Okay, Monday night!

You know, I'm thinking that I will still be able to go snowshoeing when it is light until 8 p.m., that's how much snow we have.

Thank goodness report cards are finished. Now none of us has to work and worry so hard.

This Friday is a special snow day. Everyone wear your outside clothes because the whole school will be outside.

Next Monday and Tuesday, we are cooking Voyageur style. Be sure to show your parents the paper I sent home today. Start looking for those peau de chevreuil clothing items!

Homework:

Graphs and grids, due tomorrow.

Phrase that pays (in your planner on today's space): No thanks. I'm doing it for the love of the blog.

See you tomorrow!

Wonderfully white Wednesday

We had almost 100% of the class in some sort of pink today.

Homework:

S.S. TEST ON MONDAY OR TUESDAY.  BE READY FOR MONDAY. IMMIGRATION and CULTURAL GROUPS. DON'T FORGET DEFINITIONS!

Math - Finish your estimate bars - due tomorrow

S.S. - Vietnamese - due tomorrow

Stranger Came Ashore - Ch. 15 (Yarl Corbie Plans) summary - due tomorrow

Poem - onomatopoeia ski poem - due tomorrow

Phrase that pays (in your planner on today's space): Please hand out the ski days feedback forms!

See you tomorrow!

Tantalizing Tuesday

Don't know why....

TOMORROW IS PINK DAY - WEAR PINK TO SUPPORT THE IDEA OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AT SCHOOL.

Homework:

Novel Study - Chapter 14 Nicol Promises - picture summary and little journal entry on behalf of your character, due tomorrow

S.S. - Think of Us #6 - East Indian descent - due tomorrow, 9 a.m. Remember, a 3 or 4 means no more sentences!

Phrase that pays (in your planner on today's space): I am proud to wear pink today!

See you tomorrow!

Friday and I was all alone in the classroom! Where was everyone?

Please remember that you need, two of you, to remember your Everything Books. See the Phrase that Pays for help!

Homework: Think of Us - West Indies and African descent immigrants.


Phrase that pays (in your planner on today's space): Phone Sol to remind him of his E.B. (Double points who actually DO this.)

See you Monday!!

Nothing, nothing, nothing, but...

Phrase that pays (in your planner on today's space): I wonder how many students took home the wrong math duotang last night.

See you later!

Tuned-up Tuesday

Yes. By that, I mean that every student will probably work a little more diligently on today's Think of Us assingment after having to do so many corrections.

Several students need to return their Everything Books very very soon. We will be using them either next week or the following.

Homework:
Think of Us - Unit 4, Germans

A Stranger Came Ashore - Chapter 10 Nicol

Phrase that pays (in your planner on today's space): We want the snow to last for our Festival du Voyageur! It can vanish immediately afterward.

See you tomorrow!

Marvellous Munchy Monday!

Delicious Valentine's Day. Thanks to all who baked cookies or made little packages of goodies for everyone.

Despite my reputation for giving out sweets, I cut a large platter of oranges and apples. They weren't as popular as the cookies, cupcakes and candies, but some vanished.

Homework:

Think of Us - Corrections for Aboriginals, French and English, due tomorrow

A Stranger Came Ashore - Chapter 9 Deep Water, due tomorrow

Math - Anyone still got a POW - 3 piles of beans to finish? Due Wednesday.

Phrase that pays (in your planner on today's space): I'm going to be broke by the time I pay my P.T.P. debts!

See you tomorrow!

Class list for you Valentine senders:

Sam, Holly, Lee, Rayna, Ashley, Ben, Renee, Courtney, Kalen, Heidi, Jacob, Carmen, Ryan, Reese, Brianna M., Rhys, Rowan, Colten (hi), Madison, Bri S., Ivy, Solomon, Miranda and Shyanna

See you tomorrow!

Thursday only and already!

Homework - Stranger Came Ashore chapters 7 and 8 summaries

Phrase that pays (in your planner on today's space): VALENTINE'S DAY!

See you tomorrow WITH SKIS ON (not mine, yours)!

Woeful Wednesday. I have a cold.

Friday is our last ski day. The kids have done very well. Several have been advanced in their classes.

We completed our last Mystery Powders tests today and the room still smells like burned perfume.

We have hopped into fractions and their percent equivalents. Boy! Was everyone quiet when they were dividing the numerator by the denominator.

Homework:

Novel Study - Chapter illustration and summary of Funeral Magic

Writing - secret poem

Phrase that pays (in your planner on today's space): We need to have that all important poetry discussion. Heart heart!

See you tomorrow!

Tangled Tuesday...

Homework:

The English - S.S. page due tomorrow

The Selkie Summer - due tomorrow

Math tests - signed by parents and returned...

Phrase that pays (in your planner on today's space): Candy vs. points...

See you tomorrow!

No Subject

Mediocre Monday (look that one up)

Homework:

Math - test corrections, parent signature, due back Tuesday

Novel - Illustrate chapter 4, due Tuesday

Colour poem - finish draft for tomorrow (see the sample below - alliteration is the lesson in this one)

 

Sorry. Can't find the outline, but here's the sample showing number of lines and necessary alliterative phrases. 

 

Green, green, greetings green!

Welcome to baby buds bursting.

Green, green, let's groove with green.

Moist moss on the forest floor,

Sumptuous spinach salad for supper.

Yeah! Let's be grateful for glorious green.

Phrase that pays (in your planner on today's space): I love alliteration!

See you tomorrow!

Tuesday Twice (Look at the previous one sent today, featuring Mancala tournament details.)

Reminders:

Skiing on Friday. Come prepared for cold and ice. On the other hand, pray for some beautiful snow.

Homework:

Math - decimals to fractions to decimal order page

Novel - first chapter summary illustration and sentence

S.S. - The French - questions and map.

EVERYTHING IS DUE TOMORROW!

Phrase that pays (in your planner on today's space): Is the stranger the hero of the story? Yes or no.

See you tomorrow!

Slippery and Cold Tuesday Morning! Mancala Tournament Winners!

This is coming late, because I was unable to connect to the internet last night.

Yesterday, we finished the Mancala tournament. After 40 games played in the classroom, thoughtful Shyanna defeated confident Ben for the A Championship title. Ben went on to challenge Colten for the B Championship, but Colten confidently won!

Both winners received their own Mancala board for their success.

Our next game challenge will be with Cribbage after we all learn and become confident with the game rules.