Happy New Year and Welcome Back!!

   Grade 7 Homework Sheet

 Monday January 4^th to Friday, January 8^th

 

Happy New Year!! I sincerely hope that your Christmas break was a refreshing, restful time spent with family and friends and the Lord. I had a wonderful holiday and am ready and eager to return to the classroom where every day is one filled with the adventure of growing and learning together. 

KCC Relate Youth – Life Groups at 7:00 p.m. Girls at the Robideau house and Boys in the Fellowship Room at KCC. 

 

Christmas Homework Booklets:  Remember this? “I have created a Christmas Homework Booklet with the intention that children who are “bored” over the holidays will have something to keep their minds stimulated. I don’t mean for it to add extra stress on families who may already be stressed. J Students will be given a completion mark out of 10 for HACE when they return on Jan. 4^th, but I will just give an “excused” in students achieve for those students who return the booklet with a note from their parents stating that they were too busy or unable to complete it.  (Parents could also email me.) “  

Spelling and Vocabulary Set #3 (Quiz on Friday morning)

1.  versatile (adj) able to be used in many different ways    A pencil is a versatile object because it can be used to write with or poke your friend with.	6.  desolate (adj) unhappy, wretched, despairing and miserable   Kylo Ren seems desolate.
2.  indomitable (adj) unconquerable, impossible to defeat  Mrs. R is an indomitable badminton player.	7.  writhe (verb) to twist or squirm as if in pain The mouse writhed in pain after being bitten by the snake.
3.  despicable (adj) worth of contempt, disgraceful, shameful, appalling  It turns out that Gru was not as despicable as he thought he was.	8.  unkempt  (adj) messy and neglected Is your bedroom unkempt?
4.  impromptu (adj) done spontaneously, without preparation, in an unrehearsed way Everyone gave an impromptu report on  his/her Christmas holidays.	9.  inoculate (verb)  to protect somebody against disease  When you were a baby, you were inoculated to prevent  you from getting diseases such as polio.
5.  vintage (adj) something classic recognized as being of high quality and lasting appeal You can sometimes find vintage clothing at Value Village.	10.  protruding (verb) to stick out from the surrounding The sliver was protruding from Brett’s finger and so Daniel was able to pull it out.

Weekly Challenge – Did anyone receive a devotional book for Christmas?  Do some of you own one that you have never read?  Our challenge for the next week is to read a devotional from a book every day.  If you don’t have one, I have some I could lend you.  The library also has some.  You could use the teen devotional website we have listed on the left hand side of our classroom blog.  If you can’t find a book, how about 10 minutes of Scripture reading followed by prayer.  If you have a daily family devotional time, you may count that.  The key here is to give God some of your personal time each day – reading His word and praying.  As a discipline, I would like you to spend a minimum of 10 minutes on this each day.

 

What’s Ahead in 2016?

·        January will be a month of preparing and practicing for the Foundational Skills Assessment that will take place during the days of February 15^th, 16^th and 17^th.  Please try not to make any appointments for your child during this time. 

·        Starting the first week of February, the grade 7’s will be joining with the grade 8’s and 9’s in Electives.  This will change our schedule a little bit in that these classes take place every second day from 1:45 to 3:00 on the Day 1/Day 2 High School schedule.  Mr. Kelly will have elective sheets ready to hand out to the grade 7’s to make their selections by the last week of January.