January 30th to February 3rd

Good morning Grade 7's!!

It's going to be a great day and an interesting week.  There is much to accomplish and much to look forward to. We're starting our Secondary Electives this week, starting tomorrow.  If you didn't hear which elective you were placed in, please check with me.  If you have a serious problem with the class you are in, please have your parents contact Mr. Kelly.

First of all, let's start out with the agenda for today:

Devotions:  Who completed the challenge of reading a Psalm a day for a whole week?  2 credits for each day you did it and 20 credits to those who can honestly say they did it every day.  Let's wrap up that challenge by watching this video on a beautiful psalm set to music.  It is from Psalm 51 - the Psalm where David responds to the prophet Nathan's confrontation of David's sin in sleeping with Bathsheba.  This is part of David's prayer of repentance. 

I've always felt like this song was truly anointed by the Holy Spirit.  Can you sense that too?  The songwriter and singer of this song is a very inspirational Christian artist.  His name is Keith Green.  Here is a little mini-biography on his life: Keith Green Biography  If your parents have been Christians for a very long time, they have probably heard of this incredibly Spirit filled Christian artist.  Ask them.

Here is the HOMEWORK SHEET FOR JANUARY 30TH TO FEB. 3

Today these are the things we need to do:

*Please finish off your Science Lab and print it and hand it in.
*I'm going to be handing back an old assignment - Chapter Questions on Chapter 3 in Social Studies.  Some of you didn't actually do a very good job on this.  I'm giving you an awesome deal.  It is this:  Correct your incorrect answers and/or finish the incomplete questions and then have someone in the class who got an A on it, check it over.  Then both of you come to me and tell me and I will raise your mark 20%.  What a deal, hey!
*At 1:00 p.m today we are going to watch a Drama entitled, "Escape" that is brought to us by Saltmine Productions which is a company that Emily and Jessica's Dad was associated with in the UK.  The subject is internet safety.  It's going to very interesting I'm sure.
*Mr. Hrzic is coming to finish off helping us prepare for the FSA's.
*We DO get computers today so we can look forward to some Mavis Beacon and some Journal writing as well.
*One thing we are going to do after the "Escape" presentation is a Reading Comprehension FSA Practice test.  Here is the link: FTREAD7  Please scroll down in the School District Box and select Central Okanagan (23)
I will give you your PEN (personal education number) on a slip of paper.  This is a timed test.  You have 60 minutes to complete it.  When you are finished, call me over to your desk before you hit submit.  Then you can have free time until lunch. 

The LORD bless you and keep you;
The LORD make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.

January 23rd to January 27th

Congratulations to our Badminton Tournament Winners:
Singles Division - Corey Hendricks!!  Doubles Division - Talei Cama Moroka and Michaelah Weekes!!

Our next P.E. unit is one of my favourites:  GYMNASTICS  This unit will culminate in a field trip to the Okanagan Gymnastics Club.  

This morning we are going to watch a very wonderful short video.  I am including the link here so students can share it with their families.  It is called, "Eetaow" and is the story of a tribal village's response to the gospel.


We also have the pleasure and honour of having Mr. Cox come into our classroom this morning and lead us in a writing exercise that will help prepare us for the FSA tests coming up. 

It's going to be a GREAT week!!  Here is the homework sheet for the week. 

Here is the study sheet for Social Studies 

Last, but not least, some exciting news from our Learning Commons for a great reading competition for amazing prizes:  READATHON

January 16th to January 20th

Homework Sheet for January 16th to January 20th

Yay, we DO get computers today.  More info to follow. 

Yay for Computer Time!

Good morning everyone!

Here is the plan today.

1.  Announcements and Devotions
2. Walk around inside of playground, then 25 jumping jacks, 30 sit ups, 10 push ups.
3. Math Quiz
4.  Get Computers
5.  10 minutes of Mavis Beacon
6.  Type out spelling words and definitions (crossword or list)
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/CrissCrossSetupForm.asp
7.  Journal
8.  Science - such amazing, interesting websites having to do with chemistry!  Check these ones out:
*This one is used with the sheet you need to fill out:  http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_intro.html
*http://zonalandeducation.com/mstm/physics/mechanics/energy/heatAndTemperature/changesOfPhase/changeOfState.html
*http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/topics/54a.html
*http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/balloon/science/density/fillingsans.html
*http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/states_of_matter/
*http://particleadventure.org/
 Badminton Tournament
It's going to be a great day!!!

January 9th to January 13th

Welcome to the first full week of school in 2012!!!  Isn't it wonderful to be part of a such a wonderful class!  You guys are a blast to teach and I love each of you!  Who remembers when this picture was taken?  You all look pretty sleepy to me. 

There is never a dull moment around here, is there?  Check out the postings Mr. Kelly put on the Heritage Facebook site:  https://www.facebook.com/#!/HeritageChristianSchool  (I'm not saying a thing.......are you???) 

Lots of academic work to accomplish this week.  Lots of announcements too of great things to look forward to:   Annual Spelling Bee
       Workshops on Friday, January 27th afternoon
       Badminton Tournament - then new unit on Gymnastics!! 
       School Team Basketball - GO SAINTS!!!!!
        FSA's  (whoo hoo!)
        Art Projects and Presentations

We don't have the computers today because Mr. Porteous is using them for FSA testing.  But don't worry, we will have them for Wednesday and Friday. 

Here's the agenda for today:
Announcements and Devotions    HOMEWORK SHEET JANUARY 9TH  to 13TH
Daily Physical Activity - Walk
Math - Word Problem Booklets
Recess
Math - Word Problem Booklets
Lunch
Silent Reading
Art Project work and Social Studies Reading
Recess
Art |Project Work and Social Studies Reading
     

Happy New Year!!

Welcome back!


I would love to hear some of your stories from Christmas holidays. Unfortunately we don't have time to HEAR from everybody, but we do have time to READ something from everybody. 

Please complete the sheet I'm about to pass out to each of you.  After we have completed it, we will place it on our tables and walk around and read everyone's.  Afterward, we will put them up on the back bulletin board.
 We will have 30 minutes to do this as that is how long it took me to do mine.  Be sure to use pencil crayon to add colour and vibrancy to your work.  You will get marks for Art class for this.


We have many things to look forward to this month.

Spelling Bee - Wednesday, January 18th!  We will have our in-class qualification test on Friday, January13th!