Wednesday, October 30

Messages and Reminders:
Tomorrow is Halloween, which we will be celebrating at BHS with black and orange day. We have library tomorrow. The pillars of care assembly is tomorrow at 12:30pm. There is no school on Friday.  We have moved the poetry anthology due date to Friday, November 8. Swimming forms and payment are due November 8 and theatre forms and payment are due November 22. Please remember to check Mr. Mueller and Mr. Shackelton's blogs for information on our science and social studies classes - there have been projects due this week in both subjects and many students have not handed them in.

Morning recap:
This morning after music, we did a reading assessment. Since we have been learning about trees and forests in science, all grade six students received a passage about trees and then answered a series of questions. It was read aloud once to everyone and then students had time to reread it as many times as they wanted. The questions were designed to see how deeply students were comprehending what they had read. We will continue this type of reading assessment throughout the year, with the goal to develop strategies to help deepen our reading comprehension. During language arts, we continued working on our poetry anthologies. In math, we completed a 3 question division mini quiz, worked on our long division booklets, and then did Mathletics on the laptops. We ended the morning at our Wednesday dance class in gym with all the grade sixes.

Upcoming important dates:

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)

Thursday, October 31 - pillars of care assembly - 12:30pm
Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day
Friday, November 8 - poetry anthology project due
Friday, November 8 - swimming forms and payment due
November 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 - swimming lessons
Friday, November 22 - theatre forms and payment due
Tuesday, November 26 - theatre field trip