Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Countless hours were spent preparing the IEPs.  They were scheduled to be sent home today and I had them prepared, in the envelopes, on my filing cabinet. Unfortunately, I missed catching the buses, which is the major form of transportation home for the members of the class.  I apologize for this and will send them home tomorrow.

The students in the Senior division had the opportunity to take part in the Grade 7 and 8 student council.  One student was interested in running for a leadership position, but will be away on the day of the speeches.  Instead, we decided to have an election of the class representatives.  Here are some photos of the three candidates.  Originally there were 7 candidates, but only 3 ended up giving statements about why they would be the best representative for the role of representative for the Student Council.

 The winner was George.  He is the student at the top of the photo selection.

We spent a fair bit of time walking through the last portion of review for our unit on Fractions.  There is much more that we can do, but it is now necessary to move forward into another strand of the Math program.  I will do my best to keep the ideas connected so the students can understand the connections among the strands.

I have been working on reviewing the routines and expectations of the class.  Even though we are moving close to entering the 3rd month of the school year (wow!), some students are still forgetting to the daily items they need for the room.  Here is a poster that we have up on the front door of the classroom:

I have also been utilizing the Track Chart as a way of having the students keep track of what they need to hand in.  The photo of this is old, and has very little writing on it, but it is slowly filling up as the work levels increase.

Judging from the Art work from last week (the collage which I posted) and from some homework which was completed by 16/17 students, the class members are capable of writing complete thoughts in Simple Sentences.  I am going to do some reflecting to see how to extend this skill in a creative and challenging way for the class.

HOMEWORK:  Complete a Study Sheet for Math based on the chart Mr. Proudfoot made in Math.  It should have 2 examples of each type of fraction question we have worked on in class.  Complete p. 16 # 8+9 for a review in Math.  This will be taken up.