French grade 7: F: Some students still seem to have the idea that "la recette" which they are required to prepare for our France Day tomorrow is for the whole class; however, they need only a bring enough for their reading buddy!
French 6: Th: finish one side of the handout "Qu'est-ce que tu fais?"
JL
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
STAR Reading Tests Results: grade 6 students brought their STAR reading reports home for signatures today, and grade 7 students will take them home for signatures tomorrow.
No Ordinary Day Summary: (chapters 8-15) Dr. Indra takes Valli to the hospital where she checks her feet and gives her a good meal. The highlight of the day for Valli was looking through a microscope at her own blood. Her happiness is shattered, however, when she wakes up the following morning and sees lepers in her dormitory. She runs away and begins living on the streets again. Her difficulty in readjusting to homelessness after such promise was held out to her is manifested in her meanness and sadness. She manages to get into a mall where she steals from a table in the food court and tries to buy a book before getting thrown out. Finally, she faces the truth that she needs to go back to the hospital. At the hospital, no one knows what to do with her until Dr. Indra arrives. She presents Valli with two options: stay for treatment and respect the lepers or go back to the streets. She decides to stay. Her first revelation comes when she really looks at the tea lady (leper) for the first time. She finds that she is able to look past her missing nose and fingers. All her tiredness catches up to her, and she spends a lot of time sleeping in her very first bed. During her waking hours, she wants to learn as much as she can. She learns about the circulatory system and how to make pie charts. She is given her first Christmas present and her first hug. When the book ends, she is about to taste ice cream for the first time.
JL
No Ordinary Day Summary: (chapters 8-15) Dr. Indra takes Valli to the hospital where she checks her feet and gives her a good meal. The highlight of the day for Valli was looking through a microscope at her own blood. Her happiness is shattered, however, when she wakes up the following morning and sees lepers in her dormitory. She runs away and begins living on the streets again. Her difficulty in readjusting to homelessness after such promise was held out to her is manifested in her meanness and sadness. She manages to get into a mall where she steals from a table in the food court and tries to buy a book before getting thrown out. Finally, she faces the truth that she needs to go back to the hospital. At the hospital, no one knows what to do with her until Dr. Indra arrives. She presents Valli with two options: stay for treatment and respect the lepers or go back to the streets. She decides to stay. Her first revelation comes when she really looks at the tea lady (leper) for the first time. She finds that she is able to look past her missing nose and fingers. All her tiredness catches up to her, and she spends a lot of time sleeping in her very first bed. During her waking hours, she wants to learn as much as she can. She learns about the circulatory system and how to make pie charts. She is given her first Christmas present and her first hug. When the book ends, she is about to taste ice cream for the first time.
JL
Monday, December 16, 2013
Memory Work grade 6: Th: Ps. 70:2; Th: (after the break): Ps. 82:2
Spelling grade 6 and 7: there aren't any new words (see the reason in the previous blog), but all the students who turned in their crossword today got it back by the end of the day so that they can review already tonight!
French 6: Th: requiz on 'jouer/faire' since last Thursday's average was 57%
JL
P.S. All the students have submitted their skating forms! PLEASE ALSO SIGN AND RETURN THE PERMISSION FORM FOR THE CLASS REHEARSAL TO THE CHILLIWACK CULTURAL CENTRE T-O-M-O-R-R-O-W! Thank you!
P.S.S. Thank you to all the students for the unexpected Werther's candies and gift card to David's Tea! It wasn't necessary but very sweet all the same!
Spelling grade 6 and 7: there aren't any new words (see the reason in the previous blog), but all the students who turned in their crossword today got it back by the end of the day so that they can review already tonight!
French 6: Th: requiz on 'jouer/faire' since last Thursday's average was 57%
JL
P.S. All the students have submitted their skating forms! PLEASE ALSO SIGN AND RETURN THE PERMISSION FORM FOR THE CLASS REHEARSAL TO THE CHILLIWACK CULTURAL CENTRE T-O-M-O-R-R-O-W! Thank you!
P.S.S. Thank you to all the students for the unexpected Werther's candies and gift card to David's Tea! It wasn't necessary but very sweet all the same!
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Bible grade 6: students received a review sheet for Thursday's test "Israel's Slide to Destruction"
Vocabulary grade 6 and 7: students received a crossword to review the forty last spelling words for Wednesday's Vocabulary Test (just like last time, there will be ten multiple choice questions)
Spelling grade 6 and 7: none this week (Friday's class averages on the spelling dictation: grade 7: 76%; grade 6: 82%)
Students Who Need to Catch Up on the Reading Requirements: grade 7: Lauren (1 Book Talk); Elia (1 Book Talk, 3 AR tests); Larissa (1 AR test); Kyle (1 Book Talk, 1 AR test); Kiara (1 AR test); Grant (2 AR tests); Jordan (1 Book Talk, 3 AR tests); Jolene (1 Book Talk, 2 AR tests); Jayden (1 Book Talk); Casey (3 AR tests); Colin (1 AR test); grade 6: Aidan (3 Book Talks); Nicole (2 Book Talks, 1 AR test); Feben (2 Book Talks); Leanne (2 Book Talks, 2 AR tests); Martha (2 Book Talks); Aaron (1 Book Talk); Tyler (2 Book Talks)
JL
P.S. Please sign the Parent Report form going home on Monday that shows the Reading Range of your child going into Term 2.
