Cardboard Carnival 2016 Video

I was so proud of you all!  Here is the youtube video I made of our awesome Cardboard Carnival:

I have given you each a mark for your participation in the Carnival under HACE.   I did say it was optional, but everyone ended up helping in some way.  If you don't like your mark, I will remove it and just put "excused". 

This is the 3rd time I have helped a class put together something like this and I have learned that it is one of the best projects a class can be involved in.  Why?  Well, it accomplishes so many things that school is supposed to teach you.  These are the main skills I think you learn or practice when you participate in a Cardboard Carnival:

Leadership
Innovation (Imagination,Creation,Play)
Cooperation
Community Service

You guys ROCKED IT and I know you made many, many children very happy!  

Information on Pines Bible Camp

Dear Parents & Guardians of Grade 7&8 Students!

We are pleased to announce our Year End field trip is just around the corner.

In the quickest version I can give you:

Who:     Grade 7 & 8 students

What:    Year End Overnight Field Trip

Where:  Pines Bible Camp near Grand Forks, BC (www.pinesbiblecamp.com)

When:   Leaving Thursday, June 2nd at 8:30am - Returning Friday, June 3^rd between 3-3:30pm

Cost:    $50 per student

What to Bring:

   ~ Bag Lunch for the bus ride Thursday

   ~ Sleeping Bag & Pillow

   ~ Rain Jacket

   ~ Sturdy Footwear

   ~ Money for concession (if desired)

What Not To Bring:

   ~ Headphones of any sort

   ~ Valuables

As always, we look forward to 100% participation on this trip.  Should money be a reason your child can not join us then please communicate with me.  I will arrange something with you so we can have your child join us.

Will you begin praying with and for us now for a powerful time at camp with God? 

Thanks, and I look forward to this time at camp!

Take care,

Paul Kelly

Principal of Secondary

Heritage Christian School

250.862.2377 ext 327

Blog: www.eduglean.com

Twitter: @paulkellybc

Skype: paulkellybc

HCS Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/heritagechristianschool

Gr. 7 Homework and Announcements Tuesday, May 24th to Friday, May 27th

Grade 7 Homework Sheet

Tuesday, May 24^th to Friday, May 27^th

Spelling Bee:  Wednesday, May 25^th at 12:35.  In grade 7, Logan Sloan is our representative.  Go Logan!

Grade 7/8 Field Trip to Pines Bible Camp on June 2,3 – Please see the attachment for more information. 

Weekly Challenge: It’s the CHOICE CHALLENGE this week.  Every day we need to make 3 specific better choices and record them.  For example, turning down a dessert, choosing to play with a younger sibling instead of saying, “No,”, offering to help your Mom or Dad with something that you normally wouldn’t – eg. carrying groceries, doing an extra chore.  We will discuss this in class, but it’s basically just making 3 great choices a day that are different than what you might usually default to. 

Math:  Cartesian Plane Quiz on Wednesday (review the booklet that you did with Mr. Hannem) 

Science: We will be working on building our study sheet of chemistry terms for a short quiz on Monday, May 30^th. 

Social Studies: We are finishing off any Greece Projects that have still not been presented.

 

English:  Narrative writing beginning this week.  :)

***** Some students are choosing to be part of a Cardboard Carnival that will be presented to some of the primary classes on Friday.  If your child is one who is excited about this, please help support it by helping get cardboard from local stores such as the Brick, Costco, etc.  If you want to check out the wonderful story that was the inspiration for this, see here – it is called Caine’s Arcade  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U

Chemistry Terms for Chapter Test on Monday, May 30th

Chemistry Test Terms 

Monday, May 30th 

The test will consist of some fill in the blank and short answer.  You can review your notes from the videos we watched, the lab we did and the work you did with Mr. Kuchma. 

You can find all the definitions in the back of your Science textbook.  I do NOT advise you just "googling" them. 

Boiling point
Condensation
Chemical Change
Density
Element
Evaporation
Freezing or solidification
Freezing point
Gas
Liquid
Mass
Matter
Melting
Melting point
Physical Change
Property
Reversible Change
Solid
State
Sublimation
Volume

Hola Grade 7!   

Boy am I glad to be back!  Don’t get me wrong – it was wonderful being with the grade 12’s in Mexico, and God was so good and faithful in countless ways there, but just like Dorothy says in the Wizard of Oz:

I hope you liked the video I sent you after the first week.  Now that I am back in the classroom, I can see that we will need to take stock of what went on while I was gone and establish what we need to do to successfully complete this grade 7 year of yours. 

So, please help me out by answering in complete sentences all the questions on this survey.  When you hand it in, you will get to pick a Mexican pen out of the box.  When everyone has a pen, then you can trade for another one if you don’t like the pen you got.  Every single one of them is hand made in Mexico and completely unique.  I bought 10 extra so we’d have some trading room. 

Copy and paste the following questions into google docs and then share it with me.

Thanks!

Two Week Evaluation while Mrs. R was with GCP

1.  How have you been personally?  (any illnesses, prayer requests or interesting or exciting events to report to me about your life?)  

2.  On a scale of 1 to 10 (1= worst, 10= best), how are you doing physically?

3.  1 to 10 – How are you doing emotionally?

4.  1 to 10 – How are you doing relationally with everybody in the class?

5.  1 to 10 – How did you personally behave as a student for Mr. Hannem?

6.  1 to 10 – In your opinion, how did the class as a whole behave for Mr. Hannem?

7.   How were devotions?  What is one thing you learned/remembered from devo’s or is there something God showed you through the devo’s?

   

8.   How was DPA?  Did you go out and come in with the class with a good attitude?

9. Please tell me what you did in Math?  Do you understand the Math that he taught?  Explain.

10.  Did you study for the Spelling and Vocabulary test?  How did you do?

11.  What did you do in the 2 chapel periods? 

12.  How was Talent Chapel? 

13.  How was the Ice Cream party?

14.  How were the Greece Projects?  How did yours turn out?  Whose besides your own did you think was really good?  Why?

15.  How was P.E.?  What did you do?  Did you participate well?  How was your attitude?

16.  How was the Science Lab that Mr. Kuchma did?  What did you learn? 

17.  Please tell me anything else you feel I should know about how things went while I was away that is not covered in these questions.  

18.  What was a highlight and a low light of the last 2 weeks? 

A Message from Mrs. Robideau in Mexico

Hello to Everyone!

Happy Monday!  Hope all is well in Kelowna!  The GCP trip is going super well.  I prepared a little video message for you.  Here it is: