My Dear Students and Families,

Miss you all very much! I do love talking with you all!! I hope you and your families are all well and have been enjoying a much needed break in light of current events in our world today.  Please remember to be critical thinkers about what you read, see, and hear!! Just like we have talked about in Socials Studies class. 

My family and I are well and have been exploring our neighborhood and yard during this past spring break.  I have been resting, walking, gardening, cleaning and organizing our house.  I have remembered our class meetings and all the suggestions we have talked about for self-care.  My favorites this spring break have been getting back to walking in nature, reading, playing with our cats, card games (kings in the corner) and cooking with my kids as well as watching a few movies and shows.  (I finished the Mandalorian series- loved it!!) I hope you all have been taking care of yourselves.  Please remember that Self-Care is important during these times.  

I will be contacting division 1 families by phone over the next couple of days to check in and see what technology you have available to help me plan some lessons in literacy and numeracy.  So we will all ease into this at everyone’s accessibility level and hopeful begin continue our learning journey together with some interesting new topics. I believe our office 365 teams will be our classes main form of communications as they are already set up. 

While I contact our class by phone over the next few days to check in, please visit the links below from Ms. Araujo, and  Ms. Fierro.  I also have a link for grade 7 band from Mr D.

Thank you for your patience everyone as we work together through these unprecedented history making times!! Be patient! 

Best wishes!

Ms. Borgenstrom

Ms. B’s Spring Break pictures!

Blogs to check out!!

http://blogs.sd41.bc.ca/southslope-library/

http://sd41blogs.ca/jukicht/

http://sd41blogs.ca/denroches/

For Grade 7 BAND STUDENTS of DIV 1&2 

Hello,

This is an email from Mr. D, your band teacher. We are going to use the SmartMusic software for the class MrDsBands.

In order to use the software, you need to create a SmartMusic account and join the class using this code: KAVNX-D3FUW.

1. Open a Chrome browser and visit: https://admin.smartmusic.com/join
2. When prompted for a class code, please enter:

KAVNX-D3FUW

Thank you, and I look forward to helping you improve your practice with SmartMusic!

Steve Denroche

Hi everyone, hope your all well in this interesting time and enjoying your family. Please refer to our school and district websites for information. Please check back to my website and I will give more information for my classes as I know more.
Best wishes everyone,
Ms. D Borgenstrom
READ READ READ!!!!

Its been a very busy start up this year and we are now heading into reporting season. I will be doing 3-way conferences in next week, please make sure you send in a time so I can book you in. Students have been sent home with a letter from me regarding meetings next week.
Current assignments student in Division 1 are working on:
– math unit 1 test this week
– Socials Studies Power paragraph – Voting
– Scary stories – setting the scene
-Blogfolios are almost set up hopefully by next week
– PE. Volleyball
– Reading workshop – Connections (students need a new novel to create a book talk)
– French – numbers 1-100, letters of the alphabet, colors, days of the week and months of the year. (quizzes coming soon.)
Please remind your tweens that it is important for them to take 5 minutes at the end of the day to write in their planners – many seem to be running out with out doing this.
I am very proud of this leadership (Div.1&2) group this year for their roles in our Halloween adventures for the school.

SELL! SELL! SELL!  We are raising money for Class Activities near the end of the year.  Poinsettia’s come in white, red and pink for $13.00 each there is a Wreath for $30:00 and Beautiful Pot for $30.00.  Orders are due back this Friday!

Students:
1. Literature circle – onto the 3rd book (How do the characters demonstrated their character traits.)

2. Identity Speech – 3-objects check the critieria on the board
3. French learn the vocabualry number quizz next week, and skit spripts are due next Thursday
math – make sure you are keepin up with daily lessons

5. I A K Stories – pracitice reading

4. Its Drop Everything and Read Day celebration on Monday – where your pajamas and be prepared by having a choice book to read.

Welcome Back Everyone!

