back to school after the long weekend May 20th

Hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend.

I realize that I did not update on Thursday last week! Most of our afternoon was spent at HSSS. It was called The Spice of Life installation.
We had our multi cultural celebration in the HSSS outdoor courtyard and the weather held for us to be able to share our feast outside too. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the pot luck. We had enough with our goodies and the HSSS cafeteria to feed nealy 130 people!!
We had a variety of international cuisine and it was fabulous.
The tablecloths looked amazing too blowing in the wind as they were displayed on the walls of the school around the courtyard. Thanks to Cynthia who did our Native blessing and thankfully the speeches were not too long or tedious. I was proud of the overall representation from our school.

Today, May 20th

Fortunately- unfortunately
Unfortunately it was announced today that, if there is no change at the bargaining table, teachers around the province will begin rotating job action as a last ditch effort to apply some pressure.
Fortunately the day we are on that job action (Monday May 26th) will not affect the Evans Lake camp which is one thing that we were concerened about.
Fortunately we are still at the bargaining table on Thursday of this week and maybe things can be sorted out before any rotating job action begins.
Unfortunately I personally won't be holding my breath that this will be a reality but it is nice to dream a little!

reminders

a camp agreement form was sent home this evening and needs to be signed by parents before it is returned hopefully later this week.

Our day


band class

language arts- mastering vocabulary and etymology activties
Units 2-4 studetns are working through the packets in sequiential order -some are further ahead than others! However, if I keep accurate check on who has done whjat and who needs to complete certain units then it is all good.

math 7 quiz for translations (slides)
Worked today on mirror image or refelctions - used the hand held mirrors for them to check the tranformations.
the general class managed to hold it together for 40 minmutes today before becoming a little squirrely - need to keep this in mind for planning over the next few weeks.

read to self- and some used the time to complete activites that were incomplete

computer lab time
Ancient Greece game on the BBC website called The Hero Game in which students set out on a quest to travel to three city states and gather hero points along the way, not unlike a very basic Pokemon.

Back in class we covered the Camp Guidelines for safety. Students are asked to go over them with their parents and get their agreement by signature. We also read out the cabin lists - a little bit of wiggle room is still available but we have 4 boys' cabins and four girl's cabins pretty much full. There are a few that are smaller but away from the main cabin area and in with the camp instructor cabins.

We packed up and headed out to the spider web for the last five minutes in the sunshine. For the most part, our Tuesday was prodcutive and calm.
have a nice evening,
Mrs. J.