Early April, I will be attending a Conference of the Canadian Association for Second Language Teachers, and will be unavailable for the regularly scheduled Parent-Teacher interviews, April 7th and April 8th. If you wish to meet with me another time, please send an email mcmcguire@edu.pe.ca, or call the school 859-8710 and we can arrange a time in which to meet. Over the March Break, I intend to get a general idea of marks for the 3rd semester. If I have any causes for concern, I will be in touch either by email or by telephone. If you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch with me anytime.
9B English Social Studies - We have one last day in the library when students return from the March Break to complete the 12 assigned stations. If students have stations which are incomplete, they will be told to complete them by April 1st either before Homeroom begins in the morning, or either on their recess or lunch breaks. Students are responsible for stations that have not been completed in the 11 classes spent in the library.
9F French Immersion Social Studies - Yesterday, I introduced a teaching assignment on various sections of chapter 4, Roots of our Population. Students are divided into groups of 3-4 students and are preparing a lesson for their classmates on either the Aboriginal People of Atlantic Canada, Early European Settlement (Acadian, English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish), African-Canadian Communities and finally immigrants from the 1900s to present day in Atlantic Canada. Students will be given two more classes to prepare their lessons, before presenting it in the last days of March.
9F French Immersion Language Arts - Student wrote a dictation today; students that were absent will write it next Monday.
We have read together the first four chapters of the novel, "La Fille Parfaite". Chapter summaries and notes on the main characters have been assigned for various chapters. A journal assignment related the the themes and ideas from the novel was introduced and assigned today. Good copies for this journal assignment is Tuesday, March 29th. We are also learning about improvisation games and have tried a few scenarios. I hope to dedicate some more time for this activity which is great practice for using French vocabulary.
We are continuing to work with Mrs. Jeffery's grade 7 Enhanced French class on their reading, writing and comprehension skills.
8F French Immersion Social Studies - Thanks to all students for participating in last Tuesday's Heritage Fair. The topic choices were all very interesting and students did well presenting their projects to our two francophone judges. Congratulations to our 3 winning projects and our one Honourable Mention. Well done everyone! Our number one placement will be invited to go to the Provincial Heritage Fair mid-May.
We have jumped back into our study of the Renaissance in Italy beginning in the 1300s. We have discussed the defintion of "Humanism" and student will have an assignment on a well-know humanist from the Renaissance period upon their return to school the last week of March.
7F-8F French Immersion Language Arts - We have read together the first six chapters of the novel, "La Fille Parfaite". Chapter summaries and notes on the main characters have been assigned for various chapters. A journal assignment related the the themes and ideas from the novel was introduced this past week. Good copies for this journal assignment are due Tuesday, March 29th.
We are also learning about improvisation games and have tried a few scenarios. I hope to dedicate some more time for this activity which is great practice for using French vocabulary.
We are continuing to work with Mrs. Jeffery's grade 7 Enhanced French class on their reading, writing and comprehension skills.
