*** grade sevens, please show your parents the website this week. There are some important things to consider such as the new literacy club ***
LITERACY CLUB
What is it? A new club after school that is designed to help you improve your literacy (reading, writing and overall communication skills)
When? There will be a meeting tomorrow after school. Please attend!
Who? Anyone that wants more practice with their literacy
Why? Because literacy is the backbone of all subjects. With out literacy all subjects are more challenging.
*** It would be great to see big turn out for this great new club!
BREAKFAST PROGRAM
What? A program designed to get students eating a healthy breakfast
Who? Anyone who is not getting enough to eat in the morning. Also open to people who want to help out each morning.
When/Where? Each morning in the Foods Room, at 830 -845 am.
POSTERS:
- Good job on your fort posters. If you haven't handed this assignment in, do so as soon as possible
- I will try and mark your Coureur de bois and poster assignments this week
BASKETBALL TRI-OUTS
A reminder to any boys that want to try out for the juniour basketball team. Try outs begin on Monday, December 3rd!
TA FUNDRAISING:
It is the time of year that Canadians like to take care of the needy. This year we will be raising money and items for a few families in need of financial help during the holidays. Bring money and gifts to TA class starting Monday so your class can raise the most money/gifts! I will notify you when we have information about what our adopted families require for a wonderful holiday.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
HAVE A FUN AND SAFE WEEKEND!
Hudsons Bay Company Poster: DUE MONDAY
1. You are working at a Hudsons Bay Company fort and you are in charge of making a poster that shows: the food available at that time, a menu of trading goods, and if room allows rules of the fort.
2. Don't worry to much about the food menu... it's not a restaurant menu, it is to let people at the Fort know what food is available
3. Make the poster historically accurate. This means having trade goods like fishing gear, hunting gear, and clothes... not ipods or laptops!
Have fun with this poster!
NOTE: Be sure to vote on the new poll
1. You are working at a Hudsons Bay Company fort and you are in charge of making a poster that shows: the food available at that time, a menu of trading goods, and if room allows rules of the fort.
2. Don't worry to much about the food menu... it's not a restaurant menu, it is to let people at the Fort know what food is available
3. Make the poster historically accurate. This means having trade goods like fishing gear, hunting gear, and clothes... not ipods or laptops!
Have fun with this poster!
NOTE: Be sure to vote on the new poll
Thursday, November 22, 2007
November 22
Handing in an assignment using a computer:
1. Be sure you have saved your file in a professional manner. Your file should look like this:
LASTNAME_FIRSTINTIAL_NAMEOFASSIGNMENT.DOC
For example: mangt_ceureurdebois
2. Open up two windows: Open up the window that has all your saved work. This is either "home director" or "mydocuments". You must open a second window that has the submissions folder. To do this click on the "start" menu and click on assignments, then "tamang", "visualcommunications".
3. Adjust each window so it is a manageable size. Drag the file you want to hand in the submissions folder. Try dragging the file into the folder again and a message will appear that says "file already exists". This means you have definitely handed in your file!
Guidelines for using word:
- use either times new roman or arial font. These are the two standard fonts for school, from high school to college. Do not use fancy colour, style, or effects. Unless the assignments is supposed to be artistic, in that case you can use as much style as you want!
-always read over your work, even if using an automatic spell checker
-you can "double space" your work, which puts spaces between each line.
-always be sure to put your name on an assignment. You can even put your name and a page number in the "header" and "footer", which is a little more advanced, but still easy to do once you know how
1. Be sure you have saved your file in a professional manner. Your file should look like this:
LASTNAME_FIRSTINTIAL_NAMEOFASSIGNMENT.DOC
For example: mangt_ceureurdebois
2. Open up two windows: Open up the window that has all your saved work. This is either "home director" or "mydocuments". You must open a second window that has the submissions folder. To do this click on the "start" menu and click on assignments, then "tamang", "visualcommunications".
3. Adjust each window so it is a manageable size. Drag the file you want to hand in the submissions folder. Try dragging the file into the folder again and a message will appear that says "file already exists". This means you have definitely handed in your file!
Guidelines for using word:
- use either times new roman or arial font. These are the two standard fonts for school, from high school to college. Do not use fancy colour, style, or effects. Unless the assignments is supposed to be artistic, in that case you can use as much style as you want!
-always read over your work, even if using an automatic spell checker
-you can "double space" your work, which puts spaces between each line.
-always be sure to put your name on an assignment. You can even put your name and a page number in the "header" and "footer", which is a little more advanced, but still easy to do once you know how
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 19th
Social Studies Exam:
Your exams have been handed back to you and we have gone over each answer. Please speak to me if you have any questions or concerns.
This weeks writing assignment:
1) Write a short story or first person journal entry at least 1 page written or typed. Your job is to pretend you are a Coureur de bois and you are leaving the french settlement of Qubec for the inerior of Canada, where you will establish new trading networks and explore the wilderness. Be as historically acurate as you can, but use your imagination!
2) Hand in a rough copy and a good copy. Be sure to use the writting process as discussed in class. Be sure to use properly structured paragraphs as we have learned to do in Langauge Arts
Standardized Spelling Test and Star Reading Results:
On Tuesday you wrote a 50 word standardized spelling test. Standardized means that the test is widely used and can be used to determine a students grade level for spelling.
Glenbow Trip:
A big "thank you" to our volunteers for making the trip possible. We had a great time and still learned a wealth of information! Thank you grade sevens, it was a great experience as your teacher!
Miscalaneous notes:
1. In our last poll, Europe won as the most popular destination. Be sure to check out the new poll which I will make this week
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Your exams have been handed back to you and we have gone over each answer. Please speak to me if you have any questions or concerns.
This weeks writing assignment:
1) Write a short story or first person journal entry at least 1 page written or typed. Your job is to pretend you are a Coureur de bois and you are leaving the french settlement of Qubec for the inerior of Canada, where you will establish new trading networks and explore the wilderness. Be as historically acurate as you can, but use your imagination!
2) Hand in a rough copy and a good copy. Be sure to use the writting process as discussed in class. Be sure to use properly structured paragraphs as we have learned to do in Langauge Arts
Standardized Spelling Test and Star Reading Results:
On Tuesday you wrote a 50 word standardized spelling test. Standardized means that the test is widely used and can be used to determine a students grade level for spelling.
Glenbow Trip:
A big "thank you" to our volunteers for making the trip possible. We had a great time and still learned a wealth of information! Thank you grade sevens, it was a great experience as your teacher!
Miscalaneous notes:
1. In our last poll, Europe won as the most popular destination. Be sure to check out the new poll which I will make this week
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