Its has been a great week getting to know my new class and the parents during our intakes! We are off to a great start and are beginning our inquiry question:   Identity: “How does understanding who you are help you understand the world around you and your peers?” We will begin a literature circle unit next week that will be stories about identity.  Students are asked to discuss with parents how they were given their name. 

Current Homework:

Assignments 

1.Draw a self portrait  of yourself on the blank paper handed out in class. It can be a sketch, do the best you can and put it in your Reading Workshop Doutang.

2. Write a draft descriptive paragraph  that tells who you are and where you live.  Give details about your personality traits, remember the list we had in class.  What makes you unique and how do you feel about your uniqueness? (A paragraph is 5-7 sentences min,) Remember the story you read in class (Peacocks and Bandaids)

3. I.A.K. Writing package the first two pages are due Monday.  If you want to work on writing your story, please feel free to get started. 

4. Work on memorizing you times tables (1-4)

5. Up coming speech you will need 3 small objects that describe a bit about who you are.  I will have a bag for you to put them in next week that you will decorate.

Thank you 

Ms.B

Have a great summer everyone!  Best wishes to grade 7’s who are moving on to grade 8 in September!.  If you are returning to South Slope, here is a copy of the intermediate supply list, check with your assigned teacher in the fall and see what specific supplies  will be needed for their class.  Have a fun-filled summer!

D.Borgenstrom

Intermediate supply list – 2017-18

Congratulation to Anisa and Coralyn who will represent our school at the district semi finals. Congratulations to our grade 6 participants who will attend with our grade 7 representatives to support and learn for next year. I am proud of how hard our grade 6/7 students worked this year on their speech assignments and how they spent time asking questions and rewiriting drafts to share in class. Congratulations and I look forward to see how our students conitnue to grow in the area of speaking and presenting their thoughts and ideas.

Welcome Back everyone! I am looking forward to the school year! To get the school year off on the right track Mr. Hunter and I have collaborated on creating Division 1’s first assignment this year to get us started on our 2017-18 learning journey!

First Collaborative Assignment:
Computer Tips from the Pros
Division 1 we will be creating a tips from the pros bulletin board that explains the programs and apps we will be using in our yearlong portfolio project about learning, but first we need to make sure everyone in our class understands what we will be using, this will help us to teach other classes this year. You will be working in partners to research and create a teaching presentation, with poster and icon to show how your topic works.
Topic Choices:
• Google Docs
• Google Drive
• Google slides
• Google Forms
• Snipping tools & Picture editor
• Hyperlinks
• Video editor
• Utube
• Digital citizenship
Criteria:
1. ART- You will need to recreate the icon on 4 x 51/2 Card stock paper using pencil crayons, marker, rulers.                                                                    /4
2. Art / Writing – a poster on 81/5 x 11 landscape white paper with your researched information so anyone reading will understand what you are explaining, (Use these questions to create your poster – what is it? What is it used for? Why is important?) this poster should be visually appealing and easy to understand and read from our class bulletin board.                                                                                   /4
3. Oral Presentation to the class – you will teach our class about this topic in a 3-5 minute oral presentation that will include a demonstration of how to use it. Remember to speak in a presentation voice so that your information flows.          /4

Hi Class,

Hope your all doing well this morning!  Just wanted to say how much I liked the talent show and I am pleased with the number of people who stepped up to help out for set up, clean up and your participation during the show.  Thank -you!

Friday lab time Priority is:

#1 Please print good copies of you poems to the photocopier in the office, I am still missing a few and would like to work on the covers today and your poetry self-evaluation later in class. Please make sure you have and About The Author Page and a Title Page.

#2 Check last weeks blog post for your two blog post assignments on Roy Henry Vickers and Scratch.

#3 Using our school library on-line resources find out 5 pieces of information about Ancient Greece to help increase your background knowledge on this Ancient Culture.  You will then write your information on long strips of paper provided by your teacher for further discussion in class.

PLEASE USE YOUR TIME WISELY!