Leaflets

• We are counting down to a Christmas break and especially Christmas! May God bless you and your family during the holidays!
• We have a busy week of practices, culminating in a matinee and evening performance on Thursday. We look forward to seeing you there! More details in the General section!
• No Memory Work
• Bible: The Gospels – Jesus’ Ministry
• Math: Subtraction strategies wrap up
• Socials: What is Community?
• Language Arts: (MM): I will not be sending home any reading material this week. I will begin again in January. Have a wonderful Christmas celebration!
• Show and Tell every Tuesday and Thursday. Feel free to send pictures through email for show and tell!

• With Christmas break just a week away, we’re practicing hard for our Christmas concert on Thursday and looking forward to Comfy Day on Friday to wrap up the week! Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a joyful holiday season!
• Memory Work: “Sing We the Song of Emmanuel” (vs 3) by Keith and Kristyn, due Friday, December 20.
• Bible: We're learning about Joseph’s brothers' visit to Egypt, showing God's plan to reunite their family and provide during the famine.
• Writing: Students are writing their creative stories! They will self-edit and peer-edit, checking to ensure their stories make sense and include enough vivid details.
• Reading: Readers Theater - Practicing enunciation when speaking.
• Math: Geometry Towns!
• Socials: Students are completing their projects and sharing their learning about Indigenous groups through class presentations.

• And just like that it is the last week before Christmas holidays! We have an exciting week ahead as we gear up for our Christmas concert on Thursday evening as well as wrap up a few of our units in advance of the end of our calendar year. We also have a Comfy Day to look forward to this week Friday in addition to general Christmas excitement!
• Memory Work: No Memory Work this week, just practicing Christmas concert songs!
• Bible: This week in Bible we will be wrapping up our short unit all about King Solomon.
• Math: Our focus in Math this week will be on long division. We will learn this skill Monday and practice it throughout the week as we complete our unit problem.
• Social Studies: Given that our Social Studies unit on the Vikings has come to an end, this week we will start our new unit on the Age of Exploration. It will just be an introduction to get us excited for all we will be learning in the new year.
• Science: Continuing in our unit all about the Earth and its motions, this week we will debrief how the Earth’s revolution affects the seasons.
• ELA: We will continue reading and working with our novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes this week. In Writing we will be writing another paragraph, this time all about our favourite Christmas memories.
• Reading Ninjas are due today! As always, thank you again for your support! We will not be preparing a new Reading Ninjas log this week (we will do that in the new year) but I encourage the students to keep up their great reading habits also on Christmas break.
• Music (NS): Wooohooo! We are so excited to share what we've been working on and to worship with you at our concerts on Thursday! Students should be practicing "Sing We Now Of Christmas" and serenading their families with any other lovely tunes on their recorders 😉.
• P.E: It is our last week of Basketball this week!

• One more week to go! Hope to you at Thursday concert!
• We wish you God’s blessing during the Christmas Season!
• Bible: The Unclean Spirit Cast Out
• Memory Work: All the Songs for the Christmas Program
• Reading: Gentle Ben - One-pager – Due on Thursday
• Math (LSVS): Long Division – TEST on Wednesday
• Science: Forestry and Water
• Writing: Developing Voice in our writing
• Math (NV): Financial Literacy with a focus on counting and making change
• Socials: Non-sustainable resource test on Tuesday, Dec. 17. Review package went home last Friday

• French (SP): A review Kahoot of what we have learned so far this term!

• Music (NS): We are working on our Christmas Program songs on the ukulele: Noel, Sing We the Song of Emmanuel (the Gloria).

• We’re almost at the end! Another fun week planned with caroling singing at Harrison Pointe today (1:15-2:15 pm), a comfy day and class gift exchange on Friday. We’re also looking forward to the K-5 Christmas concert later this week. Just a reminder that Middle School students should be sitting with parents, not their classmates to ensure everyone can enjoy the performance. 🙂 Thanks! Natalie (Ms. H) and I wish you a wonderful, blessed Christmas season and a Happy New Year! 🙂
• Memory Work: We’re taking a break from memory work until the musical is done.
• Bible: Dream Booklets will be due Thursday.
• Math (DJ): This week we will be focusing on Order of Operations (no exponents).
• Socials: This week, we’ll be previewing January’s government unit - getting our brains thinking ahead to a campaign!
• Science (KN): Classifying mixtures lab on Tuesday and some fun with mixtures on Thursday!
• French: Test on Thursday. Students have been studying hard using their pink review sheet and playing Blookets. All review materials are posted in our French Google Classroom.
• Art: Wrapping up a few projects, making some cards for the seniors, and door decorating!
• Music (NS): We are finishing watching “The Sound of Music”.
• PE (SP): We will play some floor hockey, and there will be some opportunity for students to choose our activities!

