September 10

The Week of September 11

Hello everyone! Here is my first weekly announcement blog post for this year.

In grade 7, we will be focussing on organizing our materials, practising writing and doing some reading comprehension. Our support teachers, Ms Austin and Ms Davies and I will be running reading tests to assess the students’ reading levels. This will help us in identifying needs and in setting up guided reading groups.

Please ensure that your child has a combination lock by this Friday. It is a really good idea to bring a water bottle to school and enough healthy food for the two nutrition breaks. If you have any questions, please contact me by e-mail – heather.swail@ocdsb.ca

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Hello dear, how was your first week of school?

 

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September 8

Hello R7A Families!

We all got through the first week of school, for some their first week in a Canadian school. A special hello to our new families. Your children showed perseverance and courage.
We accomplished a great deal: organizing lockers; learning combinations and how not to put locks on backwards; signing into Google Docs; finding classrooms; remembering agendas; bringing in forms quickly; working on initial projects; setting personal goals and being kind to each other.
If you have not already, please return all forms. More will be coming your way, including a letter, next week, outlining supplies and school fees.
In Language Arts next week, we will be working on our writing and the writing process. We have started a read-aloud, “The Code” by Mawi Asgedom, and we will have a period of independent reading. In Visual Arts, we will creating different patterns for bulletin board borders – in groups. Should be fun! Geography will start the first week of October.
Please ensure your children have a combination lock by next week. Please!
I look forward to meeting you soon, I will start meeting with certain families next week.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Ms Swail
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