Orange Shirt Day

After reading The Orange Shirt Story, each student chose a colour, a symbol and an image to represent the text.

Later on in the year students will participate in a more in-depth exploration of residential schools.

This week in 209!

Here's what we'll be working on this week:

Mathematiques: working with factors, discussing mental math strategies to double a number.

Francais: daily reading, working with verbs & grammar, journal writing, starting a creative writing project.

English Language Arts: daily reading, read aloud, impromptu speeches, writing Haiku.

Sciences de la nature: discussing living things and how to classify them.

Sciences Humaines: discussing Canadian identity and Canadian immigration of the past.

Terry Fox Day!

Here we are before heading out for our Terry Fox Walk and Run!

From the Math Department...

This morning we learned about factors and then practiced finding all the factors of a number.

Reminder!

Remember: tomorrow is the Terry Fox Run at Ecole Ness!

Students should be dressed appropriately and prepared to walk or run. Also, students should remember to wear Ness team colours (green, yellow and black).

Remember your 2 dollar donation: bring a toonie for Terry!

Science Project!

It's time for our first Science Design Process!

Here's a quick rundown of what students have to do:
-Invent a planet with at least 16 aliens
-Design a dichotomous key to classify all of the aliens
-Name and describe each final category on the dichotomous key, giving examples.

**The representation of the planet and aliens can take any number of forms: a poster, a drawing, a collage, a diorama, etc.
**The final project must also include the dichotomous key and the category descriptions, written, of course, in beautiful French.

Students will have class time this week to work. The balance of the project will be completed at home.

Students have a rough copy (please see below), including all of the details of the project and a rubric showing how the final project will be marked. This rough copy must be handed in along with the final project.

The final project will be due October 8th.

Banned Books Week

This week is Banned Books Week, which is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. It spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas.

Today in class we read two of the books that have been challenged in the past and then discussed why they might be on the banned books list.