Grade 7 - A Wonderful Place to Be

There he is - the Honourable George Abbott visiting our little old classroom.  All the feedback from his time at our school was positive!  Congratulations grade 7 for making us all proud by your respectful attitude and your excellent behaviour!  

 There sure is a lot going on at our school!  I've listed them in announcements, but they are worth highlighting here as well. I'm not going to give you the homework sheet until the end of this so that you will read everything.  Aren't I a "sneaky mom"? ( kids and halloween candy video joke - didn't you just love that boy!)

1.  New Fundraiser for the Learning Assistance Department:  What a great deal!  The florescent green sheets came out on Thursday.  Basically it is this - we are selling $20.00 Domino Pizza Cards that enable people to get $30 worth of pizza PLUS they get a code that enables them to get 2 for 1 pizzas for another 4 months.

These should be an easy sell, don't you think.  I'm going to buy some!  You need to order these by November 17th (this Thursday) and the cards will arrive to start selling on December 9th. 

2.  The Library (now called the Learning Commons) is also offering an opportunity for us to do some online shopping with Regal and help support our library at the same time.  I picked up a few very excellent items myself and thought I should add the link here so that more of you can take advantage of it.  All you have to do is clink on this link and it explains everything.  http://hcos.shopregal.ca/MySite/Story.aspx  

3.  Now for some announcements for our class specifically:  

The Grade 10 to 12's have challenged the 7 to 9's in an Operation Christmas Child Contest.  Who can fill the most shoeboxes????  This Friday afternoon has been reserved as a time to celebrate the joy of giving by filling boxes while listening to Christmas music and eating a few Christmas snacks.  We may even play the Grinch cartoon while we pack.  It's going to be fun, but we need to be prepared in order to get the job done properly.  I am asking that every family please watch the following video and discuss if it is possible for your family to contribute in some way.  Maybe you wish to fill a whole box as a family?  Maybe you want to go to the dollar store and buy 20 of one item such as erasers and then bring them to school and add them to 20 different boxes.  I suggest that when you have decided what to donate, please comment on this blog what the item is as I have done so that we don't duplicate too much.  Thanks so much!  This is now our school's 4th year participating in this excellent ministry.

4)  We REALLY need to take a trip to the Bottle Depot and I would like to do it before my husband comes home from a business trip and sees all those stinky, sticky bags of bottles in my garage.  Soooooo, that means that Monday after school is the best time since he arrives Tuesday!!  If there are 4 students or so who read this in time and are able to come, I can drive any or all of them home after we are done which would probably be around 4:30 to 5:00.  Also - if other families want to add their bottles to ours, feel free!  We collect all the school's bottles about every two weeks.  The money goes to our class budget which will be used for a big overnight field trip with the grade 8's at the end of the year.  

FINALLY the announcements are done and here is the HOMEWORK SHEET 

We had a very disrupted Thursday, so today we will need to do our Spelling and Vocabulary Test.

We also need to go through all your questions on Underground to Canada to check your understanding and to have discussion on some of the points.  This will require concentration and strict attention.  Can you do it?  

Once we have completed these two tasks, we will be able to go and get our computers.  After 10 minutes of Mavis Beacon, I will reward you with some free time if you did indeed earn it.