La Classe de Mme Potyka

Blogs – The prompt for blog #8 is posted in our Google Class. Blog #9 is on a Core Competency of the student’s choice. Only two blogs this week, both due Friday.

Lit Circles – Because of the Pro-D our schedule has been bumped by a day. This means that tomorrow’s meetings will be with Underground to Canada and Leviathan.

Dictée – corrections due tomorrow

Points of Interest

• Spring Concert 1:30 Thursday
• Mother’s Day forms due Thursday
• Food Drive ends Thursday
• Class (groups/teams/staff) photos Friday
• Division 2 and 4 Free2Be Friday
• Celebration of Learning Monday, April 30
• All-day Track Meet at Swangard Thursday, May 3
• Star Wars Day Friday, May 4
• Hot Lunch Friday, May 4
• Sperling Sprint Friday, May 4

If your child is attending Burnaby North in September please be aware that the French Assessment has been moved to Wednesday, April 25th at 3:45. The assessment is schedule to take approximately 90 minutes.

 

Lit Circle Schedule

Each student must meet once a week.  Each student must meet at least one time for any books read.  Students must come prepared with 4 quotes they found in their reading for that week: 1 thing they liked, 1 thing they didn’t like, 1 thing they questioned or were confused about, 1 thing they were surprised or excited about.

• Monday – Underground to Canada and Leviathan
• Tuesday – The Dark Tower and Three Cups of Tea
• Wednesday – Fatty Legs and Northern Exposures
• Thursday – Whispers from the Ghettos and We All Fall Down
• Friday – No meetings though in the event of Pro-D or holidays the schedule will shift by one day.

Class Work:

Blog – Posts #5, 6, and 7 due Friday

• #5 – See prompts in Google Class
• #6 – Core compentency #1
• #7 – Student choice

Dictee #21

• Activities #1 – 3 due tomorrow
• Pre-test #1 tomorrow

Points of Interest

• Tennis April 3 – 20
• Grade 6/7 Track at Swangard tomorrow
• Food Drive starts tomorrow
• French Young Actors Friday
• Division 2 and 4 Free2Be Friday
• Hot Lunch Stir Fry Friday
• Pro-D Day (No school for students) Monday, April 23
• Spring Concert 1:30 Thursday, April 26
• Food Drive ends Thursday, April 26
• Division 2 and 4 Free2Be Friday, April 27

 

Blog

The school district tech team is putting together Subscriber Log-ins for parents to be able to follow along their child’s blog.  They will be using the emails you provided for me already so that you will receive automatic updates each time your child blogs about their learning. 

Class Work:

Dictee 18 – signed for tomorrow

English – Blog post #4 (Student choice) due Friday

SPRK – Blog post #3 – Using Google Drive photos and prompts – due Friday

Reading – Parent signature for Lecture Independant due tomorrow

Points of Interest

• Tennis April 3 – 20
• Division 2 and 4 Free2Be Friday
• French Young Actors Friday
• Grade 6/7 Track at Swangard Tuesday, April 17th
• Food Drive starts Tuesday, April 17th
• Shop Funds forms due Tuesday, April 17th
• French Young Actors Friday, April 20th
• Division 2 and 4 Free2Be Friday, April 20th
• Hot Lunch Stir Fry Friday, April 20th

It took some doing but we finally got our wood and nails delivered today. Mr. Potyka kindly helped me cut down our boards so we are raring to build on Monday! I think we’re good for hammers. But a couple extra saws and pliers could be beneficial. Thank you so much for your support in this project as we navigate these new waters.

So I tried to pick up the plywood twice today, turns out even a massive mini van is too small to fit the 4×8 pieces . Any chance we know of someone with a pickup truck who can help us out? I’m also looking at delivery options but thought I would ask here too.

As we enter into Term 3 students have started figuring out how to use their new blogs.  We have been playing with the technical side as well as discussing what makes a good blog (what form and style should be used). Most importantly we have been discussing why we are blogging and how we are using it as a form to track our individual learning and communicate that learning with myself and parents. Hopefully parents will enjoy watching the students’ experiences.

Students will be expected to blog two or three times a week; always due by Friday.  Students will more often receive prompts from me, tying their learning back to the expected competencies, but I also hope they will develop an ability to take charge of their own learning process and use this tool to independently analyze their own experiences.

Students are encouraged to use photo evidence but are reminded that any photos have to be resized so that they are no more than 640 x 480 pixels in size.  This can be done by uploading and editing images in “Media” before inserting them their blog.  Students may also insert videos, but again they must be compressed.

Happy blogging!

Class Work

Math – Pre-test Monday. Quiz Tuesday.

Art –  Photo submissions and write-ups were due today.  Please email photos of “drops” to Mme Potyka as soon as possible.

• https://spreadthecanvas.wordpress.com/

Concours AO

• 7s – Congratulations to 18 and 19 who will represent Sperling at District
• 6s – Congratulations to 2 who will represent Sperling at District

Reading

• March Independent Novel Study due Friday!

Band

• Practice all of :                                                                                                                              O Canada|Midnight Mission|Ayre + Dance|Celtic Air + Dance -> up to mesure #36|Ranting + Roaring -> up to mesure #39

Points of Interest

• Tennis forms due Wednesday
• Grade 7s memory forms due Friday
• Scholastic due Friday
• Grade 7 Yearbook forms due Friday
• Yearbook art due Friday
• Tennis April 3 – 20
• Grade 6/7 Track at Swangard Thursday, April 5th
• Cold lunch (Cobs) Friday, April 6th
• Reports go home Friday, April 6th
• Alpha Math Honours assessment exam Tuesday, April 10th, 4PM, in the Alpha Library