• We’re almost at the end! Another fun week planned with caroling singing at Harrison Pointe today (1:15-2:15 pm), a comfy day and class gift exchange on Friday. We’re also looking forward to the K-5 Christmas concert later this week. Just a reminder that Middle School students should be sitting with parents, not their classmates to ensure everyone can enjoy the performance. :) Thanks! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas from all of us in grade 6B!
• Memory Work:
• Bible: Completing our Dream Booklets and continuing the life of Joseph
• Math (DJ): This week we will be focusing on Order of Operations (no exponents).
• Socials (NK): This week, we’ll be previewing January’s government unit - getting our brains thinking ahead to a campaign!
• Science (KN): Classifying mixtures lab on Tuesday and some fun with mixtures on Thursday!
• French (NK): Test on Thursday. Students have been studying hard using their pink review sheet and playing Blookets. All review materials are posted in our French Google Classroom.
• Art: Making cards for seniors, and wrapping up other projects.
• Music (NS): We are finishing watching “The Sound of Music”.
• PE (SP): We will play some floor hockey, and there will be some opportunity for students to choose our activities!

• What a success Market Day was this past week! Thank you so much for all of your support and hard work, I know that there is a lot that happens behind the scenes at home! This week is another busy and fun week! On Thursday, we will be serving lunch to the seniors following the morning Christmas concert. Thank you to everyone who is helping to make this lunch happen! Just a reminder that Middle School students who come to the evening performance should be sitting with parents, not their classmates to ensure everyone can enjoy the performance. :) Then on Friday we have comfy day and our Secret Santa!
• Memory Work: No memory work this week.
• Bible: We continue to study the life of King David while highlighting how he is a righteous king, yet one who is sinful and cannot be the Messiah.
• English: Students are working on the production of a final project connected to A Wrinkle in Time. On Friday, we will watch the movie adaptation.
• Math: The class is working in pairs to create games focused on decimals and fractions. These should be done by Friday, so that students can play the games created by their peers.
• Science (NS): Diving into sustainability and creating a sustainable city.
• Socials: Our ABC religion books have been completed and bound. The hard work put into these projects was certainly evident! This week we look at art as a component of ancient civilization culture.
• French (AV): We will have our unit 2 test this Tuesday!
• Music (NS): On Tuesday, Dec. 17, we will have our SHOW AND SHARE! Students are welcome to prepare a solo/group piece to share with the class!
• PE (SS): Basketball - 4 v 4

• Thanks for all your support for Market Day! There is a lot of work done at home, and the time and effort it takes to make the day the success that it was does not go unnoticed and is very much appreciated!
• One more week of final activities and wrapping things up! On Friday we hope to have a gift exchange. For this, students are asked to bring in a $10-$15 gift which includes socks to be used as the wrapping paper..
• Wishing you all a blessed Christmas and a relaxing break!
• Current Events: Jane (Tuesday); Quinn (Wednesday); Travis (Thursday)
• Bible: This week we will be looking at Matthew’s purpose of writing - that Jesus is the fulfilment of the Old Testament.
• English (NK): This week, we will finish the reading portion of our short stories unit. There will be a test on Friday. Review materials are available on Google Classroom as early as Monday.
• Math: Continuing our work on our Pythagorean Spiral Project. Due Thursday.
• Science: Epidemic/Pandemic Project. Due Friday.
• Socials (KN): This week we are wrapping up our Portrait of a Feudal Character assignment. These are due on Thursday. I hope to introduce the shield assignment on Thursday also.
• French (AV): We will have our unit 2 test this Tuesday!
• Music (NS): On Friday, Dec.20, we will have our SHOW AND SHARE! Students are welcome to prepare a solo/group piece to share with the class!
• PE (SS): Basketball - 4 v 4

Grade 8 Girls Basketball

• Tuesday, Dec 17 | AWAY Game @ Brookswood Secondary | 3:15 PM
• Thursday, Dec 19 | AWAY Game @ D.W. Poppy | 3:15 PM

Grade 8 Boys Basketball

• Monday, Dec 16 | Practice - CCES Gym | 3:00-5:00 PM
• Wednesday, Dec 18 | HOME Game @ CCHS | 3:15 PM