La classe de Mme Nielsen

Monday's  Science project. To be done at home due to space constraints. The students received this information in French, but I've translated it in English for parents. Students are allowed to work alone, in pairs or in trios only. Students have been encouraged to finish their filming before next week so that they have time to edit their presentations. What is the problem? Catch the Christmas Elf with a Rube Goldberg Machine made at home, with items typically found at home or at school. You may use only one finger only one time for only one second to start your machine. What are the important criteria? All the simple machines we studied must be incorporated in the machine: Lever Incline plane Wheel and axis Screw and wedge Pulley There are bonus points for using all three classes of lever. What are the possible solutions? Brainstorm materials that can be used for each of the simple machines. List different ways you can catch the Elf. Think a

Here is a link to Canada's Student Vote results:  https://studentvote.ca/results/canada2019/ You can follow links to see how BC's students voted, Nanaimo's students, and even Quarterway's students... VERY interesting stuff.

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Just a reminder that our Craft Fair will be Saturday, November 30th. Every year, our PAC puts together a gift basket raffle, and asks all families to please donate to the baskets. Although you may donate to any of the themed baskets, each division has been assigned to focus their donations on a particular basket. Our basket this year is the ARTS AND CRAFTS BASKET. (I can't imagine how I ended up with that one... ;) ) Donations are due by November 1st. Here are some ideas for items to donate: Colouring books (child or adult) Sketch books Crayons, pencil crayons, markers Paints and brushes How-to books (crochet, draw, knit, etc.) Gift certificate to an art class Michael's gift card Crafting supplies (pipe cleaners, felt, pompoms, etc.) You can also donate to the other baskets if you prefer: Christmas basket Kitchen basket Family/entertainment basket Outdoors basket Relaxation basket  You may also choose to get together with some other families to donat

We knew them growing up as "parent-teacher interviews." I don't know about you, but they were always this big mystery to me. But the times, they are a-changin'. Please have your child available to join us for your conference. I think it is important that our meetings revolve around your child. They may have insight that neither of us do, and I know it's way easier for us to communicate about your child if we are hearing the exact same story. I may ask your child to step out for the final few minutes of a conference if there are questions or comments that may be sensitive for children. Of course, you may do the same. In the event that there is more to discuss, we can arrange to have another meeting. 15 minutes can go very quickly, and we don't always have the time to get to the meat of the issue. The success of your child (who is quickly starting to look like a grown-up!) depends heavily on communication. If the times I have available are not conven

Dear Parents, Grade 6/7 parents have been asking, "Will there be band this year?" Short answer, "No, there will not be band this year."   ...which leads to the question of "Why not???" The main reason we are not having band is because our school has grown so much over the last 6 years, adding 4 divisions, that the music program has been cut back time wise for all students. There is one music room and one music teacher. I was full-time 6 years ago when we had 4 less divisions! So my music time is much less with all students. The bright side of this is that students are now receiving more library time with the fabulous Mme. Sullivan. When I was able to teach band successfully around 6 years ago, we did not have split classes and I could teach just the grade 6's in one class and just the grade 7's in another. So it was possible to have a beginner band year, and then grow on that in the second year of the program and actu

Sports, sports, and more... wait, nope, just 2 sports. Football Bantam Girls (including grade 6) (Mme Lindsey) Practice after school Tuesdays Games after school Thursdays Peewee Boys (including grade 5) (Mme Mark) Games after school Tuesdays Practice after school Wednesdays Cross Country Peewee/Bantam practice (and Tyke make-up) Wednesday/Friday 2:45-3:45 (M. Matte) Tyke practice (and PW/B make-up) Tuesday/Thursday 2:45-3:45 (Mme Noelle)

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Yesterday, during English class, the kids were given these:   And together, in preparation for today's quiz, we produced this: Please go over your child's quiz with them, sign it, and return it to school Tuesday. Here is the answer key:

Students are doing a spell-a-thon to raise money for their year-end trip to Wild Play. They are asked to collect sponsorships from friends and family, either as a one-time donation (due April 24th) or on a per-word basis (which will be collected after the dictée, April 26th). Here is the dictée they are to study: Epelle-o-thon Puisque les élèves de la septième année passent deux nuits au camp Qwanoes au mois de juin, les étudiants de la sixième veulent sortir en excursion, eux aussi. Nos quatre classes monteront dans les arbres à WildPlay pour tester notre courage et pour s’amuser ensemble, seulement nous, pour la première fois.

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I've placed an order, and normally I only submit every other month, but if there are parents who are interested in placing an order online, I'll submit another order at the beginning of February (as a January extension...) There is a coupon code: Share Code:  CLIFFORD  with parents and they can pick a FREE book when they spend $30 or more online. Here's the link to Scholastic:  https://canadaclubs.scholastic.ca/en/home Happy reading!

A few things for you to look at with your children this weekend: 1. Today's quiz 2. The (parent-friendly) instructions for the 3D projects due February 11th.