Vocabulary grade 6 and 7: students received a crossword to review the forty last spelling words for Wednesday's Vocabulary Test (just like last time, there will be ten multiple choice questions)
Spelling grade 6 and 7: none this week (Friday's class averages on the spelling dictation: grade 7: 76%; grade 6: 82%)
Students Who Need to Catch Up on the Reading Requirements: grade 7: Lauren (1 Book Talk); Elia (1 Book Talk, 3 AR tests); Larissa (1 AR test); Kyle (1 Book Talk, 1 AR test); Kiara (1 AR test); Grant (2 AR tests); Jordan (1 Book Talk, 3 AR tests); Jolene (1 Book Talk, 2 AR tests); Jayden (1 Book Talk); Casey (3 AR tests); Colin (1 AR test); grade 6: Aidan (3 Book Talks); Nicole (2 Book Talks, 1 AR test); Feben (2 Book Talks); Leanne (2 Book Talks, 2 AR tests); Martha (2 Book Talks); Aaron (1 Book Talk); Tyler (2 Book Talks)
JL
P.S. Please sign the Parent Report form going home on Monday that shows the Reading Range of your child going into Term 2.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
Memory Work grade 6: this Th: Ps. 66:1; next Th: Ps. 70:2 (with all the confusion in the move out of our classroom, we somehow ended up with Ps. 66:1 instead of Ps. 72:1)
Spelling 6 and 7: F: penguin, cruiser, quisling, quixotic, biscuit
French 6: Th: quiz on conjugations of 'faire/jouer'
French 7: no quiz this week!
JL
Spelling 6 and 7: F: penguin, cruiser, quisling, quixotic, biscuit
French 6: Th: quiz on conjugations of 'faire/jouer'
French 7: no quiz this week!
JL
Thursday, December 5, 2013
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR EIGHT DECLAIMERS, and especially to our finalists: Caleb Bos (1st), Reuben Louwerse (2nd), and Nicole Bysterveld (3rd)!
We would also like to thank Mrs. Heather Byker and Mrs. Erin Timmerman for their hard work in judging the contestants!
Bible 6: F: questions "The Day of the Lord"
JL
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
No Ordinary Day Summary (chapters 5-7): Valli was trying to sleep in front of a computer store when the sound of police sirens forces her to finish her sleep in the cemetery where it was quieter and no one would notice her blanket and warm jacket and try to steal them. Many other homeless Indians were also sleeping in the cemetery, taking advantage of the fact that the guard was incapacitated from home-brewed booze. In the morning, she escapes the cemetery before the guard can wake her up with his long stick. She spends a pleasant hour chatting with a fortune teller, until she notices that his feet have the tell-tale signs of leprosy. After fleeing in fear, she realizes that she is hungry, so she goes to a tea-seller who has sometimes given her tea for free. She nearly doesn't get any because the tea-seller's brother is angry that he is always giving tea to street urchins, but she finally gets her tea. She enjoys it while talking to some clay statutes of two gods who, she feels, seem to be smiling at her. However, she is still hungry, so she begins diving in the Ganges River for the coins people throw into it in order to be blessed. Unfortunately, she can't find any before she gets very tired, and so she steals the coins from a little girl who is momentarily distracted. Then she disappears under the water before the little girl and her family can figure out where the coins went. When she gets out of the water, she sees a woman reading a Bible by a cremation pit. She is a doctor who immediately notices that Valli doesn't realize that she is standing on some hot coals from the pit. She wants to take Valli with her to the hospital, but Valli is too distrustful to go with her in the taxi, and so the two of them begin the long walk to the hospital.
JL
P.S. Congratulations to the three students who won the Book Cover contest: Nicole Bysterveld (1st), Thomas Thalen (2nd), and James Thalen (3rd)!
JL
P.S. Congratulations to the three students who won the Book Cover contest: Nicole Bysterveld (1st), Thomas Thalen (2nd), and James Thalen (3rd)!
Monday, December 2, 2013
Memory Work grade 6: Th: Hy. 13:4,5; next Th: Ps. 72:1
Spelling grade 6 and 7: F: wrestle, mistletoe, axle, castle, yokel; last week's averages: grade 6: 80%; grade 7: 79%
Bible 6: Tu: quiz tomorrow on last Thursday`s crossword homework
JL
P.S. I`ve had a forgetful day today: I forgot to return grade 7 grammar tests (which I`ll try to remember to do tomorrow), and I forgot the Shop Easy forms (please don`t hesitate to request your order by handwritten note).
Spelling grade 6 and 7: F: wrestle, mistletoe, axle, castle, yokel; last week's averages: grade 6: 80%; grade 7: 79%
Bible 6: Tu: quiz tomorrow on last Thursday`s crossword homework
JL
P.S. I`ve had a forgetful day today: I forgot to return grade 7 grammar tests (which I`ll try to remember to do tomorrow), and I forgot the Shop Easy forms (please don`t hesitate to request your order by handwritten note).
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