La classe de Mme Nielsen

 Hi folks,  Just thought I'd let you know what we do each week, so you know where to focus your attention at home in the evenings and want to do school-y stuff. Mondays  Spiralundi. This is a quick 5 question math review quiz-like deal that checks on the retention of all concepts since the beginning of the year. We did our first one this week, and it looked a lot like last week's math quiz because, well, that's all we'd done so far.  Practice for the math quiz. Is exactly what it sounds like. I give them a practice quiz, we correct it together, and they keep it so they know a) what the quiz is going to look like, format-wise, and b) so they know where to focus their last-minute studying. Gym. Wear/bring appropriate attire. Skirts are not ideal on this day. Tuesdays Math quiz. Pro-tip, it's going to look a LOT like the practice quiz. Usually, the questions are the same, just with different numbers being used. I'm not looking to trick anyone, and it's way more...

For those of you who are curious what we do all week...  Mondays: gym at 10:30 small group learning/support with Mme Kaké and also with Mme Theresa weekly French verbs and vocab are given (quiz Friday) weekly "belle phrase" subject and verb are given (due Friday) French reading comprehension assigned (due Friday) ** Note, from now until winter break we will be reading La guerre des tuques instead of having reading comprehensions we do the heavy lifting of our math learning (quiz on Wednesday) Tuesdays: gym at 12:45 small group learning/support with Mme Mélanie and also with Mme Theresa the balance of our math learning for the quiz Wednesday art Wednesdays: aboriginal Education at 9:45 music at 10:30 small group learning/support with Mme Theresa (twice) math quiz Thursdays: EASE with Sandy small group learning/support with Mme Kaké and also with Mme Roxanne dictée des nombres spelling test music at 13:35 Fridays: gym every other Friday(ish) at 8:45 library at 10:05 French qui...

Looks like we're getting into the swing of things. Here's an image of this week's suggested pacing, with a link to the document itself so you can use the links. Enjoy!

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...