Monday, December 11, 2017

HOUSEKEEPING:

1. MUSKOKA TRIP: 1st payment and registration form due December 20.

2. WONDER: Tonight is the last night to pay cash online.  If you miss this deadline, you can still send a cheque payable to me...um...DDPS.  We are going this Friday!

3.  COURSE SELECTION:  Parents and Guardians: don't forget to sit down with your child and do a "'practice" course selection through Career Cruising.  Do not put this off!
 
KUDOS TO:    Mobin, Jina, Ella, and Shauna: these four students helped create videos for the students in Mme Le Moine's class.  Their hard work, perseverance, and creativity are very much appreciated.


HOMEWORK:

ENGLISH:


1.  NOREDINK: New task (Assignment #3) is due Wednesday, December 13th.  It's all about sentence fragments.  Some students have already finished the homework! 


2. Continue submitting ideas to the "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace" on google docs





3  NOVEL STUDY: Today is the final week.  After today your child should have their 4 vocabulary words, 1 8-box activity done, and 1 "Freedom vs. Security" entry completed.
 


4. The following kids have not handed in their Career Posters (they are late): R.A., L.B.. 




MATH:



1. UNIT TEST: The geometry unit test will be on Thursday.  I gave the grade 7s my daughter's grade 7 test to use as a study guide (teachers steal everything).  The grade 8s and I sat down and did some anticipation of what could be on the test.


2. Grade 7s are working on a tessellation project IN CLASS.  If you see them doing it at home, take it away and burn it. 


FRENCH:


1. Book talk finally begin tomorrow!


2.


HISTORY:
1.   Final choo-choo train activity next class.




ART:




SCIENCE: 


1.


2. Grade 8 test also came home.  Please look at it with your child. 


MUSIC: 

1.


DRAMA: 

1.


HEALTH: 

1. Grade 8: make a list of 10 reduced stress-reducers


2. Grade 7: Paragraph about reflection and diet.