTS:  the following students are behind in the reading requirements (the list will also be posted in the Middle School hallway):

Grade 6:  Aidan (2 Book Talks); Nicole (2 AR tests, 1 Book Talk); Ben S. (1 AR test); Melissa (1 AR test); Feben (1 Book Talk); Leanne (2 AR tests, 1 Book Talk); Martha (1 Book Talk); Aaron (1 Book Talk); Travis (1 Book Talk); Tyler (1 Book Talk)
Grade 7:  Levi (2 Book Talks); Elia (2 AR tests); Karissa (1 AR test); Lauren D. (1 Book Talk); Ben G. (2 AR tests); Larissa (2 AR tests); Grant (2 AR tests); Kyle (1 Book Talk); Jordan (2 AR tests); Lauren S. (1 Book Talk, 2 AR tests); Jolene (2 AR tests); Michael (1 AR test); Jayden (1 Book Talk, 2 AR tests); Casey (2 AR tests); Colin (2 AR tests)

JL
P.S.  Don't forget about tomorrow's due date for having a poem for the Declamation Contest!  (grade 6:  twenty lines or more; grade 7:  twenty-five lines or more)

Memory Work grade 6:  Th:  Ps. 39:3; next Th:  49:1; end-of-the-month text:  Amos 3:1-8

Memory Work grade 6 and 7:  there is no end-of-the-month poem because students will be memorizing their own poem for the Declamation Contest at the end of the month

Bible grade 6:  Tu:  quiz on "Israel's Neighbours"

Language Arts grade 6:  Tu:  two haiku poems are due

Reading Requirements 6 and 7:  an updated list of delinquent students was posted in the hall--by now, students should have completed two AR tests and two Book Talks

Socials 6 and 7:  fourteen students will be banned from Japan Day unless they have completed the Socials group project by the day we celebrate it  (grade 6:  Wed.; grade 7:  Th.)

Spelling 6 and 7:  flammeous, humongous, notorious, rhombus, onus; last week's results:  grade 6:  74%; grade 7:  74%  (a tie!!)

JL

P.S.  My Student Helper and I forgot to pass out the Shop Easy Forms--please fill out a handwritten letter detailing the gift certificates you need, and we will try our best to accommodate!