Happy Monday!!

Good morning people!  

It's a Monday!  Mondays can be tough.  It is especially difficult when you are inside when you want to be outside.  Maybe you had a busy weekend celebrating your mothers and you really just want to be in your beds catching a few extra zzzzz's .  Well too bad!  You are here and we are going to have a great day!  Let's work hard this morning and then enjoy some Flag Football and electives in the afternoon.  

So, I actually worked hard this weekend trying to get all caught up on grading your papers and getting marks into students achieve.  It would be a good idea to go and check students achieve to see if there is anything you are missing there.  Check on any low marks and ask to do retests on anything that seems to require it.  Remember, however, that I don't nag you about retests or missed work.  That's your responsibility.  It's all there to see on students achieve.  You just need to learn to use this tool.  This is the same tool that is used in Grade 8  through 12.  We are blessed to have it because it really is a fantastic communication device for marks.  

Here are some people who maybe need to go and double check on their IXL Integer marks because they appeared lower than I think you would like: 

Gr. 7 D. 1 - 6 
Brian 

Gr. 7 E. 1 and 3 
Anika, Christianna, Colton, Yasha, Zach, Mason, Lorien, Simon 

Vocabulary Tests #5
*** I took off a mark if you were making consistent punctuation and capitalization errors.  
If you are missing past Vocabulary Tests, I changed ABSENCES to NHI's (Mark!!) 

 Social Studies 
Writing on the Wall - Lauren, Mark, Mason 

I want to be able to do a writing conference with every one of you over your short story.  I just don't know of a better way to receive encouragement and counsel on writing than a personal conference with me.  So, this means that we will all need to work together on holding each other accountable to staying on task and keeping the noise level down so that we can have conferences at the orange table.  I will be starting a list of names on the white board, and you can add to it as you feel ready to come for a conference.  

Please do these 3 tasks and then you can go on to the Monday Morning Choices: 

* 10 minutes of typing
* 10 minutes of readtheory.org
* IXL.com - Gr. 3 E.2 - Multiplication Facts to 12 (Try and get a score under 2 minutes) 


Monday Morning Choices 

* work on your story
* more typingclub.com and typingtest.com 
* journal 
* get caught up on missing work or study/do retests
* free read or more readtheory.com
* work on your geology lapbook 
* study for the Geology Matching Quiz on Thursday (someone should make a Quizlet)