I am taking a personal day so that I can get ready for report cards which are coming out next week. I will have your Homework Sheet ready for tomorrow.
I expect that you will be on your BEST behaviour for Mrs. Millard. She is not only a teacher-on-call at our school, but she is Brenda's Mom! This means that you will be extra respectful! I am going to ask her to please make a note of anyone who is not being quiet when asked or who is not obeying her when she asks him/her to do something. You are a class that has a reputation for being incredibly awesome!!! Prove it!!!
Kyenna should do attendance now if she hasn't already.
By the way, Mrs. Millard, Brenda is the Executive Assistant and can help you with anything you may need during the day. Robson is the Banker. Jesse is the Custodial Service Person who will empty the garbage at the end of the day. Corey is the Bounty Hunter in case you are ever missing someone.
If you noticed on the board, you should be extremely pleased with your Operation Christmas Child Box efforts. I thought we would have 40 boxes. I was wrong. If someone can finish off those boxes under this screen, we will have 50 boxes!!! The entire Secondary only did 23 boxes. You more than doubled their efforts. Let's not be bragging about this though. This year we didn't really have a competition with them - it was more a shared activity. This makes our total 73, which is a little sad because last year we were able to do 132. This means that next year, when you are in grade 8, you are going to make sure you remember to do boxes!!
Okay, for devotions this morning, I would like you to watch the following youtube video. I was looking for another touching real life story and believe it or not I found one that connects to the school where my husband took his Bible Training. It is a very beautiful story. Just think of how appreciative those kids who get our boxes are going to be!! Maybe we will actually hear back from one of them. You never know.
After this video, I would like some of you to volunteer to pray a blessing over all the boxes.
Then I would like you to let Mr. M take some pictures of you guys with your boxes. If you feel like it, you could take your boxes over to the red bridge and let Mr. M get some cool shots over there. If you or he don't feel like doing that, a class shot or 2 would be just as nice. Then, could Mr. M please download the picture onto his computer and send it to the HCS office so they can put it in the December newsletter? (They need it this morning. Sorry, Mr. M, but today is the newsletter deadline. I already sent an announcement in about how many we made and how terrific the grade 7's are!) If you decide to take the pics at Ben Lee, then that will be your walk time. If you decide to stay inside for the pictures, then you can go on a walk after.
When you get back from either your walk or your red bridge pic time, please write a letter to the child who will receive one of our boxes. You can look at mine as an example. Yours will be hand written however. Some of you will need to do more than one, please. (Don't go get your computers until recess time, okay.) I spent 3 hours on Sunday afternoon going through all the boxes and adding some soap, wash clothes and note pads and making sure that every box had enough stuff and the right stuff in them. PLEASE don't go messing them up!! PLEASE just write a letter and nicely lay it on top of the stuff in the box, replace the elastics and put it back in the pile. I put all the boxes with particular students' names on them at the very top so they could get theirs easily. We all worked together on these boxes. It doesn't really matter what box you put your letter in, okay!!!! Thanks!!! I will make sure they get put together with the Secondary's boxes tomorrow when I come back. If some end up without letters, that's okay. No big deal. It's just a nice, extra thing to do that's fun to personalize them.
I seriously think you are going to be at about recess time by now. You can go get your computers at the beginning or ending of recess depending on what Mrs. Millard decides. She may make this decision based on how well you have behaved for this first part of the morning.
After recess, you are going to write your Science Test, so you may wish to use recess time to get a little cramming in. I have left some hard copies of the review sheet on my desk in case you don't have yours.
Science Test 10:30 - 11:00 Make sure that barriers are up between students so that no one can see another student's paper. (When Miss Liv comes in at 12:50, she can mark these tests.) When students finish the test, they may start up their computers and do Mavis Beacon until everyone is done. (Any increases in a student's Words Per Minute can be recorded in my binder as long as someone else (student or teacher) verifies the accuracy of the test.)
At about 11:00ish, students should start playing these computer games on Ancient Egypt. They can play these until they feel like reading Chapter 3 in their Social Studies Textbook, History of the World which is stored in the back cupboard. They can then read the chapter and answer the questions in a file document in their folders entitled "Chapter 3 Ancient Egypt". They can work on this until lunch time. This is due on Friday.
After lunch, students will free read for 20 minutes. (Use my timer) They can read Underground to Canada or their Social Textbook if they don't have a free reading book.
Then they will have 10 minutes of journal time. (Use the timer) You may allow some students to share what they have written after the journal time. Let the students pick 3 topics to put on the board.
After this, they have some choices for the rest of the afternoon from the following list of activities. Recess will interrupt you at some point.
Choices:
*Work on your Underground to Canada final project
*Finish your Operation Christmas Child letter
*Keep working on your Chapter 3 Social Questions
*Play more games about Egypt. Egypt. Egypt. ONLY games about Ancient Egypt!!!
*Keep writing on what you started in journal
* Practice the Hammurabi Reader's Theatre for performance on Friday
Shut down computers at 2:50 and CLEAN UP!! (Nothing left on the floors, chairs up. Hockey equipment away etc.)
Mr. M can supervise the computers going back to Mr. Porteous' room at about 2:57.
Make sure you THANK Mrs. Millard for coming in today!!